Ross Dickey Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

- Lead DevOps and software engineering teams- Develop and Maintain automation/tools/code for SaaS monitoring service hosted in AWS- Improve monitoring and operational posture to improve on-call experience- Manage Dev and Ops on-call rotations, meetings, and handoffs

Austin, Texas, Us

- Lead and manage DevOps engineering team handling Kubernetes clusters running Oracle's Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) product- Maintained Kanban board to track projects and metrics- Recruit and interview candidates- Manage Dev and Ops on-call rotations, meetings, and handoffs- Investigate service disruptions, write RFO/post-mortem reports, and present findings cross-org- Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure for OKE product

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Design, implement, and maintain production AWS infrastructure for two new products- Assist software development teams with AWS design and best practices- Write and maintain Chef cookbooks and environments- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix operational production issues

Austin, Tx, Us

- Maintained and upgraded RHEL production trading servers- Created automated systems to post-process market data using AWS services.- Spearheaded major systems code refactoring to implement standard DevOps practices.- Automated all the things.

Prague, Cz

- Managed AWS resources on EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, using CloudFormation and Chef- Worked with top developers to engineers and implement better solutions on AWS- White Hat security research on IoT Smart TVs looking for (and finding) security vulnerabilities- End-user password quality analysis via hacking of encrypted password hashes available publicly

- Developed Ruby-on-Rails controllers, models, and helper utility code for app/api backend- Created, improved, and managed multiple Ruby daemons for alerting subsystem, data collection and processing, website monitoring, and other tasks- Developed JavaScript code (backbone and jQuery) for single-page web GUI- Maintained and improved C- and Ruby-based monitoring agents and bash install scripts- Configured and maintained EC2 Linux servers, and Amazon Web Services including AutoScaling, ELB, S3, Route53, MySQL RDS, MongoDB, Redis using Chef, Ruby, and/or Bash as needed- Expanded automated tests for Ruby on Rails application

Garland, Texas, Us

- Led software test plan creation and execution- Wrote automated tests in Perl, Python, and Javascript- Led web server testing for customer technician portal- Developed Python and Javascript code for Linux-based patient entertainment system

Us

- Developed client-side NFS testing tool in C- Conducted technical on-site Enterprise Customer Support, including deployment and upgrade of beta-phase networked storage solution- Built/Maintained test environment for networked storage solution- Created Ubuntu and CentOS Linux build and test system automation- Documented and executed Test Plan for networked storage solution- Corporate Network administration, including Ubuntu and CentOS Linux, and FreeBSD systems and router/switch setup and maintenance

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Wrote Java tool to remotely install Software Testing and Automation Framework for Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and zOS- Updated and Improved a Java tool for internal server monitoring- Wrote JavaScript web interface for Java-based enterprise APIs- Wrote, updated, and maintained Java- and Ant-based software for testing a WebSphere product

Austin, Tx, Us

- Wrote a web based time-off calendar using Perl, MySQL, and Apache- Wrote Perl systems administration and network monitoring utilities- Built, configured, and maintained Linux and FreeBSD servers- Conducted internal technical support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris workstations