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Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Migrated Kubernetes infrastructure from Tectonic to AWS EKS\- Planned and implemented a disaster recovery procedure- Implemented a chatbot to streamline software- deploys and eliminate bottlenecks- Created dashboards to provide insight on business processes to multiple teamsTechnologies: Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, EKS, Route53,ECR), Node.js, ElasticSearch.

Cary, NC

- Implemented metrics monitoring across 200 servers- Implemented log aggregation across multiple products and services- Implemented Ansible automation for server provisioning- Mined server logs for customer-impacting bugs- Mentored junior team members in software developmentAnsible, Docker Swarm, Go, Grafana, ElasticSearch / ELK, InfluxDB

Morrisville, NC

- AWS cost management: wrote a tool to clean up unused EBS volumes, saves $1,000+/mo (AWS Lambda)- AWS cost management: performed analysis of cost savings opportunities, identifying unused resources- Exposed the company's infrastructure health via a status dashboard (Node.js, HTML+CSS)- Managed automation for hundreds of AWS resources across multiple.

Raleigh, NC

- Visualized OpenShift/Kubernetes cloud infrastructure with D3 and React- Application robustly handled downtime of the API endpoints it queriedTechnologies: Node.js, React, TypeScript, OpenShift, Kubernetes, D3

Chapel Hill, NC

- Order of magnitude improvement in reliability and development speed of product installers vs old system - Cross-platform installers all built from a single codebase and build step - Used off-the-shelf installer tools and Node.js scripts to maximize features and minimize custom code- Developed, bundled, and deployed a Blender plugin at scale and received.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

- Automated stand-up and configuration of small fleet of application servers (multiple apps & code environments)- Dramatic improvement of server reliability, reduction of error alerts- Server stand-up time reduced from 1+ days to mere minutesTechnologies: Chef, Ubuntu Server, Xen, Tomcat, Apache, Passenger, Python/Fabric

Durham, NC

- Developed on a 300 kLOC web application requiring high reliability and performance over complex data and features- Front-end and back-end web development- Executed rolling code deployments- Used AWS/EC2 for software development and testing- Provided level 2 customer support, including on-call monitoring of system alertTechnologies: PHP, JavaScript.

Morrisville, NC

- Created tool to stress-test Ultimus' software, saving developers and Quality Assurance each several hours a week- Worked independently (in office and remotely) to design and develop a small WinForms application. The application needed to integrate with three different APIs to the same data, requiring careful consideration to avoid code duplication..

Morrisville, NC

- Developed a store locator that was up to 50 times faster than its unusably-slow predecessor- Overcame vague program requirements and wrote a flexible, powerful program that periodically posted event announcements on Twitter

Cary, NC

- Architected and implemented a quality assurance strategy from scratch- Designed a test plan which handled dozens of variations of the product across spanning 6 operating systems- Discovered and resolved dozens of showstopper bugs, which drastically improved product quality and customer satisfaction- Recommended product improvements that would save time &.

Systems Administrator (part-time)

- Reduced server count by 75% through service consolidation and OS virtualization- Installed, configured, and maintained web servers and networking equipment- Researched and implemented technologies to improve network operation and manageability: - OpenVPN - Versioned server backups - File serversTechnologies: VMWare Server, Linux, OpenVPN

Carrboro, NC

- Migrated 200+ client businesses (2000+ accounts ) to a new email provider- Migrated 200+ customer websites from Urchin to Google Analytics- Created reporting tools that revealed $1000s in billing oversights and helped eliminate hundreds of software bugs (PHP)- Regular tasks included managing and monitoring 200+ production and 250+ development websites.