William Drew Email & Phone Number

Orlando, FL, US

Confidential

Boston, MA, US

• Transitioned from employee to FT consultant for logistical reasons only while continuing to perform core responsibilities and on-call duties; added to trading team rotation
• Responsibilities continued to shift from Software Engineering to DevOps and became one of core principal infra team engineers
• Led Web Site/App technical efforts for SaaS with mgmt, CEO and consultants
• Led cloud migration/porting efforts in SME domains for core infra envs/systems (EC2-Classic to VPCs, VPC EC2 to VPC/AWS Services)
• Led efforts (incl. protoing) w/ Vault, KMS, AWS S2S VPN (BGP), Bastions, DBs, WebApp, REST APIs, MSA, etc; Migrating our I to IaC using TF & valuable input to roadmaps
• Collaborated w/ CFTs of research, trading, intel and upper mgmt on projects to ingest and curate 3rd party fin. data for trading signal gen, utilizing AWS services and deploying through TF and CFT; refined datasets.

Boston, MA, US

• Senior software engineer and effective DevOps engineer, among small teams of agile engineers and cross-functional science, research, intel & analytics, maritime, signals & trading teams as well as mgmt with several.
• Created demos and presentations that helped gain second round of investment; developed and improved various tools to monitor, maintain and enhance health of system ops across envs and Big Data clusters; On-call.
• Developed and improved various deployment infra including but not limited to using Chef, Rivet, Knife Nodefu, Autoscaling, Docker, ECS and Data Pipelines
• Developed, hardened and improved various apps, services & tools to enhance health of and monitor system ops across envs/systems to reduce alert fatigue & improve resiliency
• Lead/SME engineer for secure, HA & HP intl. data receiver services
• Responsible for deployments, enhancements (added new regions, protocols, auth and secured streams) and improved performance; created overseas env that seamlessly INT

• Lead engineer for full life cycle development, scalability and quality assurance of Blabble.com, a targeted social networking site with facebook-like interfaces and features
• Engineered nearly all components of the site using RoR & custom Ruby code
• Played an integral role in design, strategies and architecture & coding design concepts with CSS, X/HTML, HTML5, JavaScript (Prototype and jQuery), AJAX and Flash
• Fully responsible for admin of virtual servers using EngineYard's Cloud Platform
• Worked directly with owners of Blabble, Inc. to conceptualize and design major components; participated in brainstorming of marketing and business strategies

• Final redesign & rebuilding from the ground up of Lowrider.com, a very popular niche & social networking site for auto enthusiasts, from PHP to RoR, to meet web 2.0 standards
• Marketed, advertised and negotiated partnerships; used SEO, Google Ads & co-branding, I was able to maintain this endeavor for several years and graduate college debt free
• Ran, delegated and oversaw the daily business and technical operations of the company; performed shareholder meetings & restructured the company from dot com bubble burst
• Architectured colocation rack design, maintained, built and upgraded servers and workstations that ran the site
• Took ownership of site while still a student in high schoolrebuilt using Perl/CGI, upgraded and later on redesigned Lowrider.com with custom PHP

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Decision And Information Sciences

Associates Of Arts, Business Administration