SUMMARY:

• Experienced in design and implementation of end to end cloud solutions (SaaS, PaaS or laaS).
• Integration experience with on - demand cloud providers - Aws, Azure, Bluemix; with on premise solutions (hybrid cloud)
• Defined enterprise cloud strategy, standards and leading practices associated with all aspects of cloud capabilities (compute, data, storage, security, identity & access, self-service, performance)
• Over 10 years of software development experience defining, developing, architecting and supporting server side applications and e-commerce solutions.
• Advanced system administration experience with Linux/Centos/Redhat Operating systems, particularly in cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), and SoftLayer
• Over 6 years of experience in continuous integration, continuous delivery
• Designed, developed and maintained build management and continuous integration tools
• Experience with Rackspace, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform / App Engine, OpenStack, VMware vCloud, IBM SoftLayer, Microsoft Azure, Force.com, CloudFoundry, Red Hat OpenShift, and Heroku
• Familiarity with network protocols, from IP, TCP, UDP to HTTP

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Architect

• Wrote infrastructure cookbooks/recipes to configure third-party API management tool.
• Used chef provisioner to launch clusters of servers in the cloud.
• Using provisioner, configured servers in parallel using Chef.
• Wrote continuous deployment and integration pipelines for configuration software as well as third party software.

Confidential

Senior Management Consultant

• Defined overall cloud strategy and vision for enterprise clients.
• Worked with executive leadership to implement configuration management and cloud orchestration
• Authored and lead the development of several shared service cookbooks
• Defined best practices for cookbook standards, taxonomy, and attribute namespace.
• Defined CI/CD process for both infrastructure cookbooks as well as application specific cookbooks.
• Led integration efforts for orchestration via ServiceNow into all aspects of cloud (compute, data, storage, security, identity & access, self-service, performance).
• Automated the provisioning and configuration of environments using best practices and industry leading tools
• Automated the testing of provisioned environments using Docker

Confidential

Management Consultant

• Lead the implementation of systems according to design of complex development efforts
• Help design, implement and support infrastructure with an understanding of Windows/Linux, networking, storage, security and application dependencies
• Standardized, automated and documented setup of development and production environments.
• Designed highly available fault tolerant architecture on AWS, across availability zones and availability regions.
• Support in establishing Enterprise VPN and cloud VPC integration with data center.
• Provisioning of compute, storage, network components in AWS/Vmware
• Application deployment and data migration.
• Developed and implemented monitoring tools with reporting, dashboards and alerts.

Confidential

Technology Consultant

• Managed teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures.
• Designed and communicated DevOps roadmap with executive team
• Designed and develop the CI/CD pipeline
• Architected and developed network and application monitoring and reporting systems.
• Through understanding of automation practices throughout the development, build, and deployment phases of the application life-cycle
• Built and maintained high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed software systems
• Wrote Chef recipes with unit and integration tests using Docker, test-kitchen
• Helped to rearchitect entire systems to create software that scales.
• Utilized Laravel , an MVC Framework for writting backend RESTful web services
• Completed cloud server migration AWS/EC2 .
• Optimized Cloud Search functionality and decreased network hops.
• Added Elastic Load Balancing ( ELB ) to production EC2 nodes to allow for horizontal scaling.
• Utilized distributed caching (Redis) to support quick in ram lookups O(1)
• Implemented rate limiting for API services.
• Performed UI optimizations with grunt, gulp and other tools.
• Examined their existing infrastructure and crafted solutions to decouple services.
• Wrote CHEF recipes to configure various environments.
• Monitored server and application performance.

Confidential

Technical Lead

• Played the role of counselor and coach; provided input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participated in staff recruitment and retention activities; provided leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices
• Participated in product discussions in order to understand the needs of the team to help guide the technology roadmap
• Independently analyzed existing ecommerce offering and architected the design for a revamped e-commerce platform that generates over $1 billion a year in revenue.
• Recognized for being a self starter and received funding to lead a cross functional team to implement new designs.
• Managed and delivered components of projects that identify, design, and implement technology and creative business solutions for large companies
• Spearheaded initiatives for designing and creating fault-tolerant, highly available services across regions, and data centers all while reducing cost and increasing scalability.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

• Setup and maintained cloud servers on Rackspace .
• Wrote installation scripts to create custom platform with proprietary packages.
• Pitched the usefulness of MongoDB for metric gathering and analysis.
• Insured data durability and reliability of MongoDB by utilizing replica sets.
• Strongly advocated unit testing of backend services and laid the foundation of the test suite.
• Using Zend ( MVC ), built new functionality within the core application that is not only extendable but also testable.
• Fixed bugs within the application and wrote tests cases to ensure proper business output.
• Assisted in the interviewing and onboarding of new employees.
• Wrote bash scripts for local environment setup and database refresh.
• On personal time, pruned through server logs and identified vulnerabilities, errors/warnings in application that can be later addressed.

Confidential

Senior Web Services Engineer

• Created lightweight objects to track performance and identify bottlenecks across entire Web layer from single functions to classes to libraries (similar to New Relic ).
• Performed load testing via JMeter across all servers.
• Utilized NoSQL based solution ( MongoDB ) to store performance metrics.
• Utilized MapReduce to process large volumes of datasets on Amazon cloud using EC2 instances and S2 for storage.
• Thoroughly reviewed business requirements and business model to create a proper metric reporting system.
• Wrote technical specifications based on business requirements for the integration of a billing/subscription service into our webservice API .
• Worked with cross functional teams at Salesforce, 3rd party billing/subscription vendors and within organization to push out our integrated solution.
• Setup ubuntu servers with Apache , Apache Solr , Tomcat , activeMQ and other services for production, development and staging environments.

Confidential

Senior Web Developer/Manager

• Solely responsible for migrating newly acquired family of sites into data center.
• Migrated content of sites into a CMS system and templatized all sites.
• Project efforts generated over $1 million in yearly revenue and used advanced SEO practices to rate high within Google searches.
• Managed a remote international team of three and a local US team of two.
• Closely worked with other teams to create services for REST and SOAP .
• Wrote PHP 5 OOP factory libraries utilizing web services to grab content from different sources ( REST / SOAP ).
• Single handedly migrated acquired sites in various platforms (.net, java) to a unified LAMP stack.
• Moved over 46+ acquired websites into a single MVC templatized framework.

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Web Engineer

• Created backend architecture to support abuse entries - content marked as SPAM. Added ACLs to allows admins and content owners to remove/address specific entries (AbuseMangementTool)
• Utilized open source technologies to enable predictive search with searches against localized content to reduce server load.
• Using 3rd-party API s, allowed users to import their social contacts into the application.
• Integrated Twitter API to show real time tweets from the RottenTomatoes user.
• Single handedly upgraded vBulletin from version 2.x to version 3.5. The upgrade removed numerous security and xss (cross site scripting) issues.
• Created single signon for Vbulletin and our application.
• Performed benchmarking on leading MVC technologies and their benefits to the company.
• Improved localization for UK, US, and AU content based on user's country.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Application and Web developer

• Created an in-house Wiki application written in PHP with MySQL datastore that allows developers to write information pertaining to custom applications developed for DB2 mainframe systems.
• The wiki allowed internal support staff to quickly identify known issues and create new bugs to be addressed by the developer staff.
• Performed upgrades on vb.net 1.1 intranet to use the concept of layouts.
• Added logging and exception handling to both the intranet and extranet sites.
• Unified intranet by upgrading the codebase to vb.net 2.0
• Created site menus using ComponentArt, DevExpress and used Telerik UI controls to format data and create reports.
• Wrote cron jobs to automate the backup of the application and data store.

Confidential, Mesa, AZ

Content Engineer

• Created a command line utility in j2se that would parse xmls and perform analysis on its integrity and search for known bugs. This personal initiative automated a manual process that saved the company countless man hours and expedited the flow of new content into our data store - Oracle.
• Responsible for content deployment using xml, xslt against in house utility.
• Responsible for analyzing all incoming content xmls for validity and accuracy.
• Assembled documentation for proper processing and error checking.
• Worked with business units to correct content for Math, Science, and History products.
• Pushed existing product from development to staging and finally to production.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

VB.Net Developer

• Designed and implemented virtual analysts - applications that would perform the tasks of customer service representatives on customer data.
• Applications were designed to be data driven where each function can be called independently of others and were driven by Rules.
• Ensured that these applications that ran in batch processes, met business requirements, company guidelines and adhered to team infrastructure.
• Provided 1st and 2nd level support for job scheduling, reporting and application assessment.