SUMMARY:

• Experience in deploying and integrating mission critical, high availability sites (e.g. vonage.com and goldman.com) with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, and Google.
• Excellent technical skills in all software related disciplines working with start - ups to large companies. (10+ yrs Confidential Technologies, 10+ yrs Linux and open source, 8+ yrs DevOps)
• Hands-on approach with developing and architecting very efficient automated DevOps systems - contributing to the overarching goal of cross-team collaboration and transparency.
• Extensive vertical experience in development, build, test, and deployment (docker, chef, nexus) with a focus on DevOps automation utilizing a continuous delivery model. E.g. Spotify’s published methodology of Squads, Chapters, Tribes and Guilds.
• Worked with several container management tools such as Kubernetes and Docker Swarm and also some continuous configuration automation (CCA) or infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks like Ansible and Terraform.
• Several years of hands-on experience with the Atlassian tools suite Jira and Confluence, Confidential TFS, VSTS (2015-17 version), LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl), and other open source technologies such as Jenkins build/deploy manager and Nagios monitoring tools.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Edgewood, NY

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated on converting legacy applications to Java micro services - Java, Postgres
• Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for our Chef Cookbooks and Microservices - Chef, Ruby, Jenkins, AWS
• Wrote web dashboard interface with AWS utilities using the AWS SDK and CLI to provide status of releases - PHP, Ruby, Jenkins, AWS
• Fixed a large number of Chef application specific cookbooks and recipes that were orphaned and not maintained for months - Chef, Ruby
• Implemented AWS Parameter Store into Chef deployment so sensitive data to reduce the risk of security breaches - Chef, Ruby
• Prototyped a combination of Jira/Confluence/Jenkins/Git to show potential workflows and improvements to current release process.

Confidential, Teterboro, NJ

Senior DevOps Lead/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Standardizing and implementing internal Docker deployment for enterprise consumption - Docker, Docker swarm.
• Accountable for the integration/maintenance/development of application and server monitoring tools (for DevOps) - Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana
• Technical Lead of a three-engineer team responsible for development of web-based test environment tool. The application was written in CGI/Javascript and ran mod python on an Apache web server with integrations into SAP.
• Provided sessions to engineers about the DevOps tools with a focus on containerization and how to implement and maintain Docker into their development processes.
• Member of the Development Environments Software Development Team. The cross-team’s primary responsibility was designing and developing in Python/C/C++/Java the global production environment used by the company.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Director DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Deploy all changes to 10 Evolent environments via PowerShell scripts and automation tools (VSTS and TeamCity).
• Help debug and maintain production support operations escalations. (mostly Windows)
• Migrate all platforms to Azure from local datacenters.
• Lead, coach, and mentor 3 DevOps engineers which included recruiting and .
• Improve time-to-market by introducing automated procedures using CI/CD by VSTS.

Confidential

Senior Technical Manager - DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Java, Shell, C++, Perl, Python
• .NET, JVM, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss
• Ant, Maven, MSBuild with Jenkins for all builds and deployments
• Version control: GIT and Subversion
• Nagios, Grafana, Splunk to monitor DevOps systems and applications
• Administering all DevOps tools and applications and any 3rd party tools
• Process improvements for all responsibilities through automation
• Designing new integrations to the infrastructure implementation

Confidential

Practice Director / Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• My team’s mission was to create, maintain and operate tools and processes that enabled GS developers to write software which was adequately tested and subsequently deployed to the end users (traders) in an agile, rapid, and consistent manner.
• Assuring that QA was testing the correct code paths and making sure new tests were added as necessary.
• Deploying software from the developers to the traders on a bi-weekly basis.
• Providing support to programmers with any problems they were having with their development or runtime environment.
• Accurately assessing the risk of every check-in and making decisions about what to accept based on that assessment.
• Protecting the traders from software related infrastructure errors.
• Minimizing down time of traders’ desks.
• Handling infrastructure mistakes and minimizing damage. Risk managed the software development pipeline, using incremental testing techniques and evangelizing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Issue-Driven Development.
• Developed and managed the Build (SCM) and QA team projects and work items. Owned the engineers’ projects and ensured relevancy to the success of the group.
• Drove forward the workflow or the software development lifecycle for the whole group.
• Prioritized the SCM team projects list and completed tasks on time.
• Worked with other project SCM owners to make sure cross-group development was done accurately and efficiently.
• Managed trade-offs among external stakeholders that created a challenge for the above accountabilities.
• Monitored/gained approval for patches or post build requests.
• Facilitated communication around installation of code; if there was an impasse, I made the final call.
• Helped author the eleven Software Development policies for the firm.

Confidential

Software Test Engineer/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Fixed all build breaks to ensure nightly release.
• Attended and ran the SBS WAR (Ship) meetings.
• Responsible for the hardware budget.
• Built and released the international builds.

Lead Software Design Engineer in Test

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Build Verification Tests (BVT’s) for Media Foundation.
• Originally ported the Confidential builds to the NT build process. Was part of the team that reengineered the Confidential build process from a bi-weekly release to a daily release.
• Managed a team of 12 testers and builders in the Media Foundation group.

Software Test Engineer/Builder/Manager

Windows NT - Build Team

Responsibilities:

• Built the Operating System and the tests for Windows NT.
• Coordinated and organized weekly meetings prior to testing the NT build. (SWAT Team).
• Lab Manager and Network administrator for the NT test and build labs.
• Worked directly with developers to debug and release a build on schedule.
• Resolved and fixed bugs found in the build code.
• Partnered with OEM’s building Windows on several platforms.
• Executed and updated regression tests written in C++.
• Wrote propagation and test tools in C and script files.