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Roanoke, TX, US

New York, New York, US

Streamlined EKS scaling with Karpenter reconfiguration and upgrades, making the clusters far more efficient and agile.Drove conversations and ideas to reduce Kubernetes administration burden and simplify cluster upgrades that saves days of engineering hours per upgrade.

Seattle, Washington, US

Designed dynamically generated Gitlab pipelines to support our mono repos through the use of existing tooling as well as custom tooling. This design also sped up CI/CD pipelines by 6x, and the dynamically generated pipelines determine what child pipelines and jobs to run.Built tooling to automate workflows and deployments, for example pausing and resuming.

Columbia, MD, US

* Investigated performance and stability issues in distributed systems, and resolved them.

Dallas, TX, US

Designed a new platform on top of EKS despite being the only person in this role and area of responsibility, and regularly given new responsibilities to maintain services outside our team.Successfully migrated services from a custom Kubernetes cluster into a new account and onto this new platform. This involved coordinating with multiple infrastructure and.

Coppell, Texas, US

Redesigned and replaced existing custom core deployment tools developed by the team when they had minimal manpower. The new tool was reliable, shifted requirement checks to the start rather than dispersed across the run, provided robust feedback to guide users, cleaned up all known bugs in the previous deployment tool, and provided new features to fill.

Lewisville, Texas, US

To move towards disaster recovery, gradually implemented infrastructure as code for (de)provisioning and (re)configuring all cloud resources--VMs, kubernetes clusters, networks, etc.Developed custom tooling to accomplish the above mentioned projects, which involved much interaction with cloud APIs and some use of Terraform--similar to today’s Terraform.

Lewisville, Texas, US

To facilitate team & service agility, developed tooling with NodeJS ES6 that configured & deployed Kubernetes resources including: a custom ingress controller with an optional, custom WAF to block access to any host or URI desired including company microservices, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, Bamboo), and more.To bring automation into.

Lewisville, Texas, US

Served as backend web developer utilizing Node.JS to produce RESTful APIs and more...Designed and maintained a custom, encrypted desktop developer environment VM. This ensured each team member had the same tools available to them, and their microservices were locally run in a manner that mimicked production. This removed, “it works on my machine”.

US

Developed DevOps automation programs for deployment and maintenance of critical systems.Assist the team in implementing newer technology and coding practices in DevOps Automation starting with detailed discussions with architects, team leaders, and teammates on current issues, design & implementation goals, and desired features list; then correlating the.

Resolved customer system issues with either their workstations or servers or network.Taught customers important skills on their systems.

Cut costs by 50% in collocation & power by restructuring company resources, migrating hardware to virtual servers & repurposing hardware, and negotiating new contracts.Developed tech for a multi-million dollar video email entity, including HA of legacy software, effective layered security, media transcoding & array of consumer device compatibility.Deployed.

Built enterprise-level software with many of the above listed skills in each project, including:* HIPAA compliant, Medical Practice Management Solution for a multi-million dollar entity; built using C#, JavaScript, etc. client technologies and Unix server technologies.* Custom built, SEO optimized e-commerce site which maintained page one search results in.

Dallas, Texas, US

Remote technician for clients across the nation.Maintained a professional conduct and tone with difficult customers.Held tight to company policies and procedures.Volunteered for tasks outside what was expected.

Built utility applications for company and clientele to automate tasks, remove corrupt emails, correct faulted web browser installations, etc.Constructed, administrated & repaired company servers.Efficiently repaired clientele computer software and hardware.Designed the company’s website with potential buyers and ease of use in mind.Managed company.