Architecting a highly available and secure cloud platform.

Bringing an SRE mindset to build secure infrastructure* Lead for several engineering-wide projects to improve the security posture of Confluent's cloud infrastructure.* Participated in a 24/7 on-call rotation responding to IDS alerts, internally reported incidents and external researcher contacts.* Performed security design and implementation reviews for both internally developed and externally procured products

Sr Staff Engineer in the SRE OrgProjects:* Tech lead for LinkedIn migration to Azure & building LinkedIn's infrastructure in Azure* Tech lead for Distributed Firewall (DFW)* Member of Site Reliability Technical Leadership Group* Chair of Infra-SRE Design Review Community* Engineering Blog editor

Staff Site Reliability Engineer on the Production-SRE team.Improving Linkedin’s member experience through leadership in monitoring, automation and application development.Responsibilities:+ Developing applications to improve MTTD and MTTR+ Provide direction and guidelines for site monitoring+ Build tools for efficient site issue troubleshooting, issue detection & correlation+ Assist in restoring stability to services during site critical issues+ High level summarization and communication of major incidents to engineering directors & executivesProjects:+ Multicolo - Apart of the team that builds and decommissions LinkedIn's datacenter's + inMaintenance - Automating the datacenter maintenance process+ Correlate - Correlation engine to triage alerts+ inDefault - Automatically creating monitoring for LinkedIn's services+ Security Champion 2016-2017+ Secondment to Traffic-SRE for 3 months+ Secondment to Data-Storage-Infrastructure-SRE for 5 months+ Availability - Designing and implementing a new availability measurement strategy+ Staging Datacenter fabric project lead+ Distributed FireWall (DFW) project leadTalks/ Presentations+ Couchbase Connect Nov 2016 - Going all in: From single use-case to many+ Couchbase Connect Nov 2016 - Monitoring Production Deployments The Tools – LinkedIn+ APRICOT 2017: Trafficshifting: Avoiding Disasters & Improving Performance at Scale+ SRECon17 Americas: Reducing MTTR and False Escalations: Event Correlation at LinkedIn+ SRECon17 Americas: TrafficShift: Avoiding Disasters at Scale+ Velocity San Jose 2017: Traffic shifts: Avoiding disasters at scale+ SRECon17 EMEA: Reducing MTTR and False Escalations: Event Correlation at LinkedIn+ SRECon17 EMEA: Networks for SRE's: What do I need to know for troubleshooting applications+ Interop ITX 2018: The next wave of reliability engineering

Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Production-SRE team.Improving Linkedin’s member experience through leadership in monitoring, automation and application development.Responsibilities:+ Developing applications to improve MTTD and MTTR+ Provide direction and guidelines for site monitoring+ Build tools for efficient site issue troubleshooting, issue detection & correlation+ Assist in restoring stability to services during site critical issues+ High level summarization and communication of major incidents to engineering directors & executivesProjects:+ Loadtesting - Reimagining LinkedIn's capacity & DR testing (BCP)+ Site Availability Reporting - Automating the reporting of our global site availability+ Multicolo - Apart of the team that builds and decommissions LinkedIn's datacenter's + inMaintenance - Automating the datacenter maintenance process+ Correlate - Correlation engine to triage alerts+ inDefault - Automatically creating monitoring for LinkedIn's services+ Security Champion 2016Talks/ Presentations+ Couchbase Connect Nov 2016+ Couchbase Mountain View Meetup Jan 2016+ Southbay SRE Meetup Jan 2016+ SRECon16 April 2016+ SaltConf16 April 2016

Site Reliability Engineer in Identity (Profile & Higher-Ed) Team working on the LinkedIn profile, Higher Education and associated services.Responsibilities:+ Serve as a primary point responsible the overall health, performance, and capacity of our internet-facing systems+ Assist in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations to facilitate our rapid iteration and constant growth+ Develop tools to improve the ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale UNIX environment+ Work closely with development teams to ensure that platforms are designed with "operability" in mind+ Capacity planning+ Decommissioning old services/ clusters when they are replaced with new products/ hardware+ Security threat assessmentProjects:+ Auto-remediation Virtual Team+ Traffic-Engineering automation Team+ Couchbase Virtual Team+ Elasticsearch Virtual TeamPresentations:+ Couchbase Connect 2014+ Strata + Hadoop World 2015+ Couchbase Connect 2015

In my role at Rio Tinto, I am responsible for the development and maintenance of the Ergonomics for Thermal Environments (ETE) Application. I wrote the system to replace the company's old MS-DOS based software.The software is now used world-wide across the company and has increased the manageability of staff and mining environments for Industrial Hygienists.The application is one of two known production systems in the world.

As a student ambassador at Google, I promote Google products and Google events at the University of Queensland. I also act as a liaison between the university and Google staff in regards to the use and deployment of Google products.+ Presented two sessions at Google Apps for Education Summit (Sydney, Jan 2013)+ Presented one session at Google Apps for Education Summit (Brisbane, April 2013)

Working at the Research Computing Centre (RCC) in the Genomics Virtual Lab (GVL) team, I am responsible for the administration of approximately 20 servers used my local and external researchers.I support the Galaxy genome application and am working towards a federated authentication/ authorisation platform for our systems, software and storage.

The University of Queensland is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions. From a network perspective, it is the second largest network in Queensland, with the Network Operations team supporting network services for over 300,000 clients over a range of campuses, institutions, and schools. As an engineer in the Network Operations Team, I am responsible for day to day management of the University of Queensland's network. This includes fault resolution, design engineering, alterations to the network and a small number of projects.During my time of employment, I completed the following projects:+ Technical lead of Siemens SiPass 2.5 access control upgrade (Largest in the world) + Implementing, administering and maintaining Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS) Serverfarm and ACE load-balancer + Migration of three University organisational groups into central data-centres and infrastructure+ Implementing Cisco Access Control Server (ACS) AAA on all switches and routers. + Deployment of new building management networks+ Upgrade of wireless core network. Implementing Cisco VSS across the routers and installing Cisco WiSM's On a daily basis, I worked on:+ Planning and implementation of core network hardware upgrade and MPLS architecture+ Maintenance of Cisco ASA and FWSM firewalls+ Implementing a new Data Centre monitoring architecture+ Maintenance and fault-resolution of internet border routers and WAN links (30+ BGP peers)+ Installation and maintenance of UQSchoolsnet network (40+ Schools/ University's)+ Development and application of baseline configuration for all network devices+ Implementing and documenting a number of building and server network migrations and upgrades + Renumbering the University's switches, access points and building management devices+ Maintaining servers used by network engineering staff + Writing scripts to help manage the network+ Disaster and recovery planning

I maintain SGAC's servers and their software systems on a casual basis. I ensure that the website member services are available and functioning correctly.

In my position at Ausrocks, I maintain a small number of Windows and OSX computers as well as building, maintaining and upgrading their servers.

In my role at NASA, I was tasked with modifying the Android Kernel to facilitate NASA's use of Android phones in the PhoneSat project. I designed and implemented the PhoneSat 1.5 satellite as apart of my undergraduate thesis project.I also was tasked with debugging highly technical hardware and software issues in the satellite systems.PhoneSat 1.0 and 2.0 beta launched successfully in April 2013.