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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

● Migrated most resource-intensive (expensive) component of a cloud native app to bare-metal hardware for a cost savings of ~75%. Then of the services that remained on the cloud, I moved all the stateless services to a node pool of pre-emptible instances for a costs savings of ~67%.● Responsible for the design, configuration and maintenance of the infrastructure throughLinux administration and system automation.● Refine processes, design and implement new automated software systems and tools toimprove efficiency, scalability, reliability and capabilities.● Promptly respond to issues providing timely troubleshooting for network & infrastructureproblems. Identify, triage and resolve security and performance issues across the full stackand document findings to educate future decisions.● Maintain software and tools, monitor and ensure the highest level of visibility on systemhealth and gain insight on performance.

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

● Created procedure to automate and parallelize repurposing a variety of servers with PXE, Kickstart, and Ansible. The processing time for a single server was about 20 minutes, this improvement allowed us to do 100 servers simultaneously. ● Configured monitoring and log aggregation software with custom metrics and alerts.● Automated crash dump reporting for game developers.● Created a Python bot in Slack to perform game administrative tasks like updating server builds, locking servers, and gathering some quick information.

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

Hired to deploy and operate the server infrastructure for an online game beforebecoming the SME and primary liaison between our Network Operations department and that 3rd party development studio. Supported that studio remotely as a DevOps engineer in addition to my regular job. Eventually assigned to a small team responsible for most of the infrastructure at our company (2019).● Deployed and administered server infrastructure for online games.● Automated and parallelized process of reimaging and provisioning servers between game titles. ● Migrated and updated custom internal services including CMS used by Customer Service, application monitoring, and tools to send in-game broadcasts.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

● Provided quality control tests in-process at a high volume manufacturing plant producing composites for the aerospace industry. ● Sampled and performed analytic tests including FTIR spectroscopy, rheometry, and specific gravity. ● Utilized a wide variety of equipment and hand tools.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Work involved the extraction of a trace mineral from 66 million year old KT boundary clay for further study. Traveled to collect clay from locations published in scientific journals. Researched and conferred with experts to develop separation procedure. Used specialized equipment and hazardous chemicals to pulverize and digest rock samples. Analyzed samples with scanning electron microscope (SEM) using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX).Maintained meticulous documentation. Created a system to keep track of each batch of clay and used the data for statistical analysis. Altered procedure to separate digested rock samples by density with heavy liquid and improved efficiency of process. Gave group presentations and explained project to others.

Associate’S Degree, Natural Sciences

Associate’S Degree, Mathematics