Paul Edler Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Projects completed under my direction have led to substantial reductions in hosting costsamounting to over half a million dollars per year, improvements in platform stability and simplification of new feature deployment. In addition to leading all aspects of the Postmedia Digital cloud, I am deeplyinvolved in the decision making process for the future of our digital landscape.● Full cloud migration from AWS to GCP with no downtime● Modernization of application hosting to Kubernetes● Reduction of content scraping by bad bots● Improvement of search engine efficiency● Streamlined incident communication to top level management

Oversaw all aspects of the Postmedia Digital cloud, from planning there-architecture and consolidation of legacy systems, maintaining operationalstatus, to scoping business needs into functional products.● Application hosting migrated away from expensive vendor to in house● Created page view analytics pipelines● Streamlined CICD process● Trained new and existing team members● Promoted a culture of trust and cooperation● Right-sized existing vendor solutions

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stabilized the infrastructure of a sub company which was later sold.● Removed infrastructure snowflakes via IAC● Built a logging and metrics system to identify problems

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Worked on several POCs for big data computing including Cloudera Impala and DCOS (Apache MESOS)

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

Responsible for deploying a modern infrastructure monitoring system based on Hadoop, OpenTSDB, Bosun, ElasticSearch and Logstash. Oversaw all aspects of the project from development through to production deployment. Coordinated with networking, db, and operations teams to diagnose, solve, and prevent recurrence of general production system problems. Migrated development environment from physical to virtual systems.

Managed a team of 10 individuals responsible for ensuring system stability and quality in a production environment. Ensured client requests were handled in an effective and timely manner. Contributed to the evolution of the system’s quality management.

Tokyo

Responsible for ensuring production environment stability and quality using tools such as Nagios and Splunk. Involved with triage, troubleshooting, follow-up and resolution of system impacting issues. Occasionally, travelled to client sites to provide on site troubleshooting and repair of physical devices.

Kanagawa, Japan

Managing, interviewing teachers. Developing curriculum. IT support.

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

I taught English to a variety of students ranging in ages from 16 to retired, and skill levels from beginner to near native.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Networks

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Molecular Genetics

Genetics and bioinformatics