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I am a technical leader that enjoys solving complex problems using best practices throughout the AWS ecosystem. Specializing in DevOps, Automation, Architecture, and Platform Engineering. I have a particular interest in leading teams that create the tooling which enables feature teams to decrease time to market, standardizing those applicationsโ infrastructures to be Secure, Reliable, Scalable, Observable, and Maintainable; using the most Cost Effective methodologies. ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌโข Architected and reviewed the implementation of Internal Developer Platform tools, using AWS Cloud Development Kit (.NET 6.0) and Atlassian Bamboo, that standardize best practices to reduce complexity and cognitive load on feature teams while "๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ต" using GitOps. โข Led the initiative of the migration of companywide microservice architecture from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.1/.NET 6.0 to a Cloud Native Docker container deployment using: AWS ECS, AWS ECS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS CloudWatch, using a mixture of Windows and Linux containers. โข Primary initial point of contact with an incoming team from an acquired technology company to reduce code and infrastructure complexity. This reduced cost when integrating the new technology into existing infrastructure. โข Cultivated the DevOps culture as the company transitioned to Agile. Reduced deployment cycle time from quarterly, complex after-hours deploys to a full CI/CD platform where the company can deploy multiple times a day without fear.โข Defined companywide best practices and was a leader in the migration from monolithic applications to microservice architecture that featured reliability, fault tolerance, and scale. โข Defined, created, led, and architected a team of software engineers that specialized in all things DevOps. โข Responsible for a multi-domain applicationโs Natural Language Processing tooling and FIPS 104 Level 2 Certification. โข Backend Software Engineer working in multiple languages and environments specializing in optimization, threading, and scaling.
Pie Insurance
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- pieinsurance.com
- Employees:
- 410
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Senior Software Engineering ManagerPie InsuranceBoulder, Co, Us
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Senior Manager - Developer ExperiencePie Insurance Aug 2022 - PresentDenver, Colorado, UsIn this position, I am leading two teams with a cohesive vision of enhancing the Developer Experience. The mission of the portfolio is to empower the engineers' ability to deliver value as quickly as possible by identifying and executing on opportunities for Tooling and Automation. Logically, the teams will be broken up into the Developer Tooling & Automation Team and the Quality Platform Team. The Developer Tooling and Automation Team will focus on creating tooling to reduce the friction and cognitive load around deployment, infrastructure, maintenance, security, and observability. The Quality Platform Team will focus on creating tooling, presenting metrics, and increasing observability on all facets of testing. Both teams will work throughout the entire engineering organization to advocate for and document best practices to ensure a comprehensive vision for Engineering at Pie. Simply stated, we want to make Engineering as Easy as Pie!
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Senior Manager Cloudops EngineeringPie Insurance Jun 2022 - Aug 2022Denver, Colorado, UsAfter joining Pie, I collaborated with leadership to refactor and appropriately scope the context of the work owned by the CloudOps Team. I began the transition of the teamโs mindset and operating philosophy from reactive and operation-based to strategic and proactive by focusing on a developer self-service model and empowering developers through tooling and automation.
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Senior Director Software EngineeringBabel Street Dec 2018 - Jun 2022Washington , Dc, UsAs the DevOps practices matured, I redirected the teamโs focus to Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tools that enables the feature teams to seamlessly go from concept to production, while maintaining compliance standards set by cross-functional teams, including Security and IT. The future is bright and Iโm excited to see where our focus of โShift Leftโ, Automation, and GitOps can take Babel Street. โข As Babel Streetโs queuing demands shift and expand, I architected an IDP tool for developers to create their own custom RabbitMQ cluster using a combination of GitOps and Cloud Development Kit (CDK).โข Architected an IDP tool to reduce the cognitive load on our feature teams that deploys an AWS CloudFormation Stack containing the resources and configuration needed for their AWS ECS services. The DevOps team used feedback from a cross-functional group of stakeholders to create a simple, yet complete, Yaml file that interfaces with the AWS CDK application to generate an AWS Stack for the AWS ECS services. โข Defined the initial standards that were used to create Visual Studio Extension for developers fast-tracking their way to a project that follows best practices for container services.โข Designed and implemented the Build and Deployment pipeline for Docker Containers using AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and AWS ECS. This set the eventual groundwork for the IDP tooling.โข Architected and mentored a transition of Babel Streetโs Babel BOX (On Premise) solution from a cumbersome, complicated multi day on-site deploy to a simplified, standardized Docker Swarm installation using Docker Compose โข Led the initiative to migrate away from Service Fabric to AWSโs ECS as Windows container support matured, gaining better fault tolerance, resource allocation, cost optimization, scalability, standardization, and observability. As .Net evolved, I continued to advocate to support the latest LTS versions to reduce container size, increase throughput, and gain new feature sets. -
Senior Software EngineerBabel Street Feb 2016 - Dec 2018Washington , Dc, UsAs employee 19 at Babel Street, I was a Senior Software Engineer who focused on the core backend services. After a few iterations of development team restructuring, a group of engineers started a nonfeature-based incubation team. As the team became established, I filled the role of (acting) Director. Over time, responsibilities within the team diverged and spawned new teams. The remaining engineersโ primary focus was DevOps. I was responsible for the cultivation of the DevOps culture throughout the entire developer group. I collaborated across teams to identify the needs of Babel Street for continued growth. As services grew in number and complexity, I established standards for a distributed highly available microservice platform using Azure Service Fabric (On Premise). I designed and implemented a system to eliminate what was a quarterly after-hours, all-developer, deployment cycle. Eventually, I lead the team in developing a CI/CD system with integrations for static code analysis tools for security, operation, license compliance, unit testing, and disaster recovery. This system transformed the release cycle and was complementary to the organizationโs shift towards Agile. These changes allowed for multiple deployments per day without fear. With a growing ecosystem of microservices, Babel Street needed a reliable and scalable queuing system. After research, testing, and cost analysis, I created our first highly available RabbitMQ cluster and created a universal NuGet package for developer adaptation. โข Grassroots development of a green-field DevOps team โข Configuration and ownership of Microsoft Team Foundation Server and the migration to Atlassian Bamboo and Bitbucketโข Integrated Synopsis Blackduck and SonarQube to provide feedback on code quality, license, and security compliance โข Defined a transitional pattern from monolithic console applications and TopShelf Services to highly available and reliable microservices
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Software DeveloperBomgar Corporation Jan 2010 - Feb 2016Johns Creek, Ga, Us๐๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐++, ๐๐๐, ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ 104 ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ 2 ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐โข Configuration of the FIPS appliances, executing and validating cryptographic algorithms, and working with the lab to confirm responsesโข On-site defense of the FIPS 104 Level 2 Certification with the third-party lab ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐'๐ฌ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ค๐๐ญ๐ฌโข In-house tooling that presented multilingual capability of the entirety of the Bomgar Application Suite: Firmware, Middleware, Web User Client, Thick Client (QT), Mobile, and End users (native Mac, Windows, Linux) in multiple languagesโข In-house tooling used to collect, process, dedupe, and catalog linguist strings within the appliance so I could interface with 3rd party translation companiesโข In-house storage of translated strings to maintain a useable database going forward to reduce translation cost -
Desktop AdministratorMississippi State University Mar 2006 - Jan 2010Mississippi State, Ms, UsDesktop Admin at Mississippi State University's School of Human Sciences -
Information Technology Services, Student WorkerMississippi State University Jan 2005 - Mar 2006Mississippi State, Ms, UsStudent Worker For MSU's Information Technology Services
Kevin Still Education Details
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Mississippi State UniversityComputer Science
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Kevin Still attended Mississippi State University.
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