Sr Cloud Architect Resume

SUMMARY:

I am a high - energy problem-solver seeking a successful Architecture or Engineering Lead or Director position with a company prepared to strategically engage emerging technologies and progressive approaches to familiar challenges.
Extensive Amazon AWS and Google Cloud (GCP) designs and HA deployments
Fluent with VCP, EC2, IAM, S3, EFS/EBS, RDS, VPN, ELB and CDN
Deep experience designing and implementing large complex cloud footprints.
Private Cloud
Recognized OpenStack cloud platform expert (architecture and integration)
Superior knowledge of Nova/Neutron/Cinder, Swift, Keystone, Kolla and API automation
Natural leader of cloud engineering teams with public and private workload migrations
Specialization: SDN and Containers
Industry expert with SD - WAN, NFV and legacy design integration
Expert with scaled-out Kubernetes, Docker, LxC, CI/CD strategy and Edge Computing
Specialization: Blockchain and Application Decentralization
Experienced with public / federated Blockchain platforms and solution designs
Proof of Work (PoW), Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Blockchain as Storage
Recent Python development with Ethereum, OpenChain and Quorum
Able to define/refine IaC (infrastructure as code) best practice and Docker image management using CI/CD pipelines; Python, R, Go, Ruby, PHP, Ansible, Chef, Jira, JSON/YAML, Git/Jenkins and Hudson
Extensive experience designing cloud service orchestration patterns and stateless API management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtual Networks: Solid understanding of leading industry SDWAN architectures and players (Contrail, ACI, VMware NSX, OpenDaylight, SR-IOV/DPDK, OPNFV) including traditional networking concepts such as TCP, VxLAN, NVGRE, RIP/EIGRP/OSPF, PPP/VPN/Frame, BGP/MPLS, L3VPN & iSER.

Platform Engineering:

Cloud: Amazon AWS, OpenStack, Google Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes and VMware ESXi

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, Oracle Solaris and Windows Server 2012

Blockchain: Ethereum, OpenChain, Quorum, Bitcoin

Storage: Redis, NoSQL, CEPH Hammer, Swift and centralized (NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, Nimble)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Crypto - currency arbitrage and trade framework in active development using Python, PHP & Redis
Design and develop open cloud deployment system Thunder using Ansible, Python, Cobbler Zabbix, Django
Developed a patented Python-based network appliance configuration module.
Provide cloud industry thought leadership via industry conferences and team coaching.

Confidential

Sr Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Chief architect of complex cloud designs for private and public customers, AWS cloud readiness assessments and AWS workload migrations for external customers.
Develop national cloud-agnostic delivery practice.

Confidential

Sr Web Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Design complex AWS and VMware infrastructure designs and deployment footprints.
Guide and shepherd deployments with an AWS presence requirement.
Demo and evangelize Docker + K8S.

Confidential

Contrail SDN Architect

Responsibilities:

Configure fully-federated clouds across 3 N+2 datacenters connecting compute cloud, Kubernetes+Docker clusters, bare metal and VMware ESXi farms using Contrail SDWAN and NSX.

Confidential

OpenStack Engineer Sr

Responsibilities:

Define network footprint for WebEx development clouds across five discreet data centers.
Teach OpenStack deep-dives, SDN & Python to internal engineers supporting large external customers

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Develop a new cloud consulting practice within Confidential
Advise and produce SoW’s for all potential clients with AWS/EC2, VMware and Google Cloud use cases.

Confidential

Cloud Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

Build and automate a global storage cloud using Chef, OpenStack Swift and Keystone with locations.
Design entailed non-trivial security requirements.

Confidential

SDN Consultant

Responsibilities:

Investigate SDN/NFV players and deployment strategy options; recommend products and best practice methodology for emerging technology roadmap.

Confidential

Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Design multiple custom OpenStack and Hadoop solutions optimized to run custom workloads on high-density hardware with 5-10 racks per design; provide performance data for pre-sales collateral.

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