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San Mateo, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

* Technical leader responsible for setting the direction for 10+ teams, delivering internal platform experiences for all (3,000+) engineers at Twilio (compute, CI/CD, artifacts, source code, networking, observability, progressive rollouts, …)* Rolled out “as code” tools to manage GitHub repositories at scale. Reducing time spent gathering compliance evidence from days to minutes. Eliminating manual tasks for the admin team completely.* Design and implement CI/CD workflows for Kubernetes environments. Eliminated manual compliance evidence gathering completely through preventative controls. Allowing developers to get to production in less than 30 minutes.* Design self service Kubernetes onboarding workflow using Backstage, eliminating manual processing by cluster admin team.* Guide senior engineers through “build vs buy vs adopt” decisions

San Francisco, California, Us

* Technical leader for a team of up to 13 engineers* Introduced Argo CD to enable teams to apply GitOps methodologies to deploy their software, including automated team and namespace onboarding for centralized RBAC across the Kubernetes API and Argo CD* Assisted other parts within the company through their Jenkins to Buildkite conversion* Developed roadmap for the CI/CD team, including requirements gathering, customer interviews, and solution validation* Automated Kubernetes cluster provisioning into AWS using Cluster API, including “zero pull request” cluster add-on deployment* Developed several Kubernetes controllers/operators* Acted as the bridge to merge company security practices with the philosophies of an existing DevOps organization* Introduced the concept of GraphQL federation to enable teams to build composable platform APIs* Contributed features and bug fixes to Argo Rollouts, cluster-api-provider-aws (CAPA), and Buildkite agent

San Francisco, California, Us

* Converted the build system from Jenkins to Buildkite and enabled paradigm shift within the company to enable software delivery teams to fully control their build pipelines* Built a centralized versioning system, tracking artifacts from build to production* Replaced a mix of on-premise artifact management systems with Artifactory cloud* Built an auto-scaling system for Buildkite agents for cost savings and near unlimited capacity for concurrent build jobs

San Jose, California, Us

Architect functional and non functional test automation solutions for McAfee's suite of SaaS security products (Email and Web security, email archiving) with a strong focus on the system's back end.Convert legacy software infrastructure to container technology using Docker and using Docker to speed up automated testing and improve test reliability.Languages: Perl, PHP, PythonSystems: CentOS 5.x and 6.x, VMwareTools: Cobbler, Puppet, Docker, Mercurial, Git, MCollective, Spacewalk

San Jose, California, Us

Automate functional and non functional tests for McAfee's suite of SaaS security products (Email and Web security, email archiving) with a strong focus on the system's back end.Languages: Perl, PHP, PythonSystems: CentOS 5.x and 6.x, VMwareTools: Cobbler, Puppet, MCollective, Spacewalk

San Jose, California, Us

Software QA Engineer for McAfee Email and Web Security Appliances.http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/email-gateway.aspx - Automation (using perl) - Performance- and Soak-Testing - VMware integration

San Jose, California, Us

- Working on Pre-Sales technical escalations- Working on and resolving cases escalated by Tier I- Assisting lower support Tiers- Documenting reproducible issues in the Knowledge Base- Identifying product issues and escalating to Tier III and Development- Assigned specialist for McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention and Network Access Control products, apart from supporting the usual products assigned to my team

San Jose, California, Us

- Taking calls from German and English speaking customers (switched to English-only after 6 months)- Documenting common tasks and issues in the Knowledge Base- Taking ownership of cases from "Hot customers" (large customers) which needed immediate attentionNotable technologies: McAfee endpoint software, Microsoft SQL Server 2000

- WindowsNT/2000/NT-Server Networking and Support- Setup and maintain Samba on HP-UX- Writing VBA Macros on MS Office- Developed applications MS Access with external data replication with corporate CRM/ERP- Developed of PHP/MySQL image archive software (phpImageArchive) to store, label and find reference photographs- Scripting NetInstall™ NetInstaller© for automated software deployment- Administer HP SAN system backups with HP TapeLibrary using HP OmniBack II