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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft, Azure for OperatorsLeverage Kubernetes operators and controllers to deploy virtualized Azure AKS clusters on both on-premise and cloud infrastructure for telecom providers. Oversee the entire lifecycle management of the underlying bare metal hardware and virtualized network functions, ensuring robust and efficient operations.Spearhead initiatives to meet corporate supply chain security standards, including the implementation of code and image signing across numerous repositories. Provide strategic guidance to the team on CVE remediation, resulting in the rapid elimination of thousands of known CVEs from the platform. This significantly reduced the engineering effort required for CVE fixes and enabled automated customer attestation of CVE statuses within the platform.

San Francisco, California, Us

Develop and build advanced Kubernetes integrations for Vault, including the Vault Secrets Operator, Vault Agent Injector, Vault CSI Provider, and Helm charts, ensuring seamless and secure operations.Build and maintain Terraform providers and plugins for Vault and Kubernetes.Mentor junior and senior engineers, as well as interns, with a strong focus on career growth and the development of advanced technical skills, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.Design and build automated benchmarking suites for critical customer escalations, deploying Vault in various configurations (on-prem, cloud, etc.), generating workloads and traffic, and collecting metrics. This not only bolsters confidence in performance and reliability but also effectively utilized cloud platform tools across the entire Hashi-stack.Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Consul and Vault integrations with Kubernetes, authoring comprehensive documentation and blog posts to share knowledge and best practices.Actively participate in on-call rotations, customer support, pipeline management, backlog prioritization, and roadmap discussions, demonstrating a strong commitment to operational excellence and strategic planning.Maintain and contribute to open-source projects, ensuring the ongoing development and improvement of key technologies.Lead the development of advanced integrations between Vault and Consul, enabling Consul to offload secrets and certificate management to Vault using Zero Trust Principles. This comprehensive effort encompassed initial research, PRD contributions, writing RFCs, development, and managing the project’s roadmap and sprint execution with a dedicated team.Maintain and develop Kubernetes interfaces and control-plane components for Consul Service Mesh, including Helm charts, controllers, CRDs, health check systems, providers, TLS, bootstrapping and security/authentication systems.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Scale out software defined storage to any application using all cloud platforms and orchestration tools. I worked with the core storage/dataplane team.I focused on core storage, data layouts on disk, replication and fault tolerance, and cluster-wide state management, performance, and exporting components to controller/orchestration layers. In addition to this I focused quiet heavily on control plane elements which became the first integration with iscsi block providers like IBM's IKS cloud.

San Jose, California, Us

I was a Principal Engineer at Nexenta where I helped design and deliver the Nexenta Edge Object Storage system, a next generation greenfield cloud storage system. I led development efforts and provided technical direction on the client-server interfaces, replication, deduplication, system and object metadata, computational offloading, containerization and admin interfaces.In addition to this I worked heavily with the Sales, Product, and Leadership teams to influence and define product roadmap and manage customer escalations and feature requests while leading and mentoring a growing team of engineers.

Alameda, Ca, Us

I worked with the Compiler and Host Tools groups to provide engineering support for WindRiver products and systems.

Ames, Iowa, Us

Built PVFS2 communications library based on the OpenFabrics InfiniBand stack.Write and implement new NetPIPE interfaces.Maintain and benchmark and optimize performance of Opteron based RAID storage subsystems for quantum chemistry science.

Lemont, Il, Us

Developed a two dimensional data storage/distribution algorithm for the PVFS2 filesystem to alleviate network contention at the Petascale.

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