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• Built and administered multi-cloud infrastructure for fleets of autonomous robots.• Set up applications and code deployments in Amazon Web Services using Terraform for infrastructure as code.• Utilized S3 buckets for blob data, PostgreSQL RDS for structured storage, Redis ElastiCache for speed, Elastic Container Registry for hosting Docker images, and Elastic Kubernetes Service for code execution.• Migrated infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform, using Compute Engine, Cloud Build, GKE, and Cloud Storage.• Implemented and supported a continuous deployment system using GitOps with Argo CD, allowing development teams to advertise and visually monitor the status of zero-downtime application deployments in Kubernetes.• Configured automated testing and code deployments in Jenkins to preproduction testing environments.• Scale and load tested application code to ensure ability to meet customer service-level agreements.• Maintained business-critical extract, transform, and load Python processes that pull data from JSON APIs and insert it into Snowflake DB for use with customer portals. Actively monitored ETL jobs and notified Slack for better visibility.• Instrumented and optimized code performance using Grafana backed by Prometheus and Jaeger for tracing.• Set up Grafana alerts for monitoring and responded to incidents within a PagerDuty on-call support rotation.• Coordinated company-wide knowledge shares and co-chaired the company recreation committee, organizing regular happy hours, tournaments, sports leagues, and other employee engagement activities.

• Kept the websites for The Atlantic and CityLab online and highly available.• Maintained a fleet of CentOS virtual machines running in vCenter that provide back-end and front-end services for the sites; handled inventory, operating system upgrades, security patching, and the creation of Puppet manifests.• Configured Jenkins multibranch pipelines for Django-powered Python projects and Node.js-powered applications.• Helped maintain and expanded a betas testing infrastructure, allowing project managers, developers, and other stakeholders to immediately view working application installations that incorporate proposed code changes.• Created hourly site ​”​smoke test” checks for well-formed HTTP responses and search engine-optimized HTML.• Administered Jira, Slack, GitHub, Jenkins; integrated services where possible and desirable.• Authored technical documentation and incident reports in Confluence; triaged security-related e-mails.• Built out tooling to make code deployments downtime-free and friendlier for developers.• Monitored platform performance with New Relic, SpeedCurve, and WebPageTest.• Migrated from Instart Logic to Fastly for content delivery network services; created a version-controlled framework, with included testing infrastructure, for managing Fastly Varnish Cache Language changes.• Reduced single points of failure and increased fault tolerance using DRBD, Corosync, Pacemaker, and STONITH.• Managed and maintained an Nginx proxy server and application servers running Phusion Passenger and uWSGI.

• Primary front-end developer responsible for launches of Best Global Universities, Best Arab Region Universities, and Best Credit Cards, and updates to Doctor Finder, Best Medicare Plans, and similar products on usnews.com.• Debugged and maintained an array of public-facing Web applications, including Python applications powered by Django, Pyramid and the Pylons frameworks and supported by PostgreSQL, a large Java-based Brightspot CMS installation supported by MySQL, and legacy or niche internal PHP applications supported by Oracle.• Administered Jenkins continuous integration service, GitLab code repository, internal MediaWiki wikis, corporate Drupal-based intranet, Kerberos shell accounts, Puppet manifests, corporate Slack team, and Catchpoint analytics.• Managed a smooth and multi-phased HTTPS rollout for site verticals, with a strong focus on SEO considerations.• Established hourly and automatic post-deployment site checks with appropriate alerting and monitoring.• Engaged in regular code review and evangelized about its role in increasing code quality and reducing code defects.• Attempted to pay down accumulated technical debt within the ecosystem by simplifying Apache HTTP Server configurations and production load balancer rules, and reconciling emulators for preproduction environments.• Onboarded and trained new developers and other colleagues about Git, SSH, shells, SFTP, and related tools.• Provided technical guidance and leadership in weekly architecture and status meetings.

• Managed 50-user Microsoft Windows network consisting of 11 production servers and one test server; server cluster included an application server, file servers, database servers, and a Microsoft Exchange e-mail server.• Assisted with computer, phone, video, and printer equipment purchases and vouchers.• Administered Campaign Enterprise e-mail blast software, delivering over 250,000 e-mails per month, with accompanying opens and click-through analytics and tracking.

• Solely responsible for the maintenance and operation of more than 40 American University Web domains.• Created and managed 200-plus student government e-mail accounts and mailing lists using Google Apps.• Created and maintained a MediaWiki documentation repository to store files and transition documents.