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Port Washington, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Learned from the process of wholesale diamond buying and developed skills in assessing diamond quality with just a loupe, determining the economics of buying a stone, and negotiating price in a changing landscape. Assisted with producing layouts, pairing stones, sorting melee, matching diamonds with mountings, and cataloguing designs.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for the maintenance, review, and introduction of new features for tools serving DigitalOcean's internal Kubernetes infrastructure. These features range from adding new commands to our cli responsible for deployments, to creating new Kubernetes controllers, resources, and services intended to grant developers more flexibility when releasing their code. Primary language used is Golang.Additionally serve as the engineer in charge of guiding the planning, documentation, and (when necessary) user guides for large-scale projects. Frequently interview engineers responsible for a new system or product, sit in on developer discussions, and collect references, which are used to produce project plans that include Agile effort estimates, timelines, feature specifications, and external resource requirements.

Developed Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Delivery tools for the Learnvest, Inc and Northwestern Mutual teams. Maintained tools and systems such as Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, and SonarQube.Singularly developed an application for monitoring and reporting Github organizational activity. Provided support for the entire tech team's application lifecycle.

Greater New York City Area

Developed security policies and encourage cultural buy-in of security procedures. Architected and supported security-focused tools, services, and infrastructure improvements. Specialized in the implementation of statistics-based analytical tools for network logs and security events.Using Hashicorp's Vault, independently developed secure model and client for sharing secrets across the infrastructure. Coded a specialized Knewton API and CLI for application and human interactions, respectively. Granting leased AWS credentials to humans became fully automatic via kva, while services used KVault for automatic provisioning of applications, data transfer, and service-to-service authentication.

New York, New York

Execute security reviews involving threat modeling, vulnerability management, and business logic reviews.Research and develop analytic methods for solving complex security problems using computational geometry, statistical analysis, and natural language processing techniques.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Collected data and developed software to analyze sentiment in online group interactions.

West Chester, Pa

Tutored college student in proof construction, probability, combinatorics, and basic analysis.

Ashland, Nh

Assisted owner in the care and training of 32 racing Siberian huskies for mid-distance sleddog races

Pittsburgh, Pa

Performed a self-directed study of verification methods for hybrid systems, analyzed the dynamics of traffic flow, and provided a protocol for collision avoidance between vehicles during lane change maneuvers.

Graduate Gemologist

B.S., Mathematics