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San Rafael, Cr

San Rafael, Heredia, Costa Rica

Improved deployment efficiency to save more than 30 minutes of developer wait time by architecting leaner CI/CD pipelines.Directed the implementation of a blue-green deployment strategy for new, replacement GKE infrastructure, managing the upgrade and migration of staging and production clusters from GKE 1.23 to 1.27. Oversaw essential name changes, updated cluster and node pool configurations, and optimized machine types, resulting in a more robust and secure infrastructure.Strengthened security measures and operational efficiency through the refactoring of applications to leverage Google Secrets Manager and Workload Identity; burp suite DAST, enhanced data protection and scalability, improving audit scores by 20%.Created a resilient deployment strategy by engineering a comprehensive suite of Terraform files and Helm charts for existing and new applications deployed within GCP.Saved our organization over $20,000 monthly on cloud costs by establishing a detailed asset labeling system to enhance cost analysis across diverse services, identifying key items impacting the budget, refactoring qualified applications for migration from Kubernetes to Cloud Run, adjusting requests and limits, and fostering a collaborative approach to budget management and project development to ensure efficient and effective use of cloud resources.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, Design, Pipelines, Deployments and MaintenanceBolstered security by refactoring a major in house SMS campaign application for use with workload identity and Google Secrets Manager (away from sops).Revamped the software engineering workflow by reorganizing our projects into a structured dev/test > stage > production sequence, establishing a new automated and streamlined development environment for Software Engineers. This innovative environment features cost-saving automatic scaling during off-peak hours and was carefully crafted from scratch using Terraform, Cloud Build, and Cloud Scheduler.Mitigated rising cloud costs by regular performance and budget auditing.Streamlined user onboarding and offboarding by helping to Implement CloudFlare Access for SSO across platforms, integrating GCP, utilizing Azure and AD groups. Centralized our scattered DNS management by migrating from Google and GoDaddy to Cloudflare, automating record management with external-dns with the addition of web application firewall features.

Philadelphia, Pa

Demonstrated quick mastery of Kubernetes essentials over a strategic three-month contract, enabling the deployment of key in-house applications crucial for overseeing the implementation of pioneering 10 Gb high-speed internet services across national test regions.This role boosted my automation methodology expertise, enabling skillful orchestration of large-scale deployments on an in-house Kubernetes implementation.

Philadelphia

My role expanded from Citrix specific infrastructure engineering to general data center infrastructure over the first year.On call handling of data center outages and monitoring of infrastructure.Consulting HPE support on hardware failures.Powershell, Python and other automation development.Technologies included: Citrix, VMWare, HP 3Par storage, Windows, Linux, private cloud appliances (Nutanix), Netscaler, Zerto, CommVault, CloudBolt.

Philadelphia, Pa

Managing and improving the overall Citrix and VMWare infrastructure, end user experience and accessibility.

Houston, Texas Area

Managing and improving the overall Citrix infrastructure, end user experience and accessibility.

Houston, Texas Area

Managing and improving the overall Citrix infrastructure, end user experience and accessibility.

Houston, Texas Area

Computer infrastructure project management.