SUMMARY:

• me has architected Google Cloud infrastructure for IOT and web apps, architected and implemented AWS solutions for small marketing firms and developed websites using Django backend framework, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Reliable, driven and dedicated DevOps professional with expertise and experience in network(Cisco) administration, systems administration (VMware, Windows and Linux)
• Cloud Architecting and Administration (AWS and GCP), Configuration Management, release automation, Python scripting/automation and minor full - stack web development (Javascript, HTML, CSS and Django).
• My technical expertise is complemented with proven project management, communication and leadership skills that has earned me top-level recognitions and s.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Linux Systems Administration, AWS
• Google Cloud, Python, Javascript
• Web Development, Automation
• Saltstack, Ansible, Cisco LAN technologies
• Network administration, VMWare
• Customer Service, Project Management
• Communication,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

DevOps Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Participated in build out and migration of entire datacenter to Google Cloud Platform (thousands of services).
• Implemented Terraform for infrastructure deployment
• Wrote self-healing Cloud Functions (serverless)
• Lead decommissioning of old datacenter
• Lead build out of new infrastructure for the brand new Credit Karma Tax team. Meeting all deadlines for 2019 launch.
• Web Server Administrator
• Owned administration of Credit Karma web server fleet. Apache/ Nginx/ Load Balancing and Networking.
• Cloud Production Environment Administrator:
• Approving and monitoring changes to production and managing staging environment in AWS.
• Provisioning infrastructure services (dns, vm's, storage, networking) for new production services
• Building automation scripts to facilitate consistency to changes made to production services allowing for reduction in human error (me.e creating a script to update, take out of live rotation, restart and tan return to live rotation HUNDREDS of apache web servers in a rolling fashion, 10 at a time, when code was deployed to them)
• Consulting Silicon Valley tech companies regarding cloud solutions in both AWS and Google Cloud Platform as well as providing solutions for on-prem environments.
• Cloud Migration and Implementation Strategy
• Serverless Architectures: Containers, AWS Lambda, Paas solutions.
• Automation
• Site Reliability
• Cost Optimization

Confidential

Linux Admin/ DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Placed in charge of datacenter, office and cloud networking
• Proposed and implemented full office network upgrade that immensely improved brand-new softphone service call quality for Sales and Customer Support and allowed for implementation of new VPN solution for hybrid-cloud system
• Placed in charge of researching and implementing a new, robust, high-quality, open-source monitoring stack for new AWS environment to replace on-prem zabbix and nagios applications:
• Proposed and implemented TICK stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor) with Grafana.
• Deployed VictorOps for alerting and incident handling collaboration
• Utilized Saltstack for on-prem configuration management and Saltcloud in AWS, also for CM with included mass instance creation functionality.
• Wrote Python scripts for infrastructure management automation and service integrations e.g to allow visualization of custom application metrics stored in Mysql DB by querying and extracting the needed data, reformatting it and tan storing it into a time-series db.
• Experienced in Lift-and-Shift migration methodology to AWS
• Lead implementation of Atlassian Confluence for centralized Knowledge base solution and auditable project documentation

Confidential

IT Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Initiated, developed and lead a pilot, post-acquisition team to replace the overburdened and undermanned pre-acquisition team that was responsible for upgrading the IT stack, continually improving and implementing IT security measures and assume overall administration of the IT infrastructure of the acquired company’s premiere, full-service, conference management service (Whose clients include Cisco, AWS, Salesforce and Google).
• JAMF and Airwatch device manager Administrator to manage 3000+ iOS devices and 2000+ Mac PC’s.
• Lead and designated trainer for Event Support Services team.
• Served a pivotal role in helping core Cvent (HQ) gain trust with the newly acquired Draper, UT office which was the hub of one of the largest revenue sources at Cvent, serving as the eyes and ears of the Director of IT and CIO, providing feedback to the needs of the office and employees theirin, which led me to initiate the project above. me was nominated and achieved companywide Employee of the Quarter, being the first, ever, from the IS Services team to receive it.
• Lead multiple office relocations, reporting directly to both the Director of IT and the CIO of Cvent.
• Negotiated with vendors, coordinated hardware recycling and information destruction, planned and coordinated build-out of IT infrastructure (networking and server installation).

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• LAN Network configuration and support for SME businesses
• Second level of escalation for Ocenture and 5 links Premiere Technical Support teams.
• Chosen, alongside 4 others, to be part of a team to run a trial service of supporting IoT devices for prospective customer Rheem. The excellent level of support provided by my team was instrumental in closing Rheem as a full customer within the 3-month trial period.

Confidential

On-site IT

Responsibilities:

• Server Management
• Network management and upkeep (introduced Meraki networking devices)
• POS device troubleshooting and management
• Website construction and management
• Technology upgrades