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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for the toolchain comprising PNC’s Enterprise app deployment solutions: JFrog Artifactory, Enterprise Deploy Pipeline on Jenkins, and IBM UrbanCode Deploy. Maintain product backlogs, balancing internal tech-debt, feature requests and bug fixes from users, and larger enterprise-wide initiatives such as vulnerability management and hardware/software currency compliance, to maximize the business value we deliver.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Technical and Team Lead for the Enterprise Deployment Pipeline, used by 400+ application teams. Responsible for the design and delivery of pipeline features and bug fixes. Mentor junior and senior team members to do the same. Collaborate with platform teams to develop deployment pipelines for their platforms.Key Contributions:* Designed and executed the successful migration of 400+ app teams from a legacy non-production CD Jenkins instance to five modern production CD Jenkins instances, by line of business.* Instrumented our pipeline libraries to emit events to Elasticsearch, for usage metrics and insights.* Decomposed our legacy, monolithic pipeline library into manageable parts.* Created a GPG-based pipeline secrets management solution for application teams.* Automated the deployment of secrets from CyberArk to OpenShift, for non-vault-aware apps.* Streamlined local Jenkins pipeline library testing with Docker and Jenkins Config as Code.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Defined and designed technology solutions to assist clients in meeting their business objectives within the agreed enterprise architecture. Provided advice as an SME on technical aspects of system development and integration, and ensured that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices were applied correctly. Contributed to technical papers and knowledge base.Key Contributions:Integrations developer for UrbanCode Deploy (UCD)* Delivered an average of one plugin defect fix per month in the first year in this role* Automated plugin functional testing with the Spock framework* Developed Ansible roles and container images for UCD and IBM Rational License Key Server* Streamlined plugin demo environment provisioning using Ansible and DockerClient advocacy and lab solutions* Met periodically with clients to help them succeed with UrbanCode products* Vetted UrbanCode Velocity installation procedure on Kubernetes and OpenShift* Developed OpenShift template for UrbanCode Build* Named Client Advocate of the Quarter (2019 Q1)* Published white paper: Upgrading to UrbanCode Deploy 7

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Evaluate, implement, customize, and maintain DevOps tools shared across the enterprise. Analyze customers’ technological and procedural needs, develop solutions, and provide ongoing support. Improve processes with scripting and other automation.Key Contributions:Lead PNC engineer for IBM UrbanCode Deploy* Planned and executed multiple UCD installations in complex network environments* Automated the UCD upgrade using Ansible* Packaged the UCD agent and relay as RPMs for rapid deployment to thousands of servers* Used Elastic stack to gain insight into UCD agent data and aid with capacity planning* Orchestrated the migration of UCD between datacenters* One of three employees to receive CTO recognition for datacenter migration effortsLead PNC developer for UCD* Onboarding tool (Java), saving thousands of hours of manual onboarding effort, and including simulated application templates* Dozens of UCD management and reporting scripts (Ansible, Groovy, Python)* UCD processes for mass reconfiguration of agents* Plugins and templates for UCD self-deployment of plugins, processes, and templates* Several plugins, processes, and templates for use by application teams* Build and deploy automation pipeline for UCD plugins: Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, UCD* Conduct code/design reviews and manage the release of UCD plugins, processes, and templates, with a team of 3-5 developers

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Managed Enterprise source code management system. Collaborated with development teams to automate application build and deployment. Implemented and enforced processes to ensure the integrity of production and test/integration environments.Key Contributions:* Installed and maintained Jenkins CI tool, used to build and deploy several hundred different applications for the Java and .NET platforms.* Installed and maintained GitHub Enterprise source code management system, providing training and mentoring on its use to new staff.* Contributed to the evaluation and rollout of the Puppet configuration management automation tool.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Designed, deployed, and supported internet/intranet software infrastructure. Performed application deployments between Development, QA and Production environments. Investigated and resolved problems affecting internet/intranet hardware and software infrastructure. Seized opportunities to improve process by leveraging automation tools and writing custom scripts. Mentored junior and senior team members to provide excellent customer and service support. Coordinated and communicated infrastructure changes to affected technical and nontechnical parties.Key Contributions:* Developed several self-service tools for clients to reduce or eliminate client wait time and dependence on my team.* Established new processes and streamlined existing ones to decrease turnaround time and provide better service to the business.* Led the design and implementation of standards for software installation and configuration.* Planned and implemented web server migrations to modern hardware and software.* Evaluated multiple alternative application monitoring solutions, and provided feedback to management that led to the decision to purchase.* Trained new junior and senior staff members, helping to improve the onboarding process.* Traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to train support staff in preparation for 24 hour global on-call support rotation, and chaired multiple week-long remote training sessions for KL staff.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Supported internet/intranet software infrastructure. Performed application deployments between Development, QA and Production environments. Documented operational tasks to ensure consistency and adherence to SLAs.Key Contributions:* Integrated Single Sign-On solution into company intranet.* Developed a Java web application for provisioning user access to company intranet (predecessor to Oracle Identity Manager).* Offered full time position following a successful internship.