Senior Devops Engineer

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Cloud Engineer

Devops/Cloud Engineer using Devops principles and the power of code to automate as many things as they will let me.

Experience

Galileo Insights

Senior Devops Engineer • Nov 2022 - Present

Providing client's Data Science team with support and infrastructure

  • Creating and troubleshooting Gitlab pipelines for Machine Learning and AI projects
  • Designing Google Cloud solutions around Dataproc, Electron, and Composer to meet team's needs
  • Troubleshooting python issues along Dataproc, Electron, Composer

Vroom

Senior Devsecops Engineer • Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Helping start up a Product Security team

  • Writing scripts/scans to verify compliance to various standards
  • Architecting & rolling out AWS Firewall for all traffic
  • Remediation/Verification of pentest results

Senior Devops Engineer • Sep 2020 — Oct 2021

Using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Kubernetes to bring Gitlab to another chaotic AWS account

  • Buildout of Gitlab system, including EKS clusters
  • Implemented Terragrunt across legacy Terraform codebase
  • Buildout of Amazon's MWAA Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow

Groundspeed Analytics

Senior Cloud Engineer • Nov 2018 — Sep 2020

Using Python and Terraform to bring order to a Startup's chaotic AWS account

  • First Devops Engineer at 50-100 user startup
  • Buildout of Terraformed ECS Services
  • Preparation for and Completion of SOC2 Certification
  • Wrote SNS, SQS, Lambda Terraform modules to abstract them for simple use by Engineers
  • Maintenance of entire AWS account using lots of Boto3

LLamaSoft

Senior Cloud Engineer • Nov 2016 — Nov 2018

Using Chef, Jenkins, AWS, Packer, and Terraform to build a large infrastructure pipeline. Using custom Chef resources to deploy services, with Jenkins pipelines orchestrating the show.

  • First ever Devops Engineer in the organization, which facilitated lots of valuable experience
  • Introduced Chef to the organization, and built all of the initial cookbooks for services
  • Created many small tools for the team with both Powershell (Windows Deskside) and Ruby (Anything Else)
  • Creating tooling for cross-platform use via Python and Ruby
  • Identify most effective improvements and schedule the work into sprints
  • Work with individual dev teams to standardize deployments
  • Buildout of Elasticsearch Cluster
  • Code tracking and collaboration via Github ♥

Ford Motor Company

Server Automation Engineer • July 2015 — Nov 2016

Tasked with writing scripts in Ruby and the Chef Domain Specific Language to automate various processes

  • First engineer hired to do only Devops, participated in lots of strategy and evangelization meetings.
  • Utilizing Chef to Automate Server Configurations
  • Developing Vagrantfiles to ease local development for the organization
  • Code tracking and collaboration via Github ♥

Level One Bank

Sr Network Engineer (System Administrator) • Sep 2013 — July 2015

Oversaw all IT functions, delegating tasks to teammates as well as myself.

  • Design and Support IT Infrastructure for 200 User Environment with 10 Branch Locations
  • Automated imaging process for servers as well as workstations
  • Introduced infrastructure logging and monitoring
  • Wrote an app to track phishing test results using PHP and Mysql
  • Built ticketing frontend using PHP
  • Architected and deployed VPN, WIFI, Disaster Recovery, SAN, and Security solutions.

Greenpath Debt Solutions

System Administrator • Sep 2011 — Sep 2013

Administration of (largely) helpdesk solutions for a 500+ user nonprofit.

  • Implemented Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting to give visibility into infrastructure
  • Replaced fleet of Terminal Services servers with VMWare View VDI
  • Developed a tool to allow for chat support team to more quickly enter information, increasing the volume of chats each could take.

Verizon/Frontier Communications

Systems Engineer • May 2006 — Sep 2011

Advanced support technician for several internal & external customers

  • Developed and unofficially implemented innovative scripting solutions to streamline workflows and reduce task completion time for the team, demonstrating initiative and technical acumen.