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Durham, Nc, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Tasked with building out reusable infrastructure for the broader organization, related to projects such as FluxCD, OpenShift, and Tekton.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Tasked with improving Blockchain Document Store, which was blocking progress of other products in the Blockchain Solutions organization (TradeLens, IBM Food Trust).- Educated product development on Kubernetes, CI/CD, testing, and managing releases.- Set up CI/CD pipeline for product development team.- Converted upgrades from a manual, error prone process to an automated process so that the support team could run them instead. Upgrades went from 24+ hours to less than an hour. My team was responsible for upgrading dozens of environments that had not been upgraded in over 18 months without causing downtime.- Established support process, including PagerDuty setup & automation, as well as baseline metrics gathering and alerts.- Transitioned the team to internally public postmortems and prioritizing work items based on the most common root causes of outages.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Designed and led implementation of in-house, container-native, Kubernetes-based CI/CD system to provide a specialized alternative Jenkins/Travis CI.- Compose tool chain of open source and internal packages for developers to leverage for local development and software delivery.- Build, host and maintain internal multi-tenant services for things like access management, deployment reporting, vulnerability management- Established patterns for development teams to take and expand around configuration management, monitoring, application packaging, and release management.Direct a small team of engineers that provides common:- CI/CD infrastructure, processes, automation tooling- documentation on best practices, internal patterns, checklists, etc- release management processes- anything related to writing, delivering, and maintaining services on Kubernetesfor all of the products under the IBM Blockchain Solutions umbrella. Responsibilities include researching open source tools that meet the needs of internal stakeholders, configuring those open source tools, writing replacements for open source tools that do not meet requirements, educating developers on tools, practices, and processes, and driving platform-level architecture for Kubernetes services.Team often swaps hats between fire fighting immediate operational issues on Kubernetes clusters and building components to establish a technical foundation for the future.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Mixed developer and operations role working with a Node microservice architecture for Presence Insights, an indoor tracking system.- Core contributor (1 of 5) during scrap-and-rewrite phrase, moving from single tenant on premise solution to a multitenant Node microservice architecture.- Developed framework for running tests in deployed environment against live services.- Automated builds/publishes and regression checks for 60~ Node projects through Travis and Jenkins. - Created automated versioning story using Travis for 60~ node modules to be hosted on internal private npm.- Responsible for universal runtime components such as logging.- Educated team on SCM technologies such as git and GitHub Enterprise.- Pushed on imitating open source methodologies such as commit conventions and contributor documentation.- Developed and defined developer workflow, including documenting, improving, and automating release and hotfix release routines.- Implemented automation for translation hand-off between global translation team and development team using GitHub APIs.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Developed prototype applications for the IBM Bluemix PaaS and explored relevant emerging technology. - Developed web application that assisted developers in transitioning existing Bluemix projects into Docker based projects.- Developed example an example service for IBM Bluemix. - Maintained application samples for IBM jStart. - Wrote articles detailing IBM Bluemix solutions and projects.

Boone, Nc, Us

Software developer under Dr. Barry Kurtz, Dr. Tashakkori, and Dr. Fenwick on NSF-funded WAGS (Web Automated Grading System) project, developed user interfaces in GWT (Google Web Toolkit), and server side development with PHP/SQL. Developed new module for WAGS called Code Magnets in collaboration with 2 other students. Created guest page that houses examples for introducing new users to WAGS (http://cs.appstate.edu/wags/guest.html).