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• 20+ years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems.• Took technical leadership building highly secure cloud infrastructure with code.• Created deployment pipelines to increase the flow, quality and security of software from engineering teams.• Promoted DevOps techniques to achieve high flow and safe system of work.• Worked closely with administration teams solving production alerts, narrowing root cause analysis through the utilization baseline instrumentation, real-time monitoring, and component smoke tests.• Independently invented new and creative ways to graphically display production system health from log and SQL data sources.• Deployed version control and continuous integration systems.• Working knowledge of software engineering methodologies including Agile, Scrum, and Lean.• Professional full-stack application development experience writing desktop and web GUIs, backend APIs and data tier CRUD, queueing and reporting.• Mastery of operating system administration: including the productive use of piped command line utilities and the packaging of scripts for others to use.• Strong verbal and written communication skills expressed in meetings, documentation, and code comments.• Proven production environment security and availability record; resulting from strict reliability engineering and system maintenance discipline.• Knowledge of networking and all the protocols and devices needed to make distributed systems work.• An obsession with automation resulting in clean, consistent, and repeatable systems.

Listed skills include Sql, Agile Methodologies, Infrastructure, It Management, and 52 others.