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Arlington, Virginia, Us

Lead growing groups of engineers responsible for core company platform and work. Mentor junior level engineers, helping them achieve desired levels of technical and work experience, knowledge, and skills. Serve as technical expert in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, and cloud operations.- Oversee infrastructure and engineering architectural decisions, devising robust solutions to maintainscalability, reliability, and maintainability for a top 500 trafficked USA site.- Ensure cloud platform is performant and observable, leading and implementing robust monitoring and logging systems and related training, allowing infrastructure and software engineers insight into their platform and applications.- Create short and long-term roadmaps for organization, allowing clear, prioritized paths to meeting goals and achieving team and company success.- Provide professional development plans, career advice, and mentorship to a wide range of engineersfrom the junior to senior level.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led team of high performing DevOps engineers responsible for a wide breadth of infrastructure and services. Mentor junior level engineers, helping them achieve desired levels of technical and work experience, knowledge, and skills. Serve as technical lead for the infrastructure team.- Devised quarterly and yearly plans and budgets, preparing the team and organization for the highestpriority and most impactful work for the future.- Hired senior and junior level engineers and helped streamline our interview process, ensuring both the candidates and company have a successful experience.- Improved cross team communications by introducing embedded infrastructure engineers, creatingopen lines of communication and discussion between the infrastructure and application developmentteams, allowing more precise and clear planning for work.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Technical lead of team of senior engineers responsible for the infrastructure, DevOps and SRE practices, and security of Axios infrastructure, including a top 1,000 domestic website in axios.com.- Planned, spearheaded, and executed migration of CI/CD infrastructure and pipelines from self-hosted Jenkins to CircleCI, increasing deployment stability and lowering time to delivery and server maintenance.- Designed and implemented automated process using CircleCI and Node.js to check site speed using Lighthouse CI on all PRs and commits running, allowing engineers to receive immediate feedback on how their code affects site performance.- Deployed cluster-wide Kubernetes authentication using Traefik and Google OAuth, allowing internal applications to be protected and only accessible by Axios employees, removing the need for basic auth everywhere in our infrastructure.- Architected and built Flask application for developer use that utilizes Helm, kubectl, the CircleCI API, websockets and more, abstracting away complex infrastructure commands, allowing developers to easily take gated actions on CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure.

Berkeley, California, Us

Led team of high performing junior to staff level engineers, responsible for Gatsby's integration of 3rd party systems, consistently delivering value to the open source and commercial products.- Provided career advice, professional development paths, and mentorship to a wide range of engineers from the junior to staff level.- Organized and led large cross functional, international team of engineers and product managers delivering entirely new Gatsby related benchmarking site and backend, providing significant benefit to Gatsby users.- Updated and streamlined onboarding process, supporting new engineers and allowing seamless integration into the engineering organization.

Berkeley, California, Us

Delivered high quality code and improved functionality across all areas of the technology stack, from Kubernetes administration to Node.js microservice development, providing a stable and scalable experience for SaaS application users.- Devised and implemented a TypeScript service utilizing Kubernetes Jobs to run thousands of build processes across multiple clusters in order to gather benchmark data on application and Kubernetes cluster performance.- Designed and created Node.js TypeScript microservice running on Kubernetes and utilizing Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, responsible for running, reporting on, and archiving hundreds of thousands of Lighthouse reports.- Served as an expert on the team responsible for managing, monitoring, and administering a multi-cluster GKE Kubernetes environment running thousands of customer pods, utilizing tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Google Cloud Build, CircleCI, and Kustomize among others, ensuring maximum uptime, scalability, and performance of the SaaS application.- Instrumented production PostgreSQL database with Stackdriver error reporting and alerting and PGHero, allowing insights into critical database performance metrics such as CPU usage, slow queries, missing indices, and more.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Lead infrastructure team responsible for architecting, scaling, monitoring and maintaining axios.com, an Alexa top 5,000 website. Contributed to all aspects of technology stack, ensuring high quality, production code always. Mentored and developed a team of professional engineers.- Drove company move to Kubernetes on EKS from ECS, standardizing application platforms across teams.- Established sound CI/CD principles across all engineering teams, utilizing tooling such as Jenkins X, allowing for full and automated deployment of applications.- Created Node.js Express application providing automatically generated monitoring around incidents, allowing increased observability into applications during pageable events.- Utilized Terraform for all resource creation, thereby normalizing infrastructure setup across the engineering organization.- Produced high quality, cross platform Go CLI used for deployment smoke testing, providing further confidence in automated CI/CD process.- Built CLI for internal engineering use leveraging Python, allowing developers to create, destroy and scale development infrastructure at will, providing teams with power to own their own infrastructure.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Served as lead developer, architecting and implementing solutions utilizing Python, AWS,GCP, and more, instilling engineering best practices company-wide. Provide mentorship and direction to team of engineers and analysts.- Maintained company AWS and GCP infrastructure and applications utilizing services such as RDS, S3, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk; GCE, GKE, Google Storage and more.- Enhanced application setup and deployment utilizing multi-stage Docker builds and Kubernetes deployments, creating repeatable and reproducible development and production environments.- Implemented robust K8s and AWS infrastructure monitoring system utilizing Prometheus,Grafana and the EFK stack.- Designed and implemented user datastore API utilizing Python, Flask and PostgreSQL, providing sub-100ms access to user profile information, greatly increasing application performance.- Created, updated and optimized complex PostgreSQL functions and triggers written in PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl and PL/v8.- Converted large series of cron jobs to Airflow DAGs, providing insight into job statuses, timing and performance.- Designed and implemented series of Selenium tests utilizing Cucumber and WebdriverIO, automating end-to-end application testing utilizing Browserstack, increasing website reliability.

Denver, Co, Us

Provided leadership and direction to team of data engineers evolving and maintaining data warehouse and ETL infrastructure. Advanced company data and analytics framework using cutting edge technologies and methodologies.- Engineered ETL pipeline utilizing Apache Airflow, Python, SQL, Spark on Amazon EMR, and numerous other AWS services, processing hundreds of millions of records daily for analytical use.- Integrated numerous 3rd party SaaS advertising APIs including The Trade Desk, Google AdWords and Facebook Marketing Ads using Python leveraging a comprehensive task queue created with Celery and RabbitMQ.- Created data warehouse API consumed by critical internal systems employing GraphQL, Django, and django-graphene.- Implemented database caching layer using PgPool, EC2, ElastiCache, and ELB thereby increasing data warehouse query speed by 10x.- Spearheaded group-wide CI/CD and testing procedures leveraging CircleCI and Ansible greatly reducing deployment effort and increasing test coverage across multiple projects.

Denver, Co, Us

Created from scratch the database architecture, ETL design and data modeling for all aspects of company-wide data warehouse, furnishing indispensable analytics required for crucial business decisions.- Architected multi-TB company data warehouse and analytics infrastructure, providing stakeholders with valuable knowledge used to make critical business decisions.- Designed data warehouse facts and dimensions including conformed, slowly-changing, junk, and degenerate, using industry standard star schema modeling techniques.- Designed, engineered, and tested data warehouse front-end and in-house API using Python, Django and pytest.- Created scraper utilizing Python and Selenium used to extract data from various 3rd party websites.

Denver, Co, Us

Lead and mentored team of database architects, business intelligence professionals and reporting analysts, using data to provide the company with a comprehensive analytics infrastructure using the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack and Tableau. Worked cross-functionally with business owners and executive team to identify key data and software projects, resulting in requirements and technical documentation.- Formed and maintained strategic cross-departmental relationships, to ensure that all data and reporting needs were thoroughly understood, resulting in the highest of quality analytics.- Utilized Talend Open Studio ETL to transfer data to an AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance, allowing offshore analysts to access select company data in a secure and efficient manner.- Provided executive team with in-depth analysis of complicated employee schedule and payroll data, resulting in the streamlining of process leading to company savings of over $600,000.- Architected and created API using Node.js, and LoopBack used to power the company website which serves over 3 million users and 27 million pageviews yearly.

Denver, Co, Us

Architected enterprise data warehouse, including schema design and ETL. Designed, developed and maintained critical internal databases, reporting and applications.- Produced ad-hoc and standing financial and operational reporting and analysis using T-SQL, Tableau, SSRS, and Highcharts.- Utilized expert SSIS knowledge to extract, transform, and load sales data from many separate SQL Server databases, providing aggregated data for use in company reporting.- Leveraged Python and MongoDB expertise to ingest hundreds of thousands of tweets and perform sentiment analysis in order to provide marketing with actionable insights into social opinion.- Designed, developed and implemented customer facing iPad kiosk using Python, Django, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and the Ionic framework, used by over 350,000 clients.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Created advanced ETL packages using SSIS, SQL, C# and Python, interacting with various datasources. Identified patterns in large sets of data, improving logic in audit processes, increasing the opportunity for revenue recovery.- Devised a process with SSIS, C#, and Python used to download and parse over 34,000 XML files from a Sharepoint site and insert pertinent data into a SQL Server database, equipping product stakeholders with the data necessary to increase audit productivity.- Developed and maintained a library of professional SSRS reports, providing critical business intelligence to departmental employees and management.- Created and maintained a series of ETL packages instrumental in all data extraction and audit functions using advanced SQL, SSIS, and Python techniques.

Louisville, Co, Us

Managed Royalty Department of analysts responsible for preparing, producing, analyzing, reviewing and auditing hundreds of monthly and quarterly participation statements.- Reassessed and improved numerous department and companywide processes including departmental budgeting, executive reporting, royalty data processing and AP invoice receiving.- Produced ad-hoc and standing financial reports used by the Director of Internal Reporting and other executives by querying Oracle and SQL Server databases using various SQL language techniques.- Acted as liaison between VP of Operations, Director of IT and Accounting ensuring precise invoicing and reporting of sales and retailer charges based upon contracted terms.- Reviewed, audited, reconciled and processed licensed and digital product income payments.- Formed and maintained successful business relationships with high profile contract partners such as NBC Universal, ABC Family, Reebok, Discovery Channel, Universal Music, Vivendi Entertainment and Magnolia Entertainment.- Developed and maintained a financial database web interface using Oracle, SQL Server, C# and ASP.NET technologies, thereby reorganizing and streamlining financial data distribution and reporting throughout the company.

Louisville, Co, Us

Managed and organized catalog of thousands of distribution, royalty and retailer contracts ensuring timely and accurate payments, analysis and reporting.- Provided Director of Mergers & Acquisitions with key sales and contract payment reporting utilizing Dynamics GP, Diver, SQL and advanced Excel techniques used to make vital acquisition decisions.- Ensured accuracy of hundreds of thousands of lines of monthly sales source data used for internal and external royalty reporting for both studio partners and executives.- Instrumental in department’s success in transition from Excel based financial reporting to implementation of Media Maestro, including receiving Oracle certification training and serving as the Oracle DBA.

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