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Boulder, Co, Us

Boulder, Co, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

>> Building a SaaS platform for monitoring and managing NGINX dataplanes.> Designed and implemented platform architecture for SaaS product running in AWS.> Built out microservices and APIs in Go with capability to monitor customer NGINX datapaths.> Created frameworks for CICD using infrastructure as code and helm Kubernetes deployments.> Contributed to testing frameworks and python libraries for interacting with product APIs.> Responsible for integrations with other F5 products and services.> Mentored new-hires and junior developers.

Seattle, Washington, Us

>> DevOps Tech Lead for the NGINX Controller product team.> Automated workflows for building and grooming AMI and VM template images used for testing products on all supported platforms.> Built testing capabilities for AWS cloud-integration feature sets in testing framework used across product pipelines and teams.> Enabled individual components to be swapped out for in-development versions for faster and easier testing and iteration of feature development within existing deployment tools.> Mentored interns and new-hires with successful outcomes.> Developed linting and formatting tool for use on several developer tool repositories to provide easier and more universal standards checking across these projects.> Introduced long-lived environments with automated configuration to be used as sales demo environments for customers.

Seattle, Washington, Us

>> DevOps Engineer providing deployment tools for containerized load balancer / application delivery controller service platform being developed for use in AWS, vSphere, and other clouds.> Designed and developed systems and automation for "warm cluster" ephemeral environments that could be acquired by developers and CI/CD pipelines for testing, demos, and troubleshooting reliably and quickly.> Introduced and iterated on plugins for a deployment framework to create a variety of highly-configurable systems, services, and product installations in multiple cloud environments.> Introduced and maintained many CI/CD pipelines for a variety of projects and tools, and created local developer workflows that enabled fast iterative development.> Updated installation scripts and contributed heavily to migration of primary product to use Kubernetes as an orchestration platform.> Evangelized for quality standards, Agile practices, and thorough testing stages throughout the NGINX business unit, with a strong lead-by-example attitude.> Working with terraform, ansible, python, golang, bash, kubernetes, docker, and cloud tools.

Austin, Texas, Us

> Designed and implemented Continuous Integration pipelines for multiple components, providing improved testing, versioning, and demonstrability of products and features.> Developed and maintained Kubernetes cluster deployment scripts to install product dependencies and deploy microservices based on admin-defined settings.> Contributed in designing and documenting architecture for central features of a GPU-capable cloud-compute and cloud-storage service.> Integrated Valgrind profiling and leak checking into blackbox tests and CI frameworks for multiple projects using Python testing frameworks and Jenkins declarative pipelines.> Researched and demonstrated feasibility of GPU sharing within Kubernetes cluster containers.> Created initial automation for Continuous Deployment of cloud service to on-premises machines, and later migrated to AWS EC2 for increased scale-out using terraform (infrastructure as code). > Identified and resolved numerous bugs and stability issues.> Developed crucial microservice functionality in C++ for logging and querying transactions to a distributed ledger service.> Wrote unit and integration tests for microservice APIs utilized over gRPC.

Verona, Wi, Us

> Directly managed several employees in the Server Systems division as a Team Lead.> Mitigated and reduced numerous operational downtimes and coordinated staff through a variety of crisis scenarios.> Led and directed the internal training team: responsible for new-hire education, training and documenting of new features, processes, and technical information.> Produced customer-facing documentation on database administrator troubleshooting, Epic environment management tools, and proper testing of HA solutions including PowerHA, ServiceGuard, and VMware vSphere.

Verona, Wi, Us

> Implemented Epic EHR database and database infrastructure for healthcare organizations. Direct customers included small ambulatory-only clinics and large academic medical institutions.> Managed projects for sites performing major upgrades to system components, migrating server and/or storage hardware and OS platforms. Directly contributed to their successful outcomes.> Provided consultation and expertise to healthcare IT staff on topics of Caché database administration, database monitoring, enterprise storage configuration, business continuity planning and testing, Unix server deployment, patching, and backups.> Supported Caché databases and monitoring tools running on Linux, HP-UX, and AIX platforms. > Developed scripts in ksh and bash for performing workflows.> Investigated, troubleshooted, and documented customer-reported issues. Worked with developers to design, prioritize, and implement solutions to these issues for all affected organizations.

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Employed in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology as a Student Undergrad Research Fellow for the summer of 2013.Developed a system for performing Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy measurements for photovoltaics. Wrote LabView programs and assembled instruments to create a DLTS system for small-scale measurements useful for characterizing thin-film solar cells.Worked with vacuum systems, cryogen, photovoltaics, digitizers, waveform generators, and other devices.Assembled a presentation on my project, which was delivered to various colleagues and NIST researchers.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Worked on the Orion Project with the Avionics Team as a College Student Tech. Sr. Summer Intern.Organized, assembled, and delivered presentations and reports for NASA and Orion teams.Prepared failure management analysis, created lab test procedures, aided the team in a client review, and updated the working project report throughout the summer.