Led a team from being underwater with a 700+ Jira ticket backlog to within 12 months having a backlog of 100 tickets and able to innovate and reduce technical debt.Designed, evangelized, and implemented the initial tool for centralizing on an Ops cli tool for automation. Bringing software engineer skills and testing to the Ops world to replace 100’s of small scripts that had no testing and no reusability.Migrated from Redis 3 to Redis 6 across 50+ Redis clusters.

Designed and implemented the move from EC2 instances for all services to a container orchestrated system. This migration allowed us to better utilized EC2 resources reducing our EC2 spend by 50% with a cost savings of over $500,000 a year.Reviewed and redesigned the terraform structure to use a modular approach that could be versioned and automated.Assessed the networking in AWS, and implemented changes to restructure the network to move instances into private subnets.Migrated to a three AWS account layout to give developers more access and to improve security for Protected Health Information.Brought the remaining AWS infrastructure and Github repositories under control of terraform.Documented best practices for developers around Docker and Kubernetes. Gave introductory training to help transition them.

Creation of a service to manage 100’s of Kubernetes clusters and create new clusters on demand.Implemented continued deployment on Kubernetes with Gitlab and Helm to version and test artifacts, with promotion on tagging.Created a CLI to allow for helm charts to be installed in a single command in parallel along with support for automatic updates.Led infrastructure level monitoring and metrics to ensure alerting and debugging capabilities on system faults.

Created and implemented a strategy to move to Kubernetes from static EC2 infrastructure.Created a robust, resilient and distributed scheduler with locks, tasks, and alerts.Major overhaul from static logging to logging backed by ElasticSearch ELK stack.Created extensive monitoring and failure detection suite for early warning of system failures using Sensu.Led training sessions on technologies such as Kubenretes, Kibana, Grafana, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB.

Used Puppet to setup developer workstations for onboarding. Reducing onboarding from 2 weeks to 4 hours.Reduced infrastructure setup time from 6 days to 25 minutes using Puppet and Fabric.Used Spring, Apache Camel, and OracleAQ to implement a multithreaded, redundant biometric system.Decompiled a library with a GUI to use it as a command-line tool.

Made enhancements to a legacy Swing application used by the FBI gun check NICS program.

Created a biometric prototype system using Oracle Aqualogic Enterprise Service Bus and Business Process Modeler(BPM) using J2EE, SOAP, and XSLT along with JNI for low-level communication and implemented EFTS/EBTS FBI mappings to NIEM XML.

Designed Java based web services to interact with Flash clients for product enhancements.