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Dearborn, Michigan, US

Dearborn, Michigan, US

Fredericksburg, VA, US

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Architected and developed a Python app that aggregated invoicing data from multiple systems into a spreadsheet output, greatly reducing man-hours of data entry.
• Containerized applications via Docker. Deployed into standalone, Swarm, and AWS Elastic Container Service, and Kubernetes configurations.
• Set up Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Gitlab automation platforms with executor agents and established Gitflow patterns to selectively promote software to higher environments
• Wrote Terraform and Ansible scripts to rapidly bring up customer AWS & Azure infrastructure and create a repeatable process for migration to other environments or full tear-down and rebuilds.
• Speced, developed, and deployed Mulesoft APIs for clients including a Fortune 500 company’s e-commerce web-front and another’s Salesforce SaaS platform..
• Maintained and developed new modules for a Ruby-based e-commerce pipeline between Shopify and Netsuite endpoints.

Sterling, Virginia, US

• Developed and delivered reusable deployment strategies for Oracle enterprise security products to production environments so operations personnel could consistently deploy suites to multiple sites.
• Implemented latest IT infrastructure management technologies to further automate operations, freeing man-hours to solve more pressing issues.
• Used public key infrastructure as well as coding and systems engineering best practices to meet high security demands of customer.
• Demonstrated flexibility in problem-solving approach by developing tools in different languages and scripts depending on the specific need and situation.
• Architected a distributed database system to solve issue of multi-site data consistency.
• Wrote supporting documentation to democratize systems information among staff and ensure newly-hired personnel could hit the ground running.