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Newport, Vt, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Lead tiger-team on emergency project to migrate 30 microservices from Mesos to Kubernetes • Consolidate legacy pipelines from numerous providers (codebuild, buildkite, jenkins) to Codefresh • Conduct blameless post-mortems and ensure deliverables are followed-through reducing risk of future failures • Provide guidance as SME to teams on architectural best practices, tool evaluation and adoption, and cost-efficacy • Plan and run companies first Gameday: construct and guide devs through chaos-monkey-inspired simulated emergencies • Deprecate several internal tools w/ little business value in favor of robust open-source alternatives to reduce maintenance costs • Standardize Helm Charts for 20 applications using Library Chart functionality, reducing lead time for new microservices • Refactored legacy IAC to be more extensible and clear, expanded to 5 new regions in production ahead of schedule • Coach junior engineers and offshore teams: creating video tutorials, conducting group and 1-on-1 training sessions • Regularly tackle hands-on interrupt work debugging networking, cloud, and application issues • Backport extensive Azure and AWS infrastructure into terraform and terragrunt

New York, Ny, Us

• Build, manage & upgrade Kubernetes clusters according to industry best practices• Clearly and effectively communicate & collaborate with developers and clients around the world• Design extensive Gitlab & Argo pipelines for automated application building, testing, deployment, and promotion • Modularize terraform resources, import legacy resources into TF simplifying management• Migrated legacy Bamboo+Terraform based Kubernetes CICD system to Gitlab• Lead Engineer for two clients, solicited regular feedback and continually iterated according to client needs• Automated data backup, validation, and restore operations for critical data• Contribute to open-source projects such as Helm-Operator and Flux• Dockerize and migrate applications to Kubernetes• Write extensible and elegant Helm Charts with versioned chart fragments • Architect, Manage and Monitor extensive AWS, Nutanix infrastructure• Participate in on-call OpsGenie rotation for after-hours support of critical infrastructure• Redesigned client application to use event-based architecture allow massive scale-out across several countries

Austin, Tx, Us

• Manage extensive critical AWS infrastructure across regions and accounts; EC2, ECR, S3, VPCs, Route53, RDS, and IAM • Dockerized and migrated many services to Kubernetes, substantially reducing AWS costs and increasing scalability• Automated deployment of clusters via Terraform, Ansible, and Packer for Kafka, Nifi, Vault, Solr, and other clusters• Migrated legacy CI/CD pipeline to a heavily customized Jenkins system with DIND-capable Kubernetes Agents• Imported large variety of AWS resources into terraform, simplifying management• Developed metrics and alerting platform using Prometheus and Grafana• Network and System debugging

New York, Ny, Us

• Wrote curriculum and taught courses for college credit on data structures, software architecture, algorithms, and advanced mathematical topics• Graded and provided thoughtful, constructive feedback for 1000’s of software projects, whiteboarding challenges, projects, and free response math problems• Team Lead in charge of coordinating instruction and materials for 6 teachers

Göttingen, Niedersachsen, De

• Lead engineer for neuron sorting on live test subjects, designed entire data flow from operating room to final data visualization.• Solicited feedback from research team for continual UX and data processing improvements• Automated data munging saving researchers 8 hours / week• Achieved 97% confidence level by fine-tuning neural networks

College Station, Tx, Us

• Led summer course on fourier analysis and wavelet decomposition for handwriting, image and audio signal analysis• Conducted MATLAB lectures for over 1000 students across different disciplines

Alm, Psychology

Med, Mathematics

Ba, International Studies

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