Red VenturesDevOps Architect
Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2017South CharlotteWe use Node, Python, C#, PHP, Scala and Golang for things like APIs, interacting with SaltStack during our custom deployment methods etc. We architected and developed all our own in house deployment methods. We use Nagios, Elastic Search and Grafana (to name a few) and SaltStack for our configuration management/orchestration. We use Vagrant with vagrant plugins, git and shell for developer vm's. We also use docker and windows parallels for our .net container development. We use apache-mono (kinda) for .net containers on linux and IIS with IIS Shared Configs and DFSR, as well as Octopus Deploy for .Net apps. We deploy containers using Kubernetes and our custom Open Source LB I wrote for dynamic LB called (balance) on docker hub. I write all possible code in Python, although most recently (as of now) a GO app to hijack OpenStack RPC calls to automate load balancing, which later switched into cloud init hooks(Dope lol). I do a ton of networking with OVS, bridges, tap devices veth pairs, subnetting, supernetting (fixed and variable). I do all things build with Jenkins and bamboo. I am a git, jira and bit bucket aficionados as well as a Certified Red Hat System Administrator and System Engineer. Oh and Certified WebSphere Pro too. I work with OpenStack and AWS. We are standing up our second production OpenStack inside lxc containers using ansible. We are cloud first so we do use AWS a lot. I do a lot with IAM roles, policies, ACL's, S3 Buckets and automating tasks with Lambda. I know all to well about 12 factor apps, micro services and cloud stuff in general. My current passion is OpenFlow. OpenFlow being open source protocol for interacting with the Control Plan to switches, which can be interacted with via software to control the flow of network traffic. I also enjoy Overlay Networking and rich api's like Cisco. Basically SDN. That in conjunction with Python white hat hacking, and anything DevOps related.