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Toronto, ON, CA

San Francisco, CA, US

Senior contributor within DevOps team responsible for design, maintenance, and ongoing operational reliability of platform hosted in a mixed AWS and GCP environment.* Lead virtualization and modernization efforts across the platform including migrations of Ruby on Rails applications to GKE.* Helped to maintain core databases and BI systems.* Extended and.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Senior member of SRE team responsible for secure and continuous operations of industry leading automated investment platform during extreme high growth period.* Maintained and expanded platform related Terraform tooling to maintain resources deployed to Nomad.* Built fully fault tolerant HA Windows Server environment on Azure Cloud with secure login backed.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Acted in capacity of lead Site Reliability Engineer building the SRE team, mentoring the members of the team, advocating for SRE practices across the org, planning SRE related projects, and architecting new platform related initiatives.* Hired and mentored the four members of the SRE and DevSecOps teams.* Created monitoring and alerting processes for.

Carmel, Indiana, US

Leader and architect of DevOps, SRE, and IT initiatives within rapidly growing late stage startup.* Built teams of DevOps and SRE engineers to support the rapidly expanding operations of a late stage startup starting with a team of three engineers and growing to a team of over thirty engineers across three teams.* Managed, mentored, and lead engineers from.

Toronto, ON, CA

Senior member of an operational team responsible for the performance, uptime, and efficiency of all backend related initiatives and systems. * Trained and mentored junior staff instilling techniques and operating procedures to ensure success in the performance of technical operational duties.* Acted as an system and network architect providing guidance.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Integral member of a small, agile, operations team designing systems, implementing cutting edge tools, automating, monitoring, and ensuring the security of highly complex, PCI DSS Level 1 compliant, environments both in the AWS cloud and elsewhere.* Designed and deployed highly scalable, redundant, environments in the AWS cloud using open source projects.

Provided enterprise infrastructure consulting, digital asset management technologies, software development, and team/employee vetting.* Designed, deployed, and documented enterprise SANs.* Deployed server infrastructures to manage medium to large mixed environments using Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux* Managed implementation of automated systems for digital.

Broomfield, Colorado, US

Key contributor to team-based development of leading-edge software solutions that install, maintain, monitor, and repair 30,000+ servers comprising the global CDN network, part of the largest internet network in the world. * Expanded functionality of a CentOS-based network management operations board used by the CDN network operations center, written in.

Supported development of I.T. infrastructure and software products for a fast-growing digital production and distribution company. Served key clients including AOL, Viacom, NASCAR, B4M, MediaSilo, Telestream, KPIX/College Sports (CBS Affiliates), Reuters, J Walker Thompson, and BBC US. * Built Ruby on Rails and CakePHP based web portals for use by clients.

Denver, CO, US

Acted as senior systems architect establishing a robust, standardized I.T. infrastructure.* Motivated a software development team of 5 along with 2 IT and various contractors. * Evaluated and forecasted company requirements, designed staffing, process, and technology solutions to meet business needs during rapid growth phase. Presented business cases to.

Evaluated requirements, developed and presented business cases, and managed I.T. project budgets.* Designed and implemented network of virtualized servers using VMWare ESX and VMWare Infrastructure.* Directed systems engineering, implementation, and administration, website development, and technical support services for manufacturer with sites in the U.S..

Englewood, CO, US

Provided 24/7 support to mission critical core middleware platform.* Served in 24/7 on-call rotation averaging around 200 pages per day.* Maintained and expanded monitoring for EAI WebMethods middleware layer that acted as the core communication layer between all systems in Fortune 500 corporation.* Lead root cause analysis and remediation.

Systems architect for ultra high traffic web cluster.* Designed and deployed fully automated web hosting environment on bare metal for the purpose of hosting gaming related community sites such as forums and game databases.* Architected and deployed monitoring and alerting for web cluster.* Built out fault tolerant, open source, database for web cluster.*.