Stephen G. Email & Phone Number

Wappingers Falls, NY, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Chelsea, VIC, AU

• Helped update MySQL Databases in Azure and AWS, as well as migrate them to a new DBMS, mostly RDS.
• Migrated legacy infrastructure into Terraform in order to automate and track state and creation of resources going forward.
• Worked on Kubernetes clusters to deploy web application firewalls in front of ingress controllers, which required a rewrite ofsome of the HELM charts.

Chelsea, VIC, AU

• Took part in company wide efforts to track, audit, and reduce AWS cloud spending.
• Managed Kafka clusters as well as other non-containerized services with a combination of Terraform as well as Ansible playbooks.
• Deployed microservices to Kubernetes clusters running Dockerized microservices with the use of HELM charts.
• Implemented automation to allow for self-mitigation of ElasticSearch clusters, as well as fine-tuned performance of hot, warmand cold nodes.
• Monitored sever health with Datadog and participated in Pager Duty on-call schedule.
• Wrote various Terraform modules, along with BASH scripts and Python to bootstrap other areas of automation.

New York, NY, US

• Worked on Infrastructure automation utilizing Terraform along with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines automated deployment and unit tests.
• Assisted in migrating applications from physical infrastructure into AWS cloud offerings.
• Helped monitor applications via Datadog and was part of a Pager Duty on-call rotation.
• Managed Kubernetes secrets and some deployments in clusters setup both in the cloud and physical locations (pre-EKS days.)
• Created and maintained Ansible playbooks for configuration management and non-containerized services.

New York, New York, US

• Helped manage data warehouses through administration of Kafka and Hadoop clusters.
• Mentored other team members in new and emerging technologies such as Terraform and Ansible
• Participated in Pager Duty on-call rotation and incident response.
• Helped to build microservices infrastructure for Mesos/Marathon and assisted data scientists to get ETL workflows running properly.
• Maintained and created Puppet manifests for configuration management, as well as kickstart profiles for helping with provisioning ofphysical physical infrastructure.
• Participated in an AWS POC to assess cost and viability of cloud options and capabilities.

New York, NY, US

• Helped maintain Chef cookbooks for deploying services to AWS.
• Assisted with some internal office networking for physical appliances where need be.
• Participated in incident triage and response.

• Helped maintain production environment in AWS accounts the company had, mostly via Puppet but we tried a few options.
• Bootstrapped gaps in configuration management with BASH and Python.
• Performed some physical server office duties on occasion in the small server room that was on-site.

New York, New York, US

• Worked with developers to build and maintain a very large and complex Puppetinfrastructure across thousands of physical machines.
• Handled a lot of batch access requests that were normally a portion of the complex configuration management process.
• Worked HEAVILY with the datacenter team to routinely work on physical hardware from the systems end.
• Bootstrapped gaps in configuration management with a combination of BASH and Python scripts running in Jenkins CI/CD
• Monitored servers with Nagios and Cacti, and participated in on-call rotation.

New York, NY, US

• Monitored infrastructure with a combination of Nagios, Cacti, and Hyperic, and triaged incident response to issues.
• Took on junior administrator tasks such as creation of basic automation via BASH scripting
• Maintained documentation to various company systems and runbooks.
• Assisted the systems team with basic work on Xen / VMWARE machines

Southampton, Hampshire, GB

• Wrote basic BASH scripts to expedite daily workflow and solve common issues.
• Helping test and configure patches for new game server software on FreeBSD systems.
• Performed basic select operations on MySQL databases related to customer issues.
• Monitored servers via Nagios and responded to incidents proactively.

• Troubleshooting and repairing end-user machines, mostly Windows desktop or servers.
• Helping local business clients with networking and physical hardware issues.
• Removing viruses and other malware
• Motherboard and simple board repairs with soldering.
• Occasionally performing Ubuntu Linux installations and troubleshooting for some customers.

• Managed a small team consisting of two artists and two web/game developers.
• Helped manage an in-house development server used for backing up our code via SVN(Subversion) and doing functional testing.
• Handled general business tasks related to filing for NYS as well as bookkeeping.
• Took calls from business clients related to development needs and triaged work to appropriate team members.

B.A., Philosophy

A.A., Liberal Arts And Humanities