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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Team lead for StackStorm automation platform which performs over 2800 manhours worth of tasks every monthAutomated Gcloud Disk and Snapshot cleanup saving over an estimated $250,000 a year in cloud costsImplemented automated DDoS remediation that detects attacks and enables Cloudflare based security features for our clients, preventing website.

San Jose, CA, US

Managed CI/CD Pipeline (GoCD) for Webex Share, Room Phone and Desk HubAdded ELK stack for Metrics, Log Aggregation and Alerting from pipeline and MicroservicesManaged and modernized Ansible playbooks which allowed for uniform configuration and updates for our 20 build machines across Raleigh and ChinaLed move from Rancher 1.0 to OpenShift (Redhat Managed.

San Jose, CA, US

Implemented CI/CD Pipeline with BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker to quickly build, test and deploy code changes for Cisco Hosted Collaboration SolutionUsed Elasticsearch to collect log and metric information from applications and servers. Then used ElastAlert as an alerting solution to send anomalous events to PagerDuty.

San Jose, CA, US

Developed bot uisng REST APIs to update JIRA pages upon completion of Jenkins tasks.Worked with team to create internal site which tracks CI timeline from commit to deployment using AWS backed (Lambda, S3, ElasticsearchService, API Gateway).

San Jose, CA, US

Developed tools for automating Kibana setup and log migration into Docker containers.Collaborated with group to create site that tracks trends in code covergage using Nginx and Postgress containers.

Greensboro, NC, US

Investigating the connection between published text on the internet and author identification. Using machine learning (K-clustering) to explore trends in large, high-dimensional datasets.

Greensboro, NC, US

Used machine learning and natural language processing to explore what statements in an online chat room correlate to what emotions that user is attempting to present. This information will be used to train automated computer mediated chat rooms to aid in online classes.

Herndon, Virginia, US

Researched whether or not Internet of Things (IoT) network packets could be fingerprinted from encrypted network traffic using Pacumen, an open-source, Python based application fingerprinting tool.

Pasadena, CA, US

Radar Science Intern. Used MatLab to manage algorithm for classifying weather information. Used training and validation data sets to determine whether or not sections of real world radar data contained rainy or non-rainy sky.

Worked with the IT department to provide tech support for the division and develop standard work procedures for file backup management. Cross trained with division 5 DDC office.Used 2D CAD software, ArcGIS, and Microsoft Excel to help plan and analyze future projects.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science