• Grew and managed the Site Reliability Engineering team at Shippo, starting 3 months after creation and doubled the team size over the first year.• Built out a hiring pipeline and interviewed until selection for a manager to form an EU SRE team.• Mentored and sponsored engineer’s growth and carrier advancement.• Advocated and collaborated toward the implementation of the Ownership Model.• Guided improvements to on-call rotation, process, and incident response.• Acquired and managed vendors including cloud infrastructure, certificate management, and telemetry.• Reassessed telemetry solutions to move in a direction providing more productivity and visibility for development teams.• Investigated, defined, and reported on the infrastructure component for SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2.• Planned, prioritized, and drove forward projects, including migrations to EKS, Cloudflare, automated Terraform pipeline, ArgoCD, and Okta federation into AWS.• Leveraged platform engineering principles to deliver a self service architecture.• Balanced “Keep the lights on” business needs and facilitated development team’s interaction with cloud infrastructure against driving down technical debt and implementing modern solutions to move faster.• Directed the managers of Enterprise Security and SecDevOps.• Coordinated rightsizing security initiatives.• Facilitated cost optimization exercise, targeting a 20% reduction in cloud resources and software.

• Formed, grew, and managed the Development Operations team at Hover as we expanded from 25 employees to 350.• Planned and managed AWS to GCP migration, targeting Google Kubernetes Engine for applications along with Cloud SQL, MemoryStore and GCS.• Integrated Cloudflare with applications and infrastructure, using security, DNS, CDN, and edge Worker solutions.• Investigated and planned adoption of a service mesh within Kubernetes clusters.• Leveraged tagging and DoiT Cloud Analytics to deliver cost reports to Finance and application owners.• Created and maintained a Go web api for processing images against a Caffe neural network, a web api for an in-house computer vision C++ library, and a wrapper for Caffe.• Created and maintained a Go daemon that managed deployments and another that handled scheduling AWS ECS tasks, that ran Resque, based on queue depth pulled from Redis.• Architected and maintained highly available and secure production, test, and qa environments in Amazon EC2, with ECS, ELB, RDS, Elasticache, CloudFront, S3, Route53, Lambda, and Fargate.• Only infrastructure engineering resource for four years.• Handled vetting candidates for on-site interviews and revised the interview process as the team grew.• Coordinated infrastructure concerns around penetration testing and compliance to achieve SOC2.• Remotely coordinated with organization groups for five years.• Traced and fixed memory leaks in existing internal C++ libraries.• Optimized Ruby on Rails applications performance.• Created and maintained a log aggregation utility on AWS Lambda.• Migrated production, test and qa infrastructure from AWS Opsworks to Docker and AWS ECS.• Created and maintained internal Hubot utilities.• Optimized Docker images with Alpine linux.

• Managed the work product of the Development Operations team.• Created and maintained a Rails application that managed the deployment pipeline.• Created a Node.js package wrapping libgrok.• Extended and optimized a Node.js implementation of logstash.• Created and maintained Ruby daemons to facilitate inter-server communication and replication. • Setup Hubot with existing tools bringing inherent communication to the deployment process.• Migrated environments to utilize AWS OpsWorks via Chef.• Architected and maintained highly available and secure production and test environments in Amazon EC2, with ELB and RDS, via Asgard, Zookeeper, and Chef.• Utilized CloudFormation Init via Ruby command line application to prepare for Chef, run cookbooks, and save AMIs.• Created and maintained Chef cookbooks for custom internal applications and a SSO service.• Created, updated, and extended open source Chef cookbooks for asgard, eureka, redis, tomcat, unattended upgrades, and zookeeper.• Contributed a feature to Netflix Asgard to integrate with AWS IAM profiles.

• Developed and Maintained behavioral analytics applications for e-commerce sites using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Javascript.• Developed and maintained a data analysis engine and reporting system.• Researched and implemented performance tuning of applications and systems architecture.• Setup, migrated to, and maintained production and test environments in Amazon EC2, with ELB and RDS, via Cloud Formation. Reduced infrastructure costs while responding to changing international needs.• Scripted EC2 AMI creation with Ruby.• Integrated Amazon SQS, S3, SNS, and Cloudfront into production applications.• Created a Ruby API for production application.• Refactored custom Javascript data mining library.• Ruby on Rails applications refactored to fix adverse performance.• Created a Safari extension to streamline testing of internal applications.• Improved code maintenance by migrating to more concise dependent libraries.• Worked with clients to optimize the application performance in their unique web environments.• Responded to changing customer needs in the development path of applications.• Setup and maintained application deployment processes utilizing Capistrano.• Created application prototype in Sproutcore.• Integrated RabbitMQ/AMPQ for application interconnectivity and asynchronous processing.• Migrated version control system from Subversion to Git.

• Migrated original application environment to IOS.• Create RPGrounds, a 3D virtual tabletop cross-platform application using C++ with Boost and Ogre3d libraries.

Created, maintained, and supported iPhone applications released on Apple’s App Store.• Voice Memos• Birth Buddy

• Help form IS department, including infrastructure and process implementation.• Setup Ruby on Rails development, testing and production environment including versioning and application updating processes.• Maintained live production servers setup with Apache 2.2 proxy to a mongrel cluster, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Memcache session storage and an internal ruby gem server.• Developed www.aspyr.com, gothic3.aspyr.com, www.iquizmaker.com, and www.aspyrstudios.com in Ruby on Rails, with back-end management system.• Amazon S3 integration with production applications bringing significant savings on bandwidth cost including a departmental management tool for the service.• Researched potential advantages of utilizing Amazon EC2 within a production environment.• Developed and maintaining internal financial and business applications, as well as external pre-production web sites and production web services in Ruby on Rails.

• Developed email validation ruby gem: http://rubyforge.org/projects/validatesemail.• Converted open source rails memcache session expiration plugin to a ruby gem: http://rubyforge.org/projects/dyn-session-exp.• Developed www.dkamsi.com in Ruby on Rails with back-end management system.• Developed several internal Rails applications.• Gave a presentation of Ruby on Rails to a Java users group.• Implemented an e-commerce solution in WebObjects. • Developed modules for open source based customer relations management self-service portal in PHP.• Converted application to Ruby on Rails.• Experimented with Python and Ruby.

• Designed and implemented web applications for internal use utilizing ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, and Microsoft SQL. • Developed a VBScript in quick response to virus containment. • Programed web based user interface for a change control system and support webpage. • Designed and implemented an issue tracking utility and a company wide commission processing and approval application.

• Coordinate team of five to complete project within given time frame, and to assure work quality. • Wrote a Windows Host Script, using vbscript, increasing system backup, restore, and configuration productivity by 40%. • Deploy and configured 700 Dell desktop systems at Darnel Military Community Hospital, Fort Hood, TX. • Performed user data backup and migration to Dell Windows XP Desktops. • Configured system and software to Darnel’s specifications. • Connected systems to campus network and configured network services and printers. • Image drives using Norton Ghost 7.0.

• Planned and developed a web implementation of a reservations system. • Selected tools and methods to implement www.spacecoastadventuretours.com. • Programmed in PHP and JavaScript as well as • Researched conversion of existing infrastructure to WebObjects. • Designed SQL database.

• Optimizing, troubleshooted, maintained, installed and configured internal and client networks. • Troubleshooted, diagnosed, and repaired employee desktop systems.• Built and configured client servers.• Network switch and router configuration. • Migrated company from Windows NT to Windows 2000. • Configured and managed Internet Information Services, and Microsoft Exchange 2000. • Expanded network infrastructure to accommodate growth. • Contributed to system design and configuration of new product. • Utilized Norton Ghost 6.0 Enterprise to deploy customer systems.