Michael Conlon Email & Phone Number

Cedar Park, Texas, United States

- Automated a fully manual provisioning process for developer environment stack, eliminating human error and reducing setup time by 99% - Created kubernetes resources using kustomize, helm, kubernetes operators - Created datastore resources and users (RDS, rabbitmq, AWS elasticsearch) - Wrote bash, python, and terraform code to interface with relevant APIs - Designed everything with intention for planned conversion towards gitops - Collaborated with legacy code owners… Show more - Automated a fully manual provisioning process for developer environment stack, eliminating human error and reducing setup time by 99% - Created kubernetes resources using kustomize, helm, kubernetes operators - Created datastore resources and users (RDS, rabbitmq, AWS elasticsearch) - Wrote bash, python, and terraform code to interface with relevant APIs - Designed everything with intention for planned conversion towards gitops - Collaborated with legacy code owners to ensure backwards compatibility with developer workflows- Advocated for and started building the foundation for a mature monitoring and alerting solution (Pagerduty, Datadog, chat integrations)- Created and owned a backlog of work when opportunities for improvement were observed throughout the stack, both in infrastructure and product configuration Show less

Key Initiatives:- Automated Terraform Enterprise updates with GitHub Actions, improving reliability & reducing operational toil by 90%- Helped conduct annual disaster recovery exercise, taking consideration to minimize toil & increase automation for the following year- Created visibility into infrastructure costs (AWS & Kubernetes), driving cost-saving initiatives across the engineering department: - Standardized AWS tagging on all AWS infrastructure across 10-12 accounts… Show more Key Initiatives:- Automated Terraform Enterprise updates with GitHub Actions, improving reliability & reducing operational toil by 90%- Helped conduct annual disaster recovery exercise, taking consideration to minimize toil & increase automation for the following year- Created visibility into infrastructure costs (AWS & Kubernetes), driving cost-saving initiatives across the engineering department: - Standardized AWS tagging on all AWS infrastructure across 10-12 accounts with a Terraform module - Wrote ETL process in Golang to extract kubernetes cost data from Kubecost & load into Mode for business intelligence - Built interactive Mode dashboard using SQL, showcasing a variety of dimensions for cost analysis - Presented dashboard & my findings to the entire Engineering department, driving the company's #1 initiative of cost reductionResults:- Exposed cost-saving opportunities to dev teams & leadership, up to 90% reduction available for some services- Provided insight for executive leadership to understand cost drivers of the platform & make strategic decisions- Reduced operational toil & uptime of Terraform Enterprise, Ansible inventory & playbooks, & documented runbooksResponsibilities:- Worked with security team to setup AWS resources as needed- Oncall rotation- Wrote Terraform code to manage & create AWS infrastructure- Improved Ansible configuration to use dynamic inventory based on AWS tags Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Key Initiatives:- Created new versioning system for internal terraform modules, presented to cross-platform teams for adoption- Encrypted app secrets with KMS + Mozilla sops across two internal platforms- Advocated for communication & standardization across teams, writing shared code libraries & documentation- Created & updated kubernetes clusters in EKS with fluxcd & kustomize- Worked to standardize EKS management using fluxcd GitOps, wrote the definitive runbook for EKS… Show more Key Initiatives:- Created new versioning system for internal terraform modules, presented to cross-platform teams for adoption- Encrypted app secrets with KMS + Mozilla sops across two internal platforms- Advocated for communication & standardization across teams, writing shared code libraries & documentation- Created & updated kubernetes clusters in EKS with fluxcd & kustomize- Worked to standardize EKS management using fluxcd GitOps, wrote the definitive runbook for EKS cluster setupResponsibilities:- Created & managed AWS infra with Terraform (EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, KMS)- Quickly joined the on-call rotation- Managed EC2 hosts with saltstack- Scaled EC2 clusters horizontally & vertically- Built out several new ECS services for developers Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Key Initiatives:- Leveraged my past technical experience with Elasticsearch to lead an investigation into cluster scalability: - improved monitoring and observability - analyzed performance and scalability issues - recommended remediation steps to be addressed by both Operations and Development - resized clusters when performance issues aroseResponsibilities:- Ramped up on a team using Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes to manage infrastructure on… Show more Key Initiatives:- Leveraged my past technical experience with Elasticsearch to lead an investigation into cluster scalability: - improved monitoring and observability - analyzed performance and scalability issues - recommended remediation steps to be addressed by both Operations and Development - resized clusters when performance issues aroseResponsibilities:- Ramped up on a team using Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes to manage infrastructure on AWS and physical hardware- Ramped up on the on-call rotation by being the first point of contact during business hours, conducting incident response on a wide variety of the tech stack Show less

Austin, Texas

Key Initiatives/Responsibilities:- helped migrate rails apps to docker, deployed with AWS ECS and some internal tooling- expanded to Canadian & UK data centers, replicating VPC configuration with ansible- maintained and improved ansible configs across 3 data centers and 5 environments

Austin, Texas

Key Initiatives:- helped transition dev, staging, & production from EC2 Classic to VPC- recommended, implemented, and educated team on use of datadog for monitoring- transitioned from chef to ansible- helped migrate rails apps to docker, deployed with AWS ECS and some internal tooling- expanded to Canadian & UK data centers, replicating VPC configuration with ansible- maintained and improved ansible configs across 3 data centers and 5… Show more Key Initiatives:- helped transition dev, staging, & production from EC2 Classic to VPC- recommended, implemented, and educated team on use of datadog for monitoring- transitioned from chef to ansible- helped migrate rails apps to docker, deployed with AWS ECS and some internal tooling- expanded to Canadian & UK data centers, replicating VPC configuration with ansible- maintained and improved ansible configs across 3 data centers and 5 environmentsResponsibilities:- optimized AWS costs with quarterly reservations and improved DR efficiency- implemented security remediations from yearly security audits/pentests- maintained and updated chef recipes- helped deploy & maintain etcd-proxy with docker on all EC2 instances (docker stability test)- contributed to internal tools for deploys and DR- helped QA engineers occasionally with Jenkins configuration- configured/managed all things AWS: VPC, EC2, ECS, RDS, Elasticache, Route53, Cloudwatch, Cloudfront, S3, IAM, Lambda- managed and upgraded datastores: PostgreSQL with pgbouncer, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Memcached/Redis (Elasticache), Etcd Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Key Initiatives:- One month into the job - created 6-month operations goals; presented to development team and VP of Engineering- Rebuilt and migrated internal tools to upgraded versions; codified full boot processes from scratch- Advocated for and implemented hosted solutions to replace legacy on-premise internal tools, achieved cost savings in cash and maintenance- Managed AWS Reserved Instances, worked directly with CFO to keep costs as low as possible (saved 51% yearly, then… Show more Key Initiatives:- One month into the job - created 6-month operations goals; presented to development team and VP of Engineering- Rebuilt and migrated internal tools to upgraded versions; codified full boot processes from scratch- Advocated for and implemented hosted solutions to replace legacy on-premise internal tools, achieved cost savings in cash and maintenance- Managed AWS Reserved Instances, worked directly with CFO to keep costs as low as possible (saved 51% yearly, then 49% the next year)- Completed an exercise in work estimation for new SOA projects with Lead Developers, Product Manager, Chief Architect, and CEO for future projects (to help determine which solutions should be built in-house and which should come from partnerships, services, etc)- Helped move team from home-rolled graphite monitoring solution towards Sumologic + Datadog + NewRelic- Worked with VP of Engineering to create 12-month Operations RoadmapResponsibilities:-Maintained and improved configuration scripts for all servers through Rightscale- Manage all servers for internal tools, qa, staging, production environments- Manage configuration management suite (Rightscale); maintain bash scripts and chef recipes which define server boot, operational, and decommission processes- Build and lead Operations/SysAdmin team to collaborate with Developers, Chief Architect, IT, Product Management, QA/Release Management, Security Officer, CFO, CEO in an Agile environment- Manage AWS account, resources, and access control- Manage and administer full build and deploy toolchain (GitHub, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, Artifactory, Jenkins automated & ad-hoc deployments)- Interview over 20 candidates for SysAdmin and DevOps positions, plus many more candidates for Developer positions Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Responsibilities:-Create and improve large-scale build, packaging, and release management processes-Create and support multi-platform, multi-regional, multilingual releases-Support and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing and release management-Exercise troubleshooting and quick problem solving skills while working in a startup's agile software development environment-Support all tools for continuous and rapid changes-Manage Software Configuration… Show more Responsibilities:-Create and improve large-scale build, packaging, and release management processes-Create and support multi-platform, multi-regional, multilingual releases-Support and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing and release management-Exercise troubleshooting and quick problem solving skills while working in a startup's agile software development environment-Support all tools for continuous and rapid changes-Manage Software Configuration Management systems; Set up and transition team to new workflow to support parallel development and code reviews-Perform complex SCM tasks and mentor/train others in SCM efforts-Script in Linux, OSX, and Windows environments-Review and contribute to software documentationTechnologies:-Jenkins with master-slave configuration-Gitosis, GitHub, Bitbucket-XCode, Eclipse, Visual Studio-iOS, Mac OSX, Android, HTML5, and Windows targets-AWS, Ubuntu cloud server deployment Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Responsibilities:-Create, maintain, and operate the build system-Develop analytics scripts for management-Manage Software Configuration Management systems

Austin, Texas, United States

Developing tools and software support for art, designers, and QA.

- Planned and managed development of a classroom centered online game to be used as an educational tool for international affairs students.- Created project-delivery benchmarks, recruited and managed a team of programmers and an artist, and contributed code to the development of the project.- Adapted to constantly-evolving game design and collaborated with the creator on scoping initial product deliveries

- Created a simple online educational game for economics students at Trinity University.- Adapted to changing requirements of the game design- Contracted an artist to render illustrations to be used for the game- Coding with HTML, Javascript, and CSS for the first time, and delivered the product on time

· Revamped the job application webpage for the studio, using the help of third-party software. Consulted with the hiring manager; automated the process for both parties involved.- Improved existing web-based tools used for reporting game build status.

· Constructed the PC installer for F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate using InstallShield 12.· Ran performance tests on several levels in alpha and beta stages of the game. Learned the basics of level design and communicated with programmers, quality assurance testers, and level designers to identify problem spots and recommend solutions.