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About Me

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.

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Skills

languages

Bash
80%
Elixir
70%
Golang
70%
node
95%
php
85%
python
90%
terraform
95%

TOOLS

apt, microdnf, yum
80%
AWS
90%
Kubernetes
75%
Docker
90%
Jenkins
85%
Kafka
70%
SQL (All Flavors)
85%

PROFICIENCIES

Programming
75%%
Systems Administration
85%
Databases
65%
Frontend
35%

CONCEPTS

Systems Administration

Managed linux servers in a lil physical data center once, now using aws and to a lesser extent google cloud. Monitoring and observability are always in my headspace. On call experience both in formalized rotations and at startups.

Programming

Been programming since age 13. Written websites and APIs (in SOAP before REST). I value security, testability, and readability in my code. Knowing several languages makes learning new ones easier, so I adopt a "right tool, right job" philosophy.

Data Science

Architected data pipeline structures and programming tools for various input channels. Data shapes of those channels include: pixel tracking for both general marketing and attributed advertising clickstreams, mobile app location data, or on demand from historical sources.

Timeline

2023

Information Resolution

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

2022

Site Reliability Engineer, Voyager Crypto

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

2019

Senior Data Reliability Engineer, Fastly

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

2018

Senior DevOps Engineer, Hollywood

Deploy, administer, and support services and applications using Kuberenetes
Automate and administer Spinnaker and Jenkins CI tools
Provision infrastructure with terraform into AWS

2018

2016

DevOps, Architect Hallmark Labs, Santa Monica

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

2014

Senior Javascript Developer, Creative Channel Services

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

2009

Information Resolution

Business Owner managing freelance contracts.
Solved all kinds of fun, fullfilling problems.

2009-2014

Hit Web Design

Built new web portals using code generation for MVC php frameworks.
Customized CMS tools including Joomla and phpFox.

2009

2007

Php Programmer Netvolution.com, Downtown LA

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

2006

Linfield College, MicMinnville Oregon

B.A. Computer Science

Honors Thesis on The Nature of Information

2002-2006

2003

West Eugene Wetlands

Created and launched West Eugene Wetlands website. Developed PoC Microsoft Access SEEDS database for tracking Oregon native seeds.

2002-2004