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Burlington, North Carolina, Us

Formerly @ Invitae (Acquired by Labcorp 2024) - Supported an internal Kubernetes platform comprising of 20 clusters, including 7 production environments maintaining optimal uptime and stability.- Developed and integrated cluster validation tests into a Jenkins pipeline, improving automated deployment reliability and reducing human intervention during production releases.- Integrated Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), enabling the platform to automatically scale applications based on real-time workloads, optimizing performance and resource utilization.- Led PodSecurityPolicies deprecations ensuring platform security and seamless upgrades to Kubernetes 1.25 without service disruptions.

London , London, Gb

- Lead CRE consultant for crypto unicorn client and S&P 500 company architecting and implementing end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles- Built developer preview environments in AWS leveraging Kubernetes integrating Helm charts and tools such as eksctl, Terraform, GitHub actions, Ruby, kind, and Docker- Delivered an ‘Introduction to Kubernetes’ seminar at the 2022 All Things Open Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina- Created CI/CD pipelines leveraging Tekton, Terraform and Weave GitOps Enterprise

Reston, Va, Us

- Spearheaded commercialization effort of an IR&D project, leading a team in the Agile development cycle.- Designed a Microservice application with Java, React, PostgreSQL, Docker containers and Kubernetes.- Integrated open source applications(Metabase, Gitlab, Fluentd, Elasticsearch,Sonarqube) into a Microservice application.- Created Jenkins pipelines (CI/CD) leveraging Helm charts for repeatable, resilient, and reliable deployments.- Created and managed a Kubernetes cluster for the development usage of 14 developers.

Reston, Va, Us

- Continued prototype development of IR&D project with Java, Javascript, PostgreSQL.- Supported a Cloud migration of an on-prem Java application into a distributed AWS Elastic Beanstalk application integrating AWS SQS and S3 to support data transfers.

Reston, Va, Us

- Supported a high visibility project delivered to the U.S Navy using technologies including C#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Javascript/JQuery, KendoUI, HTML, CSS.- Contributed software engineering expertise for an IR&D product involving AWS and Microsoft Azure and presented to C-Suite executives.- Participated in Agile/Scrum development cycles

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Providing students with guidance in their approach to system and algorithm analysis. Maintaining and submitting student grades and records. Facilitated group discussion in analysis of big-O notation, simple graph theory and probability.

Turned Photoshop website mock-ups into actual HTML and CSS designs. Assigned to understand the structure of the web application written using Java, JSP, Struts, HTML and CSS. Integrated third-party software, Mendeley and Endnote into the web application