Peter Burkholder Email & Phone Number

Hyattsville, Md, Us

Washington, D.C., Us

Making the easy way the compliant and secure way

2020-21: Security & Compliance Lead, cloud.gov. Led FedRAMP annual re-assessments, shepherded new offerings (cloud.gov Pages, brokered AWS Redis and Elasticsearchs, and others) through FedRAMP SCR process, planned security investments, automated monthly continuous monitoring reporting, managed POA&M remediation, led incident response, managed compliance documentation (SSP, CRM), supported customers on compliance questions, wrote security tooling including ‘caulking’ and ‘cg-compliance/audit’. Led TTS's Security & Compliance guild, building a "DevSecOps" culture with outside speakers and workshops. Replied to regulatory RFCs (requests for comments), effecting changes in policy at FedRAMP and OMB.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Platform Engineer, cloud.gov: Worked with team to run government-wide shared-service Cloud Foundry installation, using bosh, terraform, concourse, golang and Prometheus.DevRel & Sales Engineer, cloud.gov: Developed and ran workshops, designed examples, wrote documentation, conducted sales calls, and spoke at public events in support of cloud.gov, PaaS adoption and DevOps. Consulting Engineer with Federal Emergency Management Agency, Housing & Urban Development, and U.S. Marine Corps: Advised senior managers at client agencies on cybersecurity and compliance in cloud adoption, translated functional requirements into technical pilots on cloud.gov and Azure. Developed cloud migration plans for legacy systems.

Self-employed Independent consultant for @GovReady- Cloud Foundry, CircleCI, Django, Inspec, OpenControl

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a Customer Success Engineer with Chef, Inc., I worked with enterprise Chef customers to ensure a successful automation strategy and implementation, and advocated for adoption of DevOps culture.* Managed customer engineer duties for Chef with 7 major customers, representing $2.0M ARR* Expanded or maintained subscription levels for all my customers* Conducted the Chef DevOps Journey Assessment (Dojo) with three customers, generated specific one-year recommendations for accelerating delivery of business value.* Met onsite will customers 2 times per year, and every week by video conference, and daily through Slack* Architected Chef deployments for scale, reliability and security for environments with up to 10,000 nodes distributed across multiple data centers.* Developed cookbook code, plugins, bug fixes and product feature enhancements on behalf of Chef customers.* Acted as liaison between customers and Chef product team to assess opportunities in new feature development* Represented Chef at DevOpsDays (DC and Chicago), SurgeCon, LISA, local meetups and Chef events* Introduced "Birds-of-a-Feather" sessions for customers to interact, and internal Demo Days for our team

Configuration management and operation of a HIPAA-compliant social network platform: Zensey. Operated multiple development, test, and partner-integration environments in AWS EC2 configured with Chef to run identically in each environment. Designed and deployed core infrastructure to support application deployment and monitoring across the hundreds of EC2 nodes.Tools included: Puppet, Chef, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Sensu, Graphite, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, packaging (FPM, Deb), HAproxy, MySQL.Wrote or customized tools for specific needs in Ruby, Python and shell. Mastered much of the AWS ecosystem: EC2, ELB, EBS, IAM, ASG (autoscaling), RDS, Route 53, Cloudwatch, and so on.Engaged in community-building and outreach by co-organizing DevOpsDC Meetups.

Washington, Dc, Us

* Deployed open-source Nagios monitoring as alternative to commercial monitoring service, saving client $100k per year.* Implemented open-source directory services(OpenLDAP) and configuration management (Puppet), doubling our ability to manage change with less downtime.* Automated application deployments, reducing errors to near zero, and reducing deployment time by 75%* Saved client $400k by introducing options to a commercial real-user monitoring system to produce the required business intelligence* Reduced time to identify application issues through implementation of NewRelic, allowing developers to isolate issues in minutes instead of hours

Bethesda, Md, Us

With team members, manage web server and web application infrastructure of the government's busiest site.

Develop and present series of security training workshops for system administrators, software engineers and scientists at federally-funded research facility

Arlington, Virginia, Us

System administrator and web engineer. Manage all aspects of technical infrastructure for a myriad of web-based communities.

* Guided the technical infrastructure for a J2EE-based digital library as it grew from 10,000 web sessions a month to over 1,000,000 sessions a month. Administered software development life cycle and configuration management for eight production Apache Tomcat Java servlet applications. * Grew an ad-hoc collection of three servers into a rigorous infrastructure of ten RedHat Linux (RHEL) servers with Kickstart deployments. Supervised administration of 80 desktop and portable systems. * Provided outstanding customer support in Windows, Linux (Redhat), Unix (Solaris) and MacOSX environments. * Corporate service: Established myself as a technical leader within the community of system administrators at UCAR/NCAR. Served on five technical committees. Of note:

Managed the "Spyder" system on Sun Solaris 2.6 for gathering global seismic data and providing web data access. Upgraded CGI code in C and Perl for newer data formats and eliminated Y2K bugs in C, Perl and tcsh/bash code. Ran eight Linux (RedHat and Debian) workstations. Developed MySQL database for managing station and event data.

Managed a seismographic network deployed across South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana. Built a mixed Solaris, Irix and Windows network for geophysical research.

Ms, Geophysics

Ba, Physics