Peter Kahn🏳️‍⚧️ Email & Phone Number

Southborough, Ma, Us

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

I’m excited to start at SWIRL later this month. I’ll be working on CICD and general Devops tasks in support of a great project with a solid team. I look forward to writing and building with the team

Plantation, Florida, Us

As a part of a small and powerful release engineering team I'm working on infrastructure management via terraform, documentation of processes to improve internal customer effectiveness, refactoring of Jenkins shared library to support faster development via solid unit and system testing, helping implement pipeline-as-a-service project while focused on friction reduction to balance velocity with safety. Most of the work happens in Jenkins/shared libs, groovy, python, ansible, github actions, and terraform.

San Jose, California, Us

Continue to work on desktop, build service, and deployment automation to make the difficult trivial and the complex easily understood.- on demand test environment easily materializes SAAS and virtual shipped systems plus integrates with various testing systems (components: AWS ECS, python, jenkins, terraform, ansible)- Artifactory/jenkins/Python promotion system manages SDLC for shipped software- Kernel package monitoring system to drive CI/CD pipeline- Config driver deployment orchestrates microservice deployments to AWS ECS clusters- Centralized build logic in jenkins shared library utilizing JenkinsUnit and SpockFramework for desktop testing (with coverage) vs Jenkins-as-IDE pattern- Started video training library to scale better across timezone (remote wasn't the challenge I expected)- Helped build up team from 1 to 4 and handle planning as we reduce down to 3 members (mentoring, documentation, knowledge transfer, planning)

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Edgewise’s Zero Trust Auto-Segmentation delivers impossibly simple microsegmentation in one click. Driven by machine learning, Edgewise automatically builds policies that protect any application in any cloud, without any changes to your network. We provide measurable improvement by quantifying attack path risk reduction and verifying software identity before it communicates — to stop application compromise and data breaches. Gartner has recognized Edgewise as a 2018 Cool Vendor. To see how you can eliminate network attack surface, please visit https://www.edgewise.net/.I've been working on release engineering and #devops- Automated environment provisioning & testing- Automated build promotion via Artifactory- Additional release pipeline automation- Dev on Demand - easily create/destroy a cloud component and agent environment with one click (one click is somewhat a theme for us Edgewisers)

Working at the intersection between development, QA and program management, my team and I maintained, improved and created new systems to help people do their jobs more effectively by providing easily digestible information to the right people at the right time. Focusing around continuous integration / continuous delivery with automation using Groovy, Java, Gradle and Jenkins to move the build/release to a more seamless process with machines handling the grunt work so people can focus on design and decision making.- Used TDD process to create and maintain Gradle plugin for build orchestration and release automation allowing integration with SCM, Atlassian suite and Jenkins. System handled: Space difference reports, RC publication, Branch difference reports, patch system, process cleaning etc.- Transformed simple patch process into continuous delivery system integrated with Jenkins, Jira and Confluence with built in promotion and notification.- Setup automated just-in-time deployment of firefox / chrome browsers matched to selenium driver versions on Windows and Linux with process cleanup ensuring no rogue processes destabilized builds.- Automated blackduck intellectual property scan, identification and third party notification publication to reduce effort required and avert license issues earlier in development lifecycle.- Developed scmSynchronizer to work around lack of branch reporting between jira and github enterprise using SCMActivity plugin.- Developed release engineering team talent via one-on-one mentoring, coaching, demonstrations and setting up third party training.- With input from management and release team, charted strategic course for Release Engineering team.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

Continue to work the the same talented team for a new company. I expect new collaborators and challenges as we integrate approaches. Stream lining build/release processes, reducing maintenance costs and increasing time for innovation continue to be my goals. Better builds, infrastructure management and sharing of components across teams are key parts of the puzzle. In addition, I hope to continue to improve understanding and visualization of release processes.

Working with a talented team of people to create, maintain and evolve development collaboration environments focusing on builds, source control, issue tracking and how these come together to improve team effectiveness. The goal is to see what improvements can be made to get the right people the right information at the right time.

Via the LAMP stack I have built and enhanced ecommerce sites for small business.http://www.bolagrp.com/

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Looking at what people need to do their jobs better with a focus on the build system, source control, issue tracking and how these come together to improve team effectiveness. The goal is to see what improvements can be made to get the right people the right information at the right time.Source Control: SvnBuild Systems: ant, maven, hudson, sonarPrimary Language: java

My goals are to strive for simplicity, make it easier for people to do their jobs, and improve the organization's ability to detect problems early in the process.Datasynapse has a fairly complex build environment with builds requiring artifacts be constructed on many platforms and then assembled into a final product. GridServer, DataSynapse's flagship product, is used to accomplish this feat. The build tasks are farmed out to a grid of machines with the results collected and assembled into the final product.At Datasynapse, I have been automating the build process to provide reliable builds with easily understood metrics that allow developers to drive towards higher quality. I have also been working to provide systems to enhance understanding of the build and tools involved. (Jira, Confluence, Opengrok)

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Designed, implemented and maintained systems to run the software production line, improve code health, and increase the efficiency of individual contributors. The majority of systems are built using a common modular framework written in python. In addition, I developed and maintained information systems to improve organization memory.

Refactor our software development environment while maintaining production schedules. Migrated from an inflexible collaboration environment to a more efficient one with Svn, Jira, Confluence and Jenkins to improve efficiency.

• Designed and implemented wireless palm synchronization application which worked with a java servlet back end.• Automated complex cross platform build system and refactored it from platform specific scripts & makefiles to a cross platform perl system with unified scripts that control Windows applications via OLE, Macintosh application via on-the-fly generated applescript, and unix applications via the command line.• Addressed design problems with and improved efficiency of complex asynchronous real time busy time system.• Improved load simulation/modeling tools to replicate customer performance problems, devise fixes and verify their efficacy.• Improved efficiency of Palm Conduits on Macintosh and Windows and wrote several Palm applications.• Added functionality to RPC pathway between client side API and Server.• Detailed analysis on product limits and performance issues.• Fixed product defects and implemented features on native and java components.

Developing new features, debugging complex problems at customer sites, documenting processes and developing tools to improve our ability to deliver software.

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• Repaired defects and improved feature set in existing code base (database editor/analysis tool, admin side API ).• Maintained, documented, automated, and improved efficiency of multiplatform build environment.• Added automated error parsing, email notification and load balancing to improve throughput of build environment.• Fixes bugs in Macintosh, Windows, and Unix installers.• Evaluated for implementation, alternative revision control systems [PVCS and VSS] .• Provided in depth database analysis.• Trained developers on use of debugging and build process of Meeting Maker.• Improved the load simulation suite, ported it to Solaris, and setup test environment for communications hunt down scalability issues.• Developed and implemented training seminars for technical support and QA departments.• Provided emergency virtual 24x7 development support for enterprise level customers.• Set up testing lab for data analysis and replication of customer environments.

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• Provided telephone support and on site consulting for enterprise level customer sites.• Debugged complex configuration problems on the supported platforms.• Analyzed databases, examined logs, used diagnostic and repair tools to rectify database problems.• Wrote many technotes detailing complicated upgrade procedures, maintenance processes, network/firewall configurations, protocol and platform specific troubleshooting .• Provided 7x24 support for enterprise level sites.• Spearheaded load simulation and scenario creation for testing of complex communications issues.• Created unix shell scripts for data analysis, performance tuning, and server monitoring.• Maintained and managed the corporate FTP site for anonymous, customer partner accounts and development partner accounts.• Trained/mentored technical support representatives in product, platform, and protocol specifics.• Provided sales with technical training and site specific configuration information.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Worked with Asia Technical Department as a primary network researcher, multimedia designer, and Internet information coordinator for the project.• Collaborated with design team to create a prototype for demonstrations combining desktop video, audio, and hypertext with Geographic Information Systems and statistical analysis packages.• Evaluated and planned equipment purchases to take the prototype to the next phase of development.

• Assisted in the production of audio/visual and printed graphic presentations to explain EPA programs.• Administered Appleshare Ethernet network of Macintosh computers utilized for high end graphic design and page layout.• Coordinated resources and personnel in simultaneous production of projects with tight deadlines and under high quality control standards.• Maintained hardware and software for Macintosh systems.• Evaluated technical products, such as desktop video applications, and multi-sight networking hardware and connection scenarios.

Ma, International Relations And Resource Environmental Management

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government

Ba, Political Science