Joel Wilson Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California, Us

(in addition to duties performed in previous role)- lead a small, tight-knit team of 4 engineers in supporting and building out cloud and automation solutions for internal and external customers- mentored junior engineers on a daily basis in technologies such as terraform, lambdas, docker, and AWS services- worked hands-on every day in a technical role- lead efforts to migrate IIS hosted .NET 6 on EC2 to Linux containers running on ECS Fargate- lead efforts to automate the build-out of EC2 AMIs and deployment to auto-scaling groups- as the result of acquiring two separate companies, absorbed two entirely separate AWS organizations under the DevOps team- participated in annual SOC II Type 2 audits

El Segundo, California, Us

- managed and supported AWS infrastructure hosting a SaaS product in 13 logical environments used by hundreds of external companies- implemented an AWS multi-account strategy to host a migrated software stack used by many fortune 500 companies- rebuilt 7 logical environments utilizing AWS industry best practices, IaC, and improved security- saved over $500k annually by regularly reviewing AWS spend- managed security for all AWS resources including IAM, SSO, Active Directory, security appliances, IDS, WAFs, NACLs, security groups, log review, anti-virus, and patching lifecycles- implemented comprehensive monitoring of 250+ AWS and custom application resources utilizing custom metrics and 1,000+ custom CloudWatch alarms- selected and worked with a penetration testing firm for annual penetration tests- participated in annual SOC2 audits as the point of contact for AWS systems and infrastructure, security, and related policies and procedures- created a custom healthcheck application to automatically report on EC2 instance health- introduced a cross-region backup strategy for AWS resources to support disaster recovery- created and maintained a customer-facing status page utilizing automated checks- improved application email delivery, reliability, and security by implementing DMARC, DKIM, and SPF- maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for all environments- built Systems Manager automation documents for routine automation tasks- maintained a custom docker image containing CLI tools for local devops development- wrote lambdas for custom devops and application uses- maintained infrastructure as code (Terraform and Ansible)- managed a small team (2 people) split between LA and London

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Built and maintained the infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a new multi-million-dollar greenfield application to replace legacy applications serving thousands of customers (ECS, Fargate, Docker, RDS, Jenkins).- Migrated dozens of .NET and Classic ASP sites/services serving millions of pages per month hosted on 100+ physical and virtual servers to AWS. This migration included the dev, test, and production environments and their associated CI/CD systems (Jenkins & Cruise Control).- Wrote, tested, and deployed Chef recipes to automate the setup of Windows and Linux instances in AWS OpsWorks, allowing for easy scaling of Windows and Linux EC2 instances.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Managed hundreds of servers running dev, test, prod environments and automated the collection of configuration information of all servers in preparation for their migration to AWS.- Refactored dozens of release scripts consisting of 5k+ lines of code to a single type-safe and concise F# script of around 700 lines.- Executed and troubleshooted software releases (blue/green deployment) and maintained the release process, including CI/CD job configurations (Cruise Control, Jenkins) and scripts (PowerShell, F#, batch).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

- Created a photo upload, retrieval, edit, and review system serving tens of thousands of photos and photo edits per day, reducing the amount of manual work required, improving the quality of photos, and providing more capabilities to external users. Back-end APIs were load-tested using gatling.- Developed, and maintained new and existing features for dozens of Classic ASP and .NET 4+ sites and services serving millions of requests per month around the world.- Designed and implemented a proof-of-concept release management and continuous integration system built on Chef, Vagrant (development), AWS, Jenkins, and Rake.

- Lead the adoption of the Agile/Scrum methodology and TDD in a traditionally waterfall environment.- Installed and configured the first Continuous Integration system (Jenkins) to build, run tests, and deploy software projects.- Developed software to replace a legacy DOS scheduling system with a modern .NET client and server (C#, WPF/MVVM, WCF).- Provided maintenance and support for users of a custom weigh and price labeling application (Visual Basic).

- Administered SAP security (users and roles), active directory, PayBase, MetaViewer, and SharePoint security.- Wrote programs to parse forms, store them in a SQLite database, and provided a GUI for searches, saving 1-2 hours of work per day (Python).- Built an automated reporting system (Python) for increasing visibility into the internal security request processes.- Scripted automatic security vulnerability scans of internal servers (PowerShell, nmap).Maintained and supported the fosterfarms.com website.

- Provided technical support for thousands of internal users.- Wrote a PowerShell script to scan and gather info on thousands of internal desktop PCs.- Developed a graphical system administration tool (Python) to ease remote troubleshooting.- Configured and repaired warehouse scan guns, performed on-site PC and printer support and repair.

Turlock, Ca, Us

- Provided technical support to faculty and staff regarding computer and email issues, and equipment checkout and deliveries.- Tested equipment in smart classrooms to maintain workability and cleanliness of data projectors, DVD players, and document cameras.