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New York, New York, Us

• Worked to expand our infrastructure into being multi region starting with Kubernetes• Automated AWS resource removal and monitoring to greatly reduce monthly costs• Built Grafana/Prometheus dashboards for Kubernetes services and created production monitoring for Kubernetes• Rolled out Nginx+ based load balancers with mod_security as a Web Application Firewall (WAF)• Created automated service pools by integrating with AWS Autoscale Groups and adding controls to split and balance traffic• Implemented OSSEC into Kubernetes/Docker and traditional Amazon VPC architecture• Integrated AWS Auto Scaling with Salt Cloud provisioning to deploy resilient bastion hosts• Rebuilt DNS into split-horizon architecture using Terraform to manage AWS changes• Migrated SSL infrastructure to Let’s Encrypt certs using Certbot

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Migrated from Hortonworks Hadoop 1.x to 2.3• Built potential customer facing WSGI app using Nginx, uWSGI, and Flask (a python framework)• Built and revamped monitoring infrastructure: Nagios/Icinga, Ganglia, Graphite, and DataStax OpsView• Built provisioning, building, and testing environment using Vagrant• Migrated main configuration management system to CFEngine3• Built and deployed HA MySQL using Percona• Wrote Fabric (Python framework) scripts for automation and automated deployment• Built Amazon infrastructure for scaling, fault tolerance, and latency squashing geo location: redundant DirectConnect fiber links from our infrastructure into Amazon's cloud, configured multiple VPC’s (spanning availability zones) in multiple Amazon sites with redundant IPSEC VPN links integrating them into our local infrastructure• Debugged and configured new IPSec tunnels on Juniper SRX devices between our production colo environments.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Continue support of the Meebo infrastructure to ensure reliability. Work on sun setting portions of Meebo that are no longer required and continuing to migrate remaining pieces to Google owned infrastructure.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Rebuilt XMPP clusters with newer software under Puppet control for easier management• Designed and implemented out of band network• Rebuilt IPMI system to control hosts• Implemented centralized user authentication via LDAP• Removed legacy hosts from environment by Puppetizing all services and configuring them under our new Scientific Linux 6 environment• Debugged production outages, mitigated risks, established root cause, and put into place changes to avoid problems in the future

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Systems Administrator and Dedicated Paranoid (security team member) for Yahoo! Labs. As a systems administrator I am responsible for administering both a public, and internal facing environment. I supported approximately 380 researchers spread across three geographic regions (United States, Barcelona, and Bangalore). I setup environments to the specification of research scientists to fit their research needs. As a dedicated paranoid I am responsible for ensuring code released on the production environment meet security guidelines. As a member of Research Engineering I built multiple public facing products (LAMP Stack) facilitating the goals of Yahoo! Labs.

Built up second production co-location facility, deployed high availability LDAP servers for authentication, designed and configured OSSEC configuration for host based security, built/configured load balancers for web services and Darwin streaming services, and configured Windows AD with WSUS and IAS for radius enabled wireless authentication.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Supported and administered internal ticketing system handling all communications for product customer service representatives. Built knowledge base documentation and developed automation tools to reduce amount of toil.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Developed corporate and e-commerce websites using ASP, HTML/CSS, Javascript and worked with SEO clients.

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