CANDIDATE SUMMARY:

Senior Software and Systems Engineer interested in remote contract opportunities in the areas of Development, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, and Automation

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

OS: FreeBSD, Solaris (RISC & x86), HP - UX, AIX, OpenServer, IRIX, BSD O/S, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux (Gentoo, RedHat, Slackware, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu), Darwin, SmartOS, CoreOS

Network Services: BIND, DJBDNS/TinyDNS, PowerDNS, DNSMasq, Nginx, Lighttp, Apache, AOL Server, Iplanet/SunOne, Cherokee (contributor), Public File, Qmail, Smail, Postfix, Sendmail, Courier(MTA&IMAP), Q-Popper, Quick-POP, DSpam, Manage Sieve, SpamAssassin, Dovecot, Cyrus IMAP, Zarafa, OpenLDAP, Zimbra, etcd, ZooKeeper

Web Platforms: web2py (contributor), Google App Engine, Zope, WebSphere, JRun, BAS, JBoss, Weblogic, Ruby on Rails, Orbit, Kepler, Django, Quixote, CherryPy, LuCI, Pyramid, Flask, Lift, CloudFoundry, BlueMix, AppScale, OpenShift

CMS/DMS: Plone, Silva, Nuxeo, Hippo, Documentum, Vignette, OpenCMS, WordPress, Joomla, Serendipity, Xoops, Sputnik, Actuate

Version Control: Fossil (contributor), DaRCS, Mercurial, Git, Gitolite, Github, GitLab ClearCase, SVN, Perforce, RCS, CVS, SVK, Gerrit

Monitoring: Nagios, SiteScope, Tivoli, OpenView, NetHealth, RRDTool/Cacti, MRTG, ZenOSS, Icinga, Zabbix, Loggly, Grafana, Sumo Logic, Splunk ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

Security: BSD PF, Gauntlet, Firewall-1, Firebox, Raptor, Interlock, IPFilter, IPTables/IPChains, Socks, m0n0Wall, PFSense, Pentasafe, SAINT, SATAN, ISS, Nessus, Qualus, CryptoCard, Vasco, V-OneAIDE, Tripwire, Abacus, Snort/HogWash, Dragon, RealSecure, Yubico

Languages: AWK, Python, Lua, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Racket/PLTScheme, Sed, Go, Rust, Elixir, Shell (Korn/ksh93, bash, dash, mksh, zsh), Sieve, Procmail, BASIC, ZPT, DTML, AutoIT, Erlang, Pike, Java, C, C++, Ruby, Perl, PHP

Dev Frameworks: Appcelerator Titanium (certified),Ansca Corona, YUI, LiveCode Cappuccino,Copas, PhoneGap (Cordova), jQuery, Prototype, Twisted

Misc: SaltStack (contributor), Salt bootstrap (contributor), Ansible, Puppet (certified), Chef, Jira, Peregrin, FogBugz, Acunote, PT, Mantis, Remedy, ClearQuest, BladeLogic, UC4, Scriptaculous, Pyjamas (contributor), jQuery, Bamboo, Hudson/Jenkins, RackSpace Cloud, AWS, RVM (contributor),RBEnv, Chef, RightScale, LibCloud, BuildBot, Boomi, Mulesoft, Fabric, Fleet, Kubernetes, Heat, Cloudify, Rocket, Docker, Containers, Zones, Jails, PkgSrc

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Founder/DevOps Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage ALM and SDLC infrastructure for clients with SCM (git, p4, mercurial, fossil), CICD, in hybrid public/private cloud environments (SmartDC, OpenStack, RSCloud, GCE, AWS, Azure, DinCloud, etc)
• Build a maintain infrastructure for autonomous package delivery
• Coach/Train clients and consultants on automation, orchestration, and configuration management tools such as Fabric, SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, Cloudify, CloudFormation, Terraform

Confidential

Sr. SRE and Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manage orchestration and cloud provisioning (Terraform, CloudFormation, SaltCloud, Kubernetes, Ansible)
• Evaluate, design, and implement virtualization orchestration strategies for various internal applications (Docker, Rocket, Triton, CoreOS, SmartOS)
• Design and implement multi - site logging and monitoring framework (SaltStack, ELK, Graphite, and Zabbix)

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Augment their training bench and professional services team to meet their client demands
• Do pre- and post- sales engineering including architecture, designimplementation, and development work on the core Cloudify product.
• Design and implement their development pipeline
• Build out the multi-cloud infrastructure for their core application
• Build custom tools for managing their infrastructure resources (DNS, IP addresses, Directory services, etc)
• Foster engagement and adoption in technical communities by participating in and presenting at various conferences and user groups:

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer/DevOps Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage and administer mixed infrastructure with virtualized (Ganeti and V - Sphere) and bare metal nodes.
• Develop tools and utilities for infrastructure management (web2py, djangoPython, shell, awk, SQL)
• Configuration management (Chef, CFE 3)
• Version Control and build infrastructure
• Manage and automate deployments (SaltStack & Ansible)
• Manage specific critical infrastructure services: LDAP (OpenLDAP), Mail (Postfix, Zimbra, PGPU, Postfixadmin), Jabber(ejabberd), Atlassian Stack (Jira, Crucible, FishEye, Confluence, Stash), Warrant Canary system
• Lead and organize development and infrastructure code/configuration sprints

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer/DevOps Lead

Responsibilities:

• Build web service abstraction layer for integrating BigWorld game engine with XBoxLive Payments, consumables, and user management systems (Django, Python, C#, RabbitMQ)
• Automate client and game engine build, build - testing, and deployment (Korn Shell, SaltStack)
• Build up and serve as technical lead for the web development team in Chicago for Confidential and Wargaming North America
• Automate tools and services deployment (Puppet & Fabric)
• Collect requirements and create a project plan for redesign and implementation of new user/gamer portal
• Lead tools discovery and justification:
• Application Scaling, Automation, Configuration Management, Remote
• Execution, Deployment, Monitoring: SaltStack

Tools: Python, POSIX Shell, KSH88, KSH93 Service APIs: CherryPy, web2py

Confidential

Owner/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Custom mobile applications development (iOS and Android) in Appcelerator Titanium, PhoneGap, Ansca Corona and/or RunRev LiveCode including web services API integration (ReST XML and JSON)
• Develop several high value web applications including Loan Management software (in Zope/Python), Real Estate Listing applications (Plone, Web2Py and Ruby on Rails) and social media (web2py, Google AppEngine)
• Managed several teams of consultants for both domestic and off - shore projects
• Managed several multi-million dollar budget projects including security assessment and penetration testing, complete infrastructure build out, custom application development
• Seek, acquire and develop talent in various technical areas to meet needs both in house and externally for several clients
• Perform efficiency evaluations, contingency and capacity planning for several clients resulting in millions of dollars in savings
• Perform compliance and code audits, security reviews and penetration tests
• Design and implement custom build/development environments including continuous integration (Hudson/Jenkins, Bamboo, Build Bot), version control (Fossil, Git/Gitolite, Mercurial, Subversion), packaging and build automation (Ant, Maven, Rake, Make), deployment (Vlad, Capistrano, Rake, Salt), and configuration management (Salt, Chef, Parallel, Puppet)

Confidential

Cloud Services Architect/DevOps Lead

Responsibilities:

• Manage DevOps projects and staff
• Interface and coordinate with QA, Development, and corporate operations teams
• Design infrastructure, build tools, and create configuration for out dynamically scaling environments including development, testing, and Production
• Automate application development lifecycle for continuous delivery
• CFEngine, Chef, and SaltStack Configuration Management and Application Orchestration
• OpenStack & DeltaCloud Application Infrastructure and scaling
• Shell, AWK, Python, web2py Utilities, scripts, and web services
• Version control (Git, gitolite, gitlab and Github Enterprise)
• Continuous integration (Jenkins and Bamboo)
• Redesign and implement core product components (Python, RabbitMQ, Redis)

Confidential

Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support fully cloud based (AWS/EC2 w/RightScale) infrastructure hosting multiple Ruby on Rails and Sinatra applications
• Manage, develop, and enhance operations utilities using Ruby, Rails, SinatraChef, Puppet, Shell, Capistrano, Rake and other technologies
• Design, implement, and automate robust, scalable, fault tolerant systems
• Discover and document all systems (RightScale, Chef, Puppet, Ruby, Capistrano scripts and/or configuration) and procedures related to customer facing systems and services

Confidential

Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and build (as the sole implementor) Development support and testing infrastructure including clustered geo - redundant version control systems, continuous integration (Hudson/Jenkins), and automated packaging (Maven) and deployment (Puppet)
• Support application environment consisting of Apache Web Server, Squid, JBoss, Tibco, MySQL, Oracle RAC, Linux (CentOS & RHEL)
• Provide top-tier support for Production and Pre-Production environments for ur customers (Airlines) and partners
• Document legacy systems and procedures as well as the new ones being put in place
• Manage local and off-shore team members

Confidential

Systems Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Build out, support and maintain development and QA environments for Clearing group (on RHEL and Solaris with Weblogic, Tomcat and EMMA)
• Develop custom applications(CLI and Web based) to better facilitate system monitoring and environment support
• Maintain and extend existing scripts and applications
• Develop comprehensive set of on - boarding material including wiki documentation, video tutorials, and example run-books
• Support development and QA teams by; managing software deploymentsmonitoring multiple environments, and trouble shooting environment, system, and applications issues