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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Worked on the Cloud Engineering team building public and private cloud services for internal developers on AWS, GCP, Azure, and OpenNebula* Managed a fleet of 1,500+ hypervisors using config management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform* Built and maintained microservices in Go and Python for private cloud operations* Supported CI/CD tooling for internal developers with Jenkins, Artifactory, and GitHub Enterprise

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Worked on a team of freelancers for the government of British Columbia to build an application for the BC FireSmart program.- Gathered requirements and designed the application as a backend API written in Golang, data storage in AWS S3 and MariaDB, identity provided by AWS Cognito, fronted with ReactJS, and compute running in AWS ECS.- Built infrastructure in AWS following operational best practices and security compliance requirements using Terraform.- Secured the application and… Show more - Worked on a team of freelancers for the government of British Columbia to build an application for the BC FireSmart program.- Gathered requirements and designed the application as a backend API written in Golang, data storage in AWS S3 and MariaDB, identity provided by AWS Cognito, fronted with ReactJS, and compute running in AWS ECS.- Built infrastructure in AWS following operational best practices and security compliance requirements using Terraform.- Secured the application and infrastructure against common web based exploits such as the OWASP Top Ten.- Built a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to test and deploy the application. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Migrated customer data out of GCS buckets into S3 buckets, completing a multi-year effort to move all infrastructure from GCP into AWS.* Refactored the Terraform code provisioning AWS infrastructure to be modular and reusable between testing and production environments. Including codifying manual provisioning and configuration processes.* Designed and led a project to bring up infrastructure security standards in auditing, data protection, backups, threat detection, threat prevention,… Show more * Migrated customer data out of GCS buckets into S3 buckets, completing a multi-year effort to move all infrastructure from GCP into AWS.* Refactored the Terraform code provisioning AWS infrastructure to be modular and reusable between testing and production environments. Including codifying manual provisioning and configuration processes.* Designed and led a project to bring up infrastructure security standards in auditing, data protection, backups, threat detection, threat prevention, and user management with the long-term goal of achieving SOC2 and PCI DSS certification.* Replaced servers running end of life operating systems in production and implemented a patch plan to ensure they stay up to date using AWS SSM. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Instrumented internal Scala applications to provide detailed information for KPIs and SLAs for their respective services.* Improved several application health check workflows to reduce infrastructure load and monitoring request response times.* Built an automated application profiler which triggers when poor performance is detected in internal Scala applications.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

* Architected and implemented infrastructure and application deployments to be fault tolerant, resilient, and performant in both cloud and on-premises environments.* Used SLA based monitoring to drive decisions on allocating engineering resources towards improving application availability, performance, and maintainability.* Designed and implemented a monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Pagerduty. Including updating existing internal Scala and Node.js applications to be… Show more * Architected and implemented infrastructure and application deployments to be fault tolerant, resilient, and performant in both cloud and on-premises environments.* Used SLA based monitoring to drive decisions on allocating engineering resources towards improving application availability, performance, and maintainability.* Designed and implemented a monitoring stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Pagerduty. Including updating existing internal Scala and Node.js applications to be compatible with Prometheus monitoring.* Maintained 1,000+ servers using configuration management tools like Puppet and Ansible.* Participated in a pager rotation addressing live production issues. Followed incidents up with post-mortem meetings and action plans for preventing further issues. Show less

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Learned systems administration skills as an intern and demonstrated an end-to-end proof of concept of a new monitoring solution which would later go on to be put into production.