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Barcelona, Ct, Es

San Francisco, California, Us

- Designed and maintained the ipfs.io gateway infrastructure to efficiently manage 6 billion requests/mo, amounting to 7 petabytes/mo while accommodating a 5x surge in traffic within a six-month period.- Established advanced monitoring and logging systems utilizing Prometheus and the ELK stack.- Strategically developed and oversaw multi-regional IPFS clusters at scale, with a storage capacity of up to 3 terabytes.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Worked with distributed systems start-up to deploy test and live environments on multiple cloud providers using containers and infrastructure/configuration management tools (Terraform/Ansible). Lead the deployment of logging, monitoring and alerting systems based on ELK and Prometheus. Improved build and delivery times in various parts of the system using CI/CD pipelines.- Served as infrastructure lead on enterprise project with client in the financial industry, responsible for delivering a production environment on AWS/ECS. Contributed application instrumenting code to expose business critical metrics in Open Census formats. Wrote custom delivery pipelines for ECS/Docker

- Lead the migration effort from EC2 infrastructure to containers using Kubernetes & Istio

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Enabled quick product iteration by building highly available infrastructure and microservices orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker- Increased visibility into key metrics by deploying monitoring and alerting infrastructure using Prometheus- Ensured repeatable and consistent environments by building developer tooling, infrastructure-as-code with Python and Ansible- Minimized errors and reduce deployment times by building Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines with Jenkins and CircleCI

- Reduced operational costs by migrating SAAS AWS infrastructure to automated IAAS clusters using Terraform, Ansible and containers- Increased reliability by deploying monitoring infrastructure, tracking performance metrics and creating rules to alert of system failure- Decreased incident response times by establishing on-call rotation and post-mortem analysis

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Enabled start-ups to rapidly deploy applications on AWS while ensuring industry compliance (HIPAA,PHI)- Contributed to successful launch of start-ups providing bio-tech and geo-location services by developing robust Web applications in Ruby/NodeJS - Streamlined application deployment and orchestration with AWS OpsWorks/Code Deploy- Provided clients with vital application and infrastructure metrics by implementing monitoring and alerting with Prometheus & AWS CloudWatch

- Successfully migrated various applications from Engine Yard servers to the company's private cloud infrastructure- Automated provisioning/deployment of applications by writing Puppet and Capistrano scripts- Integrated applications with existing infrastructure by porting Chef recipes to Puppet manifests- Contributed to solidifying contributions made to schools by developing Ruby web applications for tracking multi-channel loyalty rewards

Burbank, Ca, Us

- Boosted mobile engagement by developing a distributed push-notification delivery system for iOS and Android devices leveraging Amazon SQS- Increased code maintainability by implementing TDD practices and using tools such as Rspec, Rubocop - Streamlined invoicing by adding features to Ruby applications- Improved application run times by identifying bottlenecks using performance measuring tools such as ruby-prof, KCachegrind

- Implemented an income stream for the company by developing tiered subscription plans and setting up integration with the Stripe API- Ensured 100% platform availability during the live 2012 Stand Up To Cancer telethon broadcast on national TV channels by scaling the video serving infrastructure - Increased reliability by automating server deployments on EngineYard and EC2 using Capistrano- Centralized live events and recordings by implementing account merging

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

- Optimized spend and impressions by implementing semi-autonomous ad monitoring and bid re-adjustment jobs - Automated the ads publishing pipeline by developing a parallel job processing system leveraging the Facebook APIs - Increased error tracing capabilities by implementing application-wide logging and request/response tracing at the load balancers- Helped improve code quality and lead the charge on contributor on-boarding by writing code generation tasks and building base development images in Vagrant

- Minimized delays in pushing new leads to third party CRM systems such as SugarCRM, QuickBase by improving the company's “connector” system - Exposed heat-map style metrics on client websites by implementing attention tracking in Javascript- Developed and deployed JavaScript applications for validating and pulling live data from various client APIs.- Improved data visibility and decision making by optimizing SQL databases

- Established the company's core business by building a high-availability VoIP backbone and inter-connecting with various VoIP providers- Reduced time spent on installations by automating the initial provisioning of VoIP phones - Increased wholesale and retail domestic/international traffic by scaling VoIP network capacity and increasing quality- Created new income streams by developing access-code dialing, call-back and voicemail-to-email applications

- Expanded the company's VoIP capabilities by building a network of 10 SIP/H.323 based gateways, border control/media proxies.- Simplified customer management and invoicing by developing a CRM intranet application in PHP and MySQL - Added functionality to the company's PHP-based reporting application used to get snapshots of the company's performance and tax-related reports.- Enabled the company to accept online payments by developing a bill payment interface

- Increased data redundancy by developing Bash and Perl scripts for backing up critical systems such as MS Exchange mailboxes and SharePoint documents- Implemented a single sign-on procedure on the company network by using a shared LDAP back-end between Windows 2003 and RedHat Linux- Managed internal Windows workstations, responsible with keeping the systems virus-free and implementing a local repository of Windows updates for pushing new patches to workstations- Worked on various hardware projects involving soldering and building small integrated systems

- Developed PHP code for the company's internal database and the company's public website- Responsible for the design and development of an e-commerce site with shopping cart and order processing used for selling foreign movies on DVD- Expanded the company's offering by implementing a pipeline used for transcoding video files between various formats (NTSC DVD, SVCD, VCD)

Master In Research And Innovation (Miri), Computer Networks And Distributed Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Information Technology