Levi Mcdonough Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

I took a step back from my career to care for a family member during a serious illness. During this time, I developed stronger time management and empathy, and also had the opportunity to reflect deeply on various subjects. I became very interested in and read extensively about philosophy, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Organizational Psychology, and Mental Models. I’m now ready and excited to re-enter the workforce, bringing my enhanced capabilities and new insights to new challenges in platform engineering and DevOps.

New York, Us

• Deployed Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes LMA framework to enhance system uptime and security,achieving 99.9% availability and lowering risks.• Developed integrations with fixed income exchanges using Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes to streamlinetrade operations and improve market data accuracy by 30%.• Implemented Incident Response automation with Datadog, AWS, and Kubernetes, cutting incident resolutiontime from 24 hours to under 4 hours, boosting reliability and compliance by 80%.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Creating SLDC Process standardization, reducing feedback loops, automating all the things, and iterating. With the goal of reducing TOIL, increasing release velocity and stability, and generally supporting the Engineers as if they too are customers.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed and took ownership over Production Architecture. Implement CI/CD Pipeline to automate testing, building, and deployment of the infrastructure, server, and client applications.Manage Logging, Alerting, and Incidence via DataDog Logging Agents, Monitors, AWS Kinesis, and Slack. Maintain SOC I and SOC II Compliance and handle audits. Created internal platform CLI that integrated OneLogin, AWS Session Manager, AWS STS, and 1Password. The program provided developers with a simple development process and access to only the resources they need, via RBAC Policies.Mentor junior engineers and perform code reviews.

New York, Us

- Design and support a scalable, fault tolerant, and highly available service based architecture.- Services are containerized via Docker and deployed to AWS ECS.- Services exist in private subnets within a VPC, accessible via a combination of nodes in public subnets and Application ELB's. - All services in private subnets make outgoing requests via NAT Gateways.- Write deployment automation code.- Write authentication/authorization proxy service api implemented in Python.- Write Shell scripts to support, manage, and upgrade services.- Manage and support legacy Debian Linux Instances.- Work with and mentor junior engineers.

New York, Us

• Software engineer with focus on Dev Ops responsible for all aspects of server code and infrastructure.• Design, develop, and maintain restful api's as well as microservices written in Python and Clojure.• Manage and deploy Docker Clusters for various microservices using AWS ECS. • Build testing framework for use with unit/integration tests. (Nose, Selenium, Jenkins)• Responsible for deployment design and process, for distributed system in AWS. • Write and configure deployment scripts via Ansible deploying to AWS.

New York, Ny, Us

• Python engineer focusing on scalable mobile and web client api development.• Worked on mongodb implementation for persistent storage focusing on model development. • Used various libraries and tools such as pyramid as the MVC framework and pymongo as the mongodb driver.• Also used fabric for provisioning, testing, and deployment.• Worked with Selenium for user testing and Jenkins for continuous deployment.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

• Python engineer focusing on backend data flow from 3rd party data sources.• Build/support multiple api integrations as well as scrapers to access data. • Work with Django as the MVC framework as well as Django Rest for the api. • The application is targeted at enterprise level customers and therefore we handle very large data sets. • Ingest and normalize data provided by 3rd party api integrations. • Design schema and maintain PostgreSQL database implementation focusing on problems associated with scaling the application to many users as well as database normalization issues. • Setup and manage AWS S3 and Openshift.

• Develop, manage and support Touritz flagship Django application. • Work on all server side Python scripting as well as all client side html/css/javascript.• Manage Postgresql database for the application.• Handle all system administration tasks related to the AWS Linux instances the application and database both reside on.

• Developed Python/DJango application that lets users save and geo tag any place on the internet so they can visit that place later. • Written with Django 1.5 and Python 3.3. • Maintained Linux instances on AWS.• Setup and maintained PostGreSQL database with PostGis extension.• Developed custom CMS for our curators and bloggers to write articles. • Integrated with and scraped images from Instagram, Flickr, Yelp and other websites in order for our curators to rate and review the images before they published the content.• Worked with many Python and DJango libraries in order to build and maintain the application.• Worked as a team with another developer to meet deadlines and hit product benchmarks.• Developed Javascript bookmarklet for users to interact with 3rd party websites and save all data to they’re account on our project.• Integrated both Twitter and Facebook OG into the site.• The application was a finalist and the Brandery (a top ten accelerator fund) as well as other funds throughout the country.• Wrote and maintained scripts using Java based app, Juicebox for host monitoring and daily maintenance• Managed third party applications for monitoring users and servers such as Skeddly, New Relic, Mixpanel, and Chartbeat.

• Increase client base and develop business opportunities for our various products and services.• Present BizTech’s product line and available services, to potential clients.• Consult with executives and managers in order to strengthen relationships and develop new business opportunities.

• Monitored a subset of U.S. equity products taking advantage of order flow and small price fluctuations.• Gathered information about mispriced assets via detailed valuation techniques.

New York, Ny, Us

• Handled Inbound calls such as insurance and pension related inquiries• Handled all reporting responsibilities for the Customer Engagement department, reports I created were presented to Executive Vice Presidents by the Vice President of Customer Engagement• Responsible for creating and maintaining a database of performance related data using MS Excel and MS Access• Created queries to pull reports via Oracle database system, which are then formatted by means of MS Excel and Access.• Automated and customized statistical reports to create a streamlined, user friendly reporting interface for Vice Present of Customer Engagement.• Pension Group performance is compared to benchmarks, at which point I interpret the data and suggest business adjustments to Vice President of Customer Engagement• Analysis responsibilities included variance analysis, business forecasting, and performance interpretation.

Performed in over 200 shows during the 2007 Christmas season in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, as a principal performer.

Master Of Science - Ms, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Bs, Finance & Chemistry