Building queer social media infrastructure. Maintaining 100% uptime multiple times a day.* Extensive use of CDK (TypeScript), including automated testing and deployment* ECS, EKS, EC2, ETC.* Cassandra, Postgres, EMQ* Single-handedly building many various infrastructure projects to support upwards of 35 million users. Web frontends, event brokers, API backends, database migrations, etc.* Several years of Terraform, but have since migrated to CDK* Consistent, unending use of AWS, perhaps in unhealthy amounts.

- Extensive use of Serverless.com framework for deployment of AWS Stepfunctions, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB, ECS, EC2, etc. using a variety of CloudFormation templates and Python/NodeJS.- Building dynamic idempotent deployment systems using AWS CodeBuild and CodePIpeline - Writing bespoke Serverless.com plugins to improve development iteration time and workflow- Building SQL queries and data visualizations to assist with business intelligence. - Extensive exposure to many facets of AWS, including full access to production accounts.- Architecting and building recovery workflows for specific production failures.- Predominantly remote work, fully autonomous.

Data analysis using Python Pandas, SQL, TableauWrite Python applications to compile Pandas data frames from multiple data sources (SQL, CSV, Excel, JSON) to provide aggregated viewsAutomate daily/weekly tasks using PythonLead weekly and monthly meetings with stakeholders and site leadersSupport the site management team by optimizing the staffing requirements that fit site’s needsActively engage with queues and routing mechanisms to make proactive changes for long term trends, as well as real time adjustments for events that occurCreate daily level capacity plan for a site and resolves the differences of this plan to the monthly plan provided by the global capacity planning teamMitigate capacity risks of that site by managing dependencies across multiple operating units. Clearly communicate dependencies to the site lead and manage/track exceptionsCoordinate with local site operations and the global capacity planning team to analyze historical data and forecast demand for that siteManage the analyses of daily, weekly, and monthly reporting of site performance via Key Performance Indicators (e.g., service level)Build a strong relationship with the site operations team to ensure proper execution of the capacity plan as well as provides general education regarding to the best workflow management practicesProvide the optimal workflow and capacity planning solutions for the upcoming initiatives and new service launches at that site

· Intimate knowledge of AWS BigData Services: · DynamoDB specialization · Kinesis · Elasticsearch · EMR · ML· Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs· Interact with leading technologists around the world· Work directly with Amazon Web Service architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues· Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services· Drive customer communication during critical events· Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience· Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the customer community· Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services

Architecting and building event-driven elastic auto-scaling infrastructure on AWS EC2/ECS with a focus on Spring Boot microservices and APIsOrchestrating supporting stack services (Redis, RabbitMQ, Logstash, custom workers, queuing and ingestion)Designing, orchestrating, and maintaining full-stack immutable deployment methodologies on AWSWorking closely with developers to design application-specific infrastructure, to-spec dev environments, and continuous integration pipelines Real-time integration of meaningless buzzwords.

Linux support technician assisting clients with Linux server administration: troubleshooting, backups, VoIP, on-site repairs/assistance.