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AstrumU®Senior DevOps Engineer
Jun. 2023Bellevue, Washington, United StatesSenior engineer supporting engineering and data science teams working on education tech and skills/training products utilizing internal machine learning and commercial AI. Primarily supporting, creating, and configuring environments in Azure and with the following tools: CI/CD: Pulumi, Github Actions Languages: typescript, python, golang Scripting: bash, python, powershell Azure Resources: AKS (Kubernetes), standard networking resources, Azure Firewall & Policies, Application Gateway, API Management Service, Functions Apps, Cosmos, Container Registry, Hosted Zones, Open AI, Azure ML, Document Intelligence, Windows 365, Entra/AAD, InTune Other:
devcontainer, Docker, Ray clusters, AWS, Azure DevOps, VS Code and extensions
DataStaxSenior Software Engineer
Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2023Kirkland, Washington, United StatesReverse engineering and documenting existing systems, creating automation using Terraform, bash, and Helm. Updating network infrastructure to obtain PCI compliance and enabling multi-cloud functionality. Working closely with other teams to provide on-call troubleshooting. Heavily involved in design of new systems. Identifying vulnerabilities, implementing process improvements and upgrades. Developing complex automation using Golang. Updating existing codebase. AWS, GCP, Azure, GKE, AKS, EKS, Helm, Stern, Terraform, Bash, AWS Transit Gateway, Azure vWAN Hub, Snyk, AWS S3, AWS Route 53, VPC and VNET configuration, Cilium, Splunk, Golang (Go), ArgoCD
Nortal USSDE III
Mar. 2020 - Jan. 2022Consulting and development work on various engagements, both independently and as part of large teams, short turn around projects and longer term engagements. Technologies used: Kubernetes (managed) on GCP and Azure
Terraform
Helm
Docker
Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Edge Runtime
Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper & Rego
InfluxData DB, time series database
InfluxData Telegraf
Grafana
Development work with Go (Golang)
Work with MQTT and AMQP protocols
CircleCI
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
PostgreSQL Focuses on Golang development work, edge computing, Internet of Things, container-based services and applications, site reliability, container orchestration, container security and permissions, and data engineering. Currently studying and developing skills in: More data-related services, blockchain ledger technologies, smart contract development, industry 4.0 and industrial IoT.
Nortal USCloud Engineer II
Jun. 2019 - Mar. 2020
10th MagnitudeCloud Automation Engineer / Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Apr. 2018 - May. 2019Kirkland, Washington
MediaPro LLCDevOps Engineer
Aug. 2017 - Apr. 2018Bothell, WAWorking closely with development teams (local and offshore, C# and Ruby on Rails) to provide platforms and pipelines in order to speed up the development and delivery process. Improving environment stability, security, and scalability. Troubleshooting Windows and Linux hosts in the public cloud (Azure, AWS). Adding redundancy and fault tolerance. Reducing manual interventions through automation and associated infrastructure. Developing documentation and knowledge-sharing practices. Helping to develop a formalized process around build releases and release management. Responsible for environments and pipelines from development through to Production. Leading Production code deployments. Technologies and Products
Azure, AWS, Atlassian (Jenkins, Jira, Confluence), Powershell, Windows Server, Ubuntu, .NET, Rails, ARM templates, Desired State Configuration, Ansible, Kubernetes, Package management and repositories (NuGet, npm, RubyGems, Docker registry), Docker containers.
Thomson ReutersSystems Administrator - DevOps and QA teams
Feb. 2015 - Aug. 2017Bellevue, WAAs a Sys Admin on the DevOps team I combine my duties supporting the QA environments (updates, deployments, troubleshooting) with building out automation to streamline development and testing of a leading cloud service for the legal industry. Current projects include a proof of concept deployment in the Azure public cloud with related automation via Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Powershell Workflows, Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) including writing custom DSC resources. Other technologies: TFS
VMWare PowerCLI
VCOps/vRealize
Troubleshooting .NET exceptions
SQL Server (+replication)
NoSQL - ElasticSearch
Linux / ESXi hosts Agile(-ish) development methodology.
MicrosoftService Engineer 2 (V-)
Jun. 2013 - Feb. 2015Redmond, WAOperations support for cloud services. 2200+ servers, across 6 global data centers, serving 5 million editing users of office.com web applications.
Automation with Powershell, SQL, System Center.
Security patching.
Software build deployments.
Reporting & monitoring.
Lake Washington Youth Soccer AssociationSoccer Coach (Volunteer)
May. 2013Kirkland, WashingtonU10 - U14
Technical skills training.
Tactical training.
Team & confidence building.
Small sided games.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterDesktop Support Tier 2 (Contract)
Mar. 2013 - Jun. 2013Greater Seattle Area
Advanced 365"Technical Service Desk Analyst" NOC 24/7 Team Engineer
Mar. 2011 - Jul. 2012London, United Kingdom
QVC UKMaster Control Operator & Desktop Administrator
Mar. 2010 - Mar. 2011London, United Kingdom
Four Seasons Health CareService Desk Analyst
Mar. 2008 - Mar. 2010Darlington, United Kingdom
Shenker - The Total English ExperienceEnglish Language Teacher
Jan. 2007 - Jul. 2007Pavia, Italy
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