Short term contract as a team lead for cloud infrastructure (AWS) for home networking. Introduced Andible, Terraform and other automation to the team, mentoring junior members and developing a full maintenance & patching program, incident mgmt, and bringing in IaaC tooling.Focused on up skilling the team and the processes, and building out a new development VPC. Handled telemetry from (a large #) home Internet devices, with always on MQTT connections, Kafka, MongoDB.

SRE for internal Meta service control plane, semi-akin to Cloud Formations or Terraform Cloud, providing a central interface to internal systems. Wrote new features focused on reliability, owned OKR for developer experience and reliability / performance monitoring.

Worked on Developer Productivity & Tooling with a DevOps focus, including designing a new git based source code workflows & build chains, docker based build system, and artifact storage systems, with associated desktop tooling integrations, all in a PCI / SOX compliant environment.

• Architected and implemented large scale (multi-zone / multi-region) AWS deployments of various applications to support the HERE Maps applications, including red green deploy tools• Designed CI (Jenkins) implementation for testing mobile (iOS, Android) applications• Supported a migration from Chef to Puppet, as well as EC2 classic to VPCs.

• Architected a highly scalable, multi-zone infrastructure using AWS scaling tools --- Utilized Autoscaling (under 1 minute to active), ELB, RDS, CloudFormation & CloudWatch --- Controlled using Puppet & MCollective --- Running a Python Django application w/ uWSGI & nGINX on Ubuntu 12.04 & 14.04• Prototyped & tested distributed time series computation system --- Implemented w/ MySQL 5.6 GTID replication layered on top of custom AMIs, EBS volumes & SSD instances --- Required fast start up time, with extremely fast IO using ephemeral systems• Improved continuous integration / deployment tasks from 45 min to 7.• Created automatic build process for custom AMIs based on application library changes --- Included all recent security updates --- Minimized system startup & convergence time by preinstalling code & application dependencies• Implemented & managed FreePBX(Asterisk) phone system for 12 Polycom phones• Designed & built Ruby Sinatra web console for internal use to: --- Manage AWS CloudFormation stacks & templates, Route53 DNS entries, AMIs --- Allow developers to perform common maintenance tasks --- Compare purchased reserved instances to current use per type & zone• Created custom modules for Puppet & Logstash to send notifications to internal IRC/Hipchat style system• Built modern core infrastructure --- Logstash & ElasticSearch cluster --- RabbitMQ & Redis --- Graphite --- Sensu (distributed monitoring)

Systems Team Lead (North America) • Built & managed a new 3 person US-based SA team, implementing dev/ops methodologies• Architected Puppet configuration management system• Worked with hardware vendors to spec & build 3 data center locations (2 local, 1 remote) ~ $3 million• Managed 3 datacenter moves, (2 US, 1 London)• Managed 7 NetApp storage clusters, NFS & iSCSI, implementing synchronous replication and snapmirrors• Managed deployments for multiple applications & products, typically on a weekly basis• Architected, built, & managed high availability enterprise infrastructure - 160 RHEL 6 Linux systems--- Mixing VMware clusters, HP blade chassis & discrete systems--- Applications included Jboss, Apache, WebLogic, Sybase, Oracle RAC, MQ, MySQL, Zenoss, Nagios, Netbackup, InfoBlox--- Bash scripting & automation--- Assisted with F5, Checkpoint, & Cisco networking hardware, with highly segregated network design

Outsourced IT management and support. PC, Mac & UNIX systems administration, specializing in Small Businesses and Non-Profits.

Analyst training program, Operations group, and later in charge of technology for Technical Training programs