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Purchase, Ny, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

Integrating Fin-Tech acquisitions into the Mastercard ecosystem, from the tech components to the DevOps workflows. Platforms include those owned by multiple companies under Priceless systems and Global Open Banking initiative.Providing technical expertise and assistance in bridging the architectural and procedural gaps between AWS cloud native companies and the on-prem corporate environment to produce efficient hybrid cloud systems.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, safeguarding, and automating every layer of the company’s technical stack, from racking and servicing physical machines in collocated data centers, to managing system patching and software deployments, to evangelizing DevOps and automation best practices and new technologies throughout the development and operational lifecycle.Operated as the company’s AWS Cloud Architect, designing and implementing pMD’s cloud strategy from the ground up. Orchestrated and oversaw the migration of critical on-prem infrastructure components to cloud-managed solutions, such as S3, SQS, Elasticache (Redis), RDS (MySQL), and EKS (Kubernetes).Brought CI/CD, deployment automation, and application/infrastructure/log monitoring to pMD’s technical stack. Lead the organization by teaching Configuration Management best practices, introducing new tooling such as Docker Kubernetes, and Bazel, and providing subject matter expertise on all segments of DevOps and SRE within the company.

St Louis, Mo, Us

Pioneered the rapid establishment of automated tooling, infrastructure, and delivery workflows, paving the way for DevOps transformation throughout the Panera Bread technology team.Led cross-functional teams of engineers on deployment initiatives to implement and leverage Chef for in-house datacenter (VMWare), Docker/Kubernetes for public cloud (GCP), and Habitat for edge compute within restaurants (bare metal). Personally architected technical details of data center and edge compute strategies, overseeing over 1,000 active nodes.Developed core Jenkins libraries and automation pipelines that provided the foundation for consistent, automated, and scalable build, delivery, monitoring, and reliability patterns.Represented the technical face of the DevOps movement at Panera, acting as a DevOps and SRE evangelist and consulting with stakeholders and automation customers to streamline onboarding, share best practices, address challenges, and plan future enhancements.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Campaigned for and pioneered automated compliance scans for infrastructure code pipelines, building the first infrastructure code compliance scanning and audit pipeline in the company and codifying Mastercard’s Unix Security Standards in Inspec. Once complete, the compliance workflows were adopted by the company as standard practice.Architected and built Mastercard’s Chef object pipeline, a workflow for safely promoting content using Chef Server and delegating control of specific Chef components to teams throughout the company.Oversaw, managed, and supported hundreds of Chef-modeled PaaS nodes used for development and regression testing as the team lead overseeing automation, CI/CD, and pipeline architecture.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Designed and built Chef-based continuous delivery pipelines for Mastercard’s Safety Net Fraud Detection rollout, establishing protocols for its use, maintenance, and growth.Practiced DevOps concepts as the team’s lead Chef developer, responsible for implementing new features, maintaining the integrity of our infrastructure as code, and bundling deployments using Packer for use on VMs or Docker containers.Innovated automated solutions using internal VMware-based cloud infrastructure and bare metal hardware alike, consulting regularly with the cloud and services teams to collaborate on system expansion and beta test new company offerings.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Reverse-engineered hand-built platforms for Mastercard’s fraud detection system and modeled them using Chef, producing the first ever full-stack PaaS in Mastercard and allowing development teams on-demand access via one-click deploymentsRealized cost savings to the Fraud Systems group by migrating all development and testing workloads to our internal cloud PaaS and decommissioning bare metal nodes.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Laid foundation for porting Mastercard’s fraud detection engine to a virtualized, cloud-deployable environment, allowing for more agile development. Received invitation back as a Level II Software Engineer post-graduation.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Developed tooling in Java used for in-house testing as a member of the Automated Testing Tooling Development team, working in a two-week cycle scrum agile development patterns. Received invitation back to join the team post-graduation.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science