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New York, United States

New York, United States

New York City

DevOps, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Compute Engine for Vivial Holdings, LLC; Code and Theory, LLC; and Promet Source, LLC.Clients: CNN; Citi Ventures; Vivial Media, LLC; Yellow Pages; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)Building developer pipelines. Planning and executing cloud migrations. Building and/or selecting platform hosting architecture. Right-sizing compute and storage. Stakeholder communication. Fact-finding.

New York, New York, United States

Head of Devops for https://fairygodboss.com, the largest online career community for women to find jobs, advice, and support (Roughly 8 million MAU / 30 M hits/mo).Manage AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud services. Design and maintain network, storage, and compute layers. Review engineering architecture proposals. Provide developer cloud tooling. Maintain production databases. Maintain our security perimeter. Triage production issues. Manage outsourced contractors.Stability improvements:Created new infrastructure to handle HTTP traffic, increasing availability to 99.99% per month (from 97.9%). Identified and fixed email deliverability issues in SPF/DKIM.Increased error and performance visibility with logging and monitoring.Stabilized CI/CD platform and pipelines, reducing incidents from hundreds per week to 1 per month.Security improvements:Enabled HTTPS/TLS for new web services.Designed and implemented VPN solution.

New York, New York

Infrastructure lead for the CNN Magicwall 2.0. Scale out infrastructure on AWS for multiple environments using Terraform and Ansible. Provision Kafka, Zookeeper, and Redis for HA. Troubleshoot performance issues.Infrastructure lead for the Citibank Virtual Card Application. Provision infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible. Troubleshoot performance issues.Build CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, ECS on AWS.Identify best practices for agency operations on AWS. Implement a billing tagging strategy to identify unknown resources. Saved a projected $120,000k/year on AWS bills.

Greater New York City Area

Returned on contract as a PHP developer to assist with backend integration of the Facebook Marketing API into the company's main SaaS (https://vivial.net/about/news/vivial-adds-facebook-advertising-to-saas-platform-capabilities/)Migrated the Localvox/Nearsay application and all environments from a third-party platform to AWS using Terraform and Ansible.Develop, maintain, and monitor infrastructure for the company's main SaaS on AWS, including multiple environments for two monolithic PHP applications, one monolithic Python application, and a handful of nodejs and python microservices. Troubleshoot performance issues. Perform root cause analysis. Train developers on system architecture.

Contractor working with USDA EAS through Heartland Technology Group and PrometSource.Co-architected and developed a new hosting platform for Drupal sites, using Salt Stack for configuration management, Docker for packaging and provisioning, and RHEL 7 as the host operating system. Provide utility Drupal administration/development as needed. Engineered a virtual staging lab using Vagrant and CentOS to emulate target infrastructure. Developed an alternative Vagrant box for Docker based project deployment for existing USDA Drupal projects.Accomplishments▪ Launched Phase 1 of the Drupal Enterprise Platform for USDA EAS with Ron Williams (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronwilliamsio).▪ https://github.com/usda-ocio-eas/gov-drupal▪ https://github.com/usda-ocio-eas/gov-drupal-dev▪ https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/pull/654▪ https://github.com/docker/toolbox/pull/117

Nyc

Identify technical debt for the recently acquired startup by Vivial (formerly The Berry Company). Identify architectural bottlenecks in existing applications. Document application processes and recommend new implementation patterns.

New York Cty

Foster personal growth and development with engineers. Work with the Director of Product on backlog prioritization. Communicate with key stakeholders on internal deliverables and strategies. Identify and fix key performance issues with existing code and architecture.Accomplishments▪ Reduced developer lead time from 1 month to 1 week using Vagrant.▪ Increased performance of the existing code and architecture by roughly 80%.▪ Implemented PSR-3 verbose logging in Drupal 7 to provide live analysis of legacy products.

Greater New York City Area

Manage day-to-day engineering efforts, setting development schedules for the project and prioritizing tasks and reviewing deliverables. Communicate and enforce the best technical approach that will best meet the objectives of the project. Identify best practices across projects. Incorporate best practices into the overarching company workflow. Lead and perform code publishing and hand-off tasks, including code merges and client walkthroughs. Identify new external development resources. Provide training and guidance to junior developers.Accomplishments▪ Shepherded numerous potentially failed projects as Technical Project Manager to launch, focusing on the iron triangle of project management and goal-oriented bug triage.▪ Introduced Vagrant and self-contained developer environments to the production workflow.▪ Provided analysis and recommendations for Continuous Integration (CI) strategies.▪ Recommended and successfully launched the Atlassian toolset (JIRA and Confluence) into the production workflow, documenting and providing persuasive arguments for and against the toolset.▪ Architected and developed a wireframe/design annotation tool that integrates into Atlassian’s JIRA REST API, providing a 1-to-1 correlation between designs and Scrum Stories/subtasks. The application stack used OAuth, Composer, Silex, and JQuery. The working prototype was finished in 10 days.

Nyc

Gather functional requirements from design mockups and provide bottom-up, feature-based estimates for Drupal projects. Provide technical analysis and guidance to stakeholders on hosting capacity, infrastructure, networking, high-availability, data models, and scalability. Manage small teams of subcontractors and service providers for brochureware websites. Educate developers on domain-specific and language-specific design patterns for projects based in PHP, Drupal, LAMP, and C#. Design and architect iOS (iPhone, iPad) web applications using HTML 5, CSS 3, jQuery, PURE.js, JSON and REST. Create and manage code repositories in Git, Subversion, and/or Mercurial. Manage project documentation in Basecamp, Trac, Fogbugz, and Bitbucket. Provide emergency issue resolution, advanced debugging, and bug squashing for new and existing projects.Accomplishments▪ Developed and architected a web-based iPad point-of-sale system for Jin Ramen restaurant.▪ Architected the information systems and web presence for Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Deploy and configure test and development servers using CentOS 5+, Ubuntu 6+, Apache, Tomcat, Jrun, ColdFusion, Postfix, IPTABLES, PHP, Perl, and Drupal CMS. Research and implement performance monitoring solutions with JMeter, Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool, Zenoss, and Zabbix. Perform process core dumps for the Linux kernel to troubleshoot runaway/high load applications. Identify and monitor network traffic using packet sniffing software such as TCPDUMP and Wireshark for network performance and security monitoring and diagnostics. Handle both the management and technical aspects of large-scale web-based projects for the school from beginning to end. Develop specifications, evaluate vendors, coordinate responsibility and workflow with internal and external constituencies. Develop programs, applications, and databases using Java, ColdFusion, PHP, Perl, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Hibernate, ASP .NET. Develop testing plans and implement testing. Develop and maintain School applications and databases. Troubleshoot application and database issues. Maintain the Alumni Relations web site and alumni email campaigns. Accomplishments▪ Provide technical leadership to teammates to address unexpected and complex application or system behavior and provides alternate solutions to correct issues.▪ Provide evangelism for new technologies and techniques that foster individual and team improvement.▪ As lead developer, implemented version 1.0 of the Business School’s Social Network strategy with Alumni. Successfully launched v1.0 by May 2008.▪ As lead developer and architect, planned and implemented version 2.0 of the Business School’s Social Network strategy. Successfully launched v2.0 by December 2008 and integrated the application with Alumni by May 2009.