Gabriel Stone - Solutions Architect/Developer/SRE, IBM

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Work Background

IBMSolutions Architect

Nov. 2021Bethesda, Maryland, United States

TextNowSenior SRE Software Developer

Dec. 2020 - Nov. 2021Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaProjects included Istio/Envoy & Cloud Custodian implementations. Managed CI/CD and observability infrastructure. Interviewed, onboarded & trained newer SRE team members. On-call duties.

GeminiSenior Site Reliability Engineer

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2020Portland, Oregon AreaProjects included transitioning sandbox environment from KVM to Proxmox, HashiCorp Nomad PoC, Pulsar using Nomad/Docker, SageMaker/Astronomer/Databricks. Daily duties included PostgreSQL administration, improving Ansible codebase to further automation goals, on-call duties.

Learning.comDevOps Engineer

Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2019Portland, Oregon AreaSpearheaded transition from CloudFormation/Troposphere to Terraform and Etcd to DynamoDB, with daily duties including interfacing with EC2, S3, ElastiCache, VPC, etc.

Zimmer BiometSenior Development Engineer II

Apr. 2017 - Sep. 2018Portland, Oregon AreaImplemented build pipelines (Go), monitoring (Munin) and log management (Graylog) for all environments. Led transition from Linode to Azure for our build and back-end servers. Managed both desktop (.EXE) and iOS mobile (.ipa) pipeline build artifacts.

IT MotivesEngineer II (Dexcom)

Oct. 2016 - Apr. 2017Portland, Oregon AreaEmployed Ansible to dynamically update DNS entries for our cloud environments running a mix of CentOS and Ubuntu; administrative work with Atlassian Jira/HipChat, OpenVPN, etc.

Strategic Staffing SolutionsSenior Development Specialist (Cigna)

Feb. 2016 - Aug. 2016Portland, Oregon AreaAssisted with efforts to implement continuous deployment with CM tools such as Ansible and Salt to manage nginx, haproxy, and more in different environments.

Peak HostingDevOps Software Engineer

May. 2015 - Jul. 2015Tualatin, OregonWorked on maintaining in-house Python-based provisioning and installation system for bare-metal servers.

Optimization Technologies, Inc.Software Engineer

Feb. 2011 - Dec. 2015Portland, Oregon AreaPerform design, implementation and maintenance of software used in avionics systems and electric vehicle charging stations.

Jive SoftwareSoftware Support Engineer

Aug. 2010 - Feb. 2011Rendered support for multitiered Java applications, fixed bugs in code base and employed SQL to apply fixes to customer databases.

SabrixSupport Analyst

Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2010Worked with their flagship transaction tax management engine (J2EE) supporting customers and their varied deployments and ERP integrations.

Unified GrocersSupport Specialist

Jan. 2007 - Sep. 2009Diagnosed problems for a variety of cash register and retail back office systems; also troubleshot local- and wide-area network issues Created standalone Java Swing-based application to parse text-based orders from members, and coded logic for a department spreadsheet to import and manipulate store data from internal call tracking database (using SQL Server RDBMS)

Stream InternationalSupport Analyst

Mar. 2004 - Aug. 2005Provided technical support to thousands of customers in a high-volume call center environment while maintaining award-winning low call times; also trained floor technicians in the use and support of new products

Fry's ElectronicsComputer/Software Sales

Jul. 2003 - Feb. 2004Provided floor customers with timely assistance regarding potential purchases while maintaining aisle presentation (also received promotion into commission-based sales)

Help Computer ServicesComputer Technician

Mar. 2001 - Sep. 2002Diagnosed and solved both hardware and software issues with desktops and laptops while prioritizing incoming computer service calls