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Morrisville, Pa, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Team Lead of a global 10-person team utilizing Scrum.Evaluated employee performance every month and coached and trained 10 team members, increasing the quality of work and employee motivation.Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans, and follow-up procedures.Developed a high-performing team by recruiting top talent, providing ongoing training, and fostering a positive work environment.Collaborated with cross-functional departments to drive cohesive efforts towards common goals and objectives.Used Litmus Chaos to stress-test internal components and cluster configuration to ensure SLAs are not breached, reducing hours of manual checkouts.Managed and contributed to a GitOps engine (Argo CD) deploying thousands of applications to hundreds of cloud and on-premise Kubernetes clusters.Defined and maintained a configuration strategy for Kubernetes clusters and applications using Helm and Kustomize to support environment variance across hundreds of production clusters.Created idempotent pipelines to automatically deploy standard components to vanilla Kubernetes clusters such as namespaces, resource quotas, CRDs, security scanners, telemetry components, and Istio service mesh using GitOps.Constructed CI pipelines to lint and validate Kubernetes resources using kubeval, kube-linter, and OPA increasing developer velocity and saving hours of operational troubleshooting.Built infrastructure and workflows to migrate off proprietary orchestration system to containers and Kubernetes reducing operator invention and increasing developer's releases per day.Updated BlackRock's SDLC for containers, supporting attestation, and enforcing best practices.Conducted interviews and recruitment sessions to grow the Atlanta iHub to over 1,000 employees.

New York, Ny, Us

Enhanced a proprietary, distributed, Java/C++ orchestration system that manages over 5,000 hosts, and 2,000 services per environment, spans across 4 datacenters.The orchestration system enables the operation teams to seamlessly perform failovers across data centers and hosts, scale-out services on demand, and monitor 150+ environments.Maintained a core Java service that provides permissions, configuration, and other data to trading applications.The Java service provides database resiliency by automatically detecting and recovering when there are database issues. The service is also highly scalable, handling over 40 million requests weekly.Handled the entire SDLC for owned applications using GitFlow, Jenkins/GitLab continuous integration pipelines, and Argo CD/in-house continuous delivery pipelines.Provided technical guidance to junior developers, fostering a positive team environment and promoting professional growth.Championed best practices in coding standards within the team, fostering a culture of consistency and excellence across all projects.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Helped organize, gave presentations, and facilitated panel discussions as a member of the board (2021)Recruiting board members and helping stand up the Young Professional Society as the chair of the board (2022/2023)

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Developed and expanded Java-based access management software with a global team.Updated and fixed back-end Perl scripts that populated permission databases for auditing.Built user interfaces in JavaScript/HTML to display reports and database information.

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, Us

Managed VBA worksheets to query and present market data. Reconstructed .NET services to maintain bond definitions, store PNL, and mark instruments.Deployed PowerShell scripts to obtain statistical information about applications.

New York, Ny, Us

Maintained and updated web services via embedded Perl, HTML, and JavaScript.Transformed and imported data between systems.Created and deployed scripts to automate tasks and analyze servers.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Aided in programming scripts to help migrate user information.Scanned and monitored network to identify any security breaches.Created presentations to compare and contrast possible security applications for internal use.

Provided care for two young boys ages 9 and 12.Planned and executed daily activities, which included going to the pool and amusement parks.Completed homework and attended sport activities.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Repaired daily printer problems (jams, low toner, not responding).Replaced mice, printers, and other CPU parts weekly.Troubleshot daily network problems.