Team lead for backend services and application platform tools. Leverage a breadth of tools and approaches to develop creative solutions to operations problems• Led transformation to modern infrastructure leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Cloud to power five new applications in production• Built a GraphQL backend with team members to present a unified graph API, aggregating many systems' APIs• Built Ansible playbooks to automate application deployment for increased speed and reliability• Implemented URL signing authentication on the Carleton Course API to create tamper-proof URLs• Built automated CI pipelines with Jenkins and Kubernetes to reduce operational burden on developers• Reduced GKE cluster costs by 47% by improving node pool utilization and eliminating unnecessary sidecar container logs• Deployed edge proxies in front of legacy web systems to increase performance and security• Led effort to add test frameworks (Mocha, Jest, Codeception) to legacy apps to verify current behavior and support refactoring

Backend feature development and infrastructure for in-house CMS platform.• Led infrastructure automation and provisioning in on-prem to AWS migration• Developed a content-based recommendation engine using Solr to improve resource discovery• Deployed HAProxy and a MySQL multi-master Galera cluster to increase database availability and utility• Developed data ingestion and processing pipelines to scale data collection out to universities around the country• Integrated a payment processing library to collect event fees• Supported 10-staff team on technical, customer and sales support issues