I thrive when automating solutions for managing and tracking voluminous user generated information.
I derive satisfaction from making my coworker's lives easier through tooling.
Planning and testing processes for building reliable infrastructure is part of a rewarding routine for me.
I react rapidly with steady hands to a production outage.
I have more than 15 years of post college professional experience programming: APIs for web and devices, CMS tools, data scraping scripts and cleaning tasks, click tracking architectures... you name it. First time in a shell on a Linux box was circa '96 and never stopped.
My objective is to build and support world class software.
This is me 🎵
Delivered migration between terragrunt and terraform
Stood up ELK stack in Infrastructure as Code
Performed system observability review, implemented recommendations in Datadog
Jumped in to duplicate a pipeline and rapidly deliver a new service build and deploy in Harness
2023
Created and administered kubrnetes and database clusters in AWS with terraform via well defined conventions.
Orchestrated monitoring for and responded to incidents impacting system reliability.
Created and deployed Atlassian status page for incident tracking
2022
On Call SRE responding to PagerDuty incidents by executing established runbooks as well as troubleshooting novel failures. Responsible for triggering incident communication avenues, participating in review meetings, and building monitoring and runbook responses from learnings.
Rapidly terraformed infra for immediately monetized partner vendor integration, and unblocked technical problems across teams
Ensure compliance with security standards including SOC2, including performing annual Disaster Recovery testing and validation in production
Use chef in a solo and chef server configurations for EC2 provisioning, wrote custom cookbooks
2019-2021
Deploy, administer, and support services and applications using Kuberenetes
Automate and administer Spinnaker and Jenkins CI tools
Provision infrastructure with terraform into AWS
2018
Stand up resources with Cloudformation and puppet, build Docker base images, create testable deployment pipelines
Coded multiple platform microservices in Elixir (such as the member store and the authentication microservice)
Planned and implemented Kafka messaging architecture and schemata
Rapidly deployed a prototype node API and testbed which was promoted for monetization
Add features and fix bugs in legacy SVOD system hmnow.com
2016-2018
Lead developer on team creating data collection tool.
Managed mLab mongoDB deployed on heroku.
Wrote features and implement bug fixes in node backend API.
Wrote, tested, and ran member record migration with DB into LDAP + MySQL for Cyberscholar.
2014-2016
Business Owner managing freelance contracts.
Solved all kinds of fun, fullfilling problems.
2009-2014
Built new web portals using code generation for MVC php frameworks.
Customized CMS tools including Joomla and phpFox.
2009
Refactored components of the shared backend php library.
Implemented web 2.0 front end designs.
Deploy, integrate, and support eccomerce and content management systems.
Upgrade code from php4 to php5.
2007-2009
B.A. Computer Science
Honors Thesis on The Nature of Information
2002-2006
Created and launched West Eugene Wetlands website. Developed PoC Microsoft Access SEEDS database for tracking Oregon native seeds.
2002-2004