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Work Background
SelfbookDevOps Director
Apr. 2022 - Dec. 2022Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Remote• Created infrastructure from scratch for new hospitality booking project utilizing AWS. • Docker containers in serverless ECS (Fargate) and Serverless RDS (Postgresql)
• IAC using Terraform
• CI/CD using GitHub actions • Performed pricing reviews and made recommendations based on user load.
• Managed automated pen testing procedures
• Participated in PCI audit data gathering and audit interviews
• Participated in agile celebrations, refinement and sizing, and roadmap discussion meetings weekly
Thrive360DevOps Manager
Mar. 2021 - Apr. 2022Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Hybrid• Performing a full range of devops functions to control systems and attain maximum utilization and efficiency.
• Managed day to day operations for six-person development team and external QA team.
• Scrum master duties, including sprint planning, task sizing and estimation, daily stand-up meetings and twice monthly stakeholders’ meetings
• Built infrastructure stack using Terraform for AWS.
• Performing regular pricing reviews of AWS assets to ensure best sizing and pricing are being utilized
• Scheduled deployments on elastic beanstalk applications.
• Stack included AWS, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, CloudFront, S3 and Lambda
• Managed internal security and privacy training for GDPR, HIPAA and other regulatory compliance protocols as needed.
• Managed automated pen testing procedures • Managed secure access password vault for 10 employees
• Managed G-Suite administration for 30 employees
• Managed Active Directory for 30 employees
• Managed procurement and inventory of computing devices for 30 employees
• Performed automated stress testing during each sprint to ensure that newly deployed code was as performant as previously deployed code.
• Assisted with database query design and tuning as needed.
NCR CorporationSite Reliability Engineer
Aug. 2007 - Nov. 2020Dallas/Fort Worth Area · Remote• Served as subject matter expert for two of NCR’s hospitality enterprise hosted solution products.
• Tech stack included: Azure, MS SQL Server, .net, Chef, Rundeck and SALT server
• Build & maintain multi-tenant VMware platform in multiple international and domestic data centers. Patch automation via WSUS and SALT jobs.
• Automation efforts for both on-premises and cloud-based software deployments using Chef, ARM Templates and Terraform. Transition from manual, batch-based deployments to full pipeline based automated CI/CD deployments for three different hosted applications. Migration from on-prem to Azure based PaaS using ARM and Terraform templates.
• Monitoring application health for a large-scale e-commerce solution using Kibana, built dashboards in Azure Analytics to allow stakeholder access to near and real-time performance metrics.
• SQL server queries and reporting based on development team needs.
• Design jobs via PowerShell and Rundeck over ssh for windows.
• Designs and implements system security measures such as backups, access control, system accounting, and disaster recovery to ensure and maintain system integrity and availability.
• Participates in the development and implementation of agency information system policy to establish agency operating standards and procedures.
• Performs fault isolation and repairs in a complex computing/networking environment independently or in consultation with vendor or other technical personnel to diagnose and correct system problems.
• Participates in the development of internal data management plans and coordinates plans and activities with personnel of other agencies to avoid duplication of efforts, share information, and maximize system efficiency
• Participates in the planning, implementation, and management of special projects to develop project management skills and assisting in achieving agency information systems objectives.