SUMMARY:

• My first experience with external hosting on behalf of huge publishers in the cloud using containers at Confidential .
• Since then there has been a steady rise in AWS hosting in all of my work. In particular, two recent roles speak to this directly.
• At Confidential, we have been migrating dev teams and their containerized apps both into and out of AWS, Azure, and GoogleCloud.
• At The Confidential, in addition to many other initiatives, we migrated ALL of their dev ops and most of their production bare metal hosting to AWS.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Data, Systems Infrastructure and Dev Ops Engineer

Confidential, NYC

• This ad tech firm needs enormous rebuilding of its NYC engineering team, including automation of systems, data and app testing.
• This requires getting organized across all environments with 10 AWS Java Teams, RDS and Kafka on Linux.

Development Team Support, Testing & Platform Automation Engineer

Confidential, NYC

• Automation of infrastructure on kvm & bare - metal hosts (BMP) using OpenStack Mitaka and RedHat OpenShift (Kubernetes) and CloudForms.
• Developer and admin team onboarding, training, manual testing, debugging, team coordination of new releases and other related service components.
• Advanced federated security and high-availability Ceph/MariaDB/MongoDB solutions.

Development Operations Engineer & Technical Project Manager

Confidential, NYC

• Complete hands-on migration of multiple high-speed algorithmic trading apps from external vendor into internal low-latency network data center with "naked access" to trading exchanges.
• Constructed complete plan fir network, app and data migrations and testing under heavy time constraints, and in coordination with multiple internal business units and external vendors.
• Migrated and tested apps, assisting development teams and operations engineers.
• All migration goals were met under deadline with no adverse impact to the business, developer workflows, nor to externally connected clients.
• Hands-on engineering included deployments, configuration management, release management, code testing, dev support, log aggregations and real-time filtering.

Dev Ops Engineer, DBA & Software Architect

Confidential, NYC

• Confidential 's Real-Time Health Web Ad Bidding Exchange Platform allows advertisers to optimally target publisher traffic with highly strategic online marketing campaigns.
• Technical requirements were escalating rapidly in many respects due to rapid growth. In addition to working through regularly scheduled support and developer requests, we standardized their LAMP and MEAN stacks and trained their engineers and development team to use git/github, as well as to leverage expert database technologies and services.

Database Architect, Engineer & Developer

Confidential, NYC

• Hands-on network data systems and python development solutions for legal media rights division of Confidential, formerly RightsFlow.
• Customized federated dba-dashboard (bash, git, php, python) for real-time data stats and database processing job monitoring and tracking.
• Complete transactional and historical (ETL) MySQL data center enterprise planning, scheduling, testing and implementations. All python3/MySQL recoding and instance upgrades from version 5.1.x to version 5.5.37, including SQL MODE='TRADITIONAL' and INNODB STRICT mode to make MySQL VERY Oracle-like in terms of data quality. This included the design and implementation of many monitoring tools, stored procedures, error handlers, bash scripts and python apps, as well as models for data security and business user support. All production changes were of **no** adverse impact to production. Trained dev teams to use git/github, and to write python & MySQL code using best-of-class automated test-release-deploy practices.

Senior Database Administrator & PHP Developer

Confidential

• Supported 20+ instances of MySQL 24/7 using InnoDB & Replication, including code testing & change management.
• All performance tuning and network failover solutions designed for maximum performance, uptime and fast recovery.
• Supported large development teams with baremetal dev stack, data and network host infrastructure.
• Architected and automated MySQL Data Warehouse for analytical demographics & stats reporting.

Drupal Architect, Developer, LAMP Engineer

Confidential, NYC

• Giant magazine publisher, new to LAMP infrastructure, decided to bring Drupal 6.x in-house while doing massive web site overhaul.
• While supporting a team of Drupal developers, provided complete migration support from legacy proprietary CMS to LAMP stack.
• Coordinated with Rodale LAN Unix and Java dev teams to bring Drupal / LAMP stack in-house, including migration from Oracle.
• Taught existing Rodale IT Unix Admins and Oracle DBA’s how to manage and troubleshoot network MySQL 24/7.
• Trained public school principals and faculty across NYC to engage kids in mastering K-12 test prep strategies.
• Built statistical data warehouses from raw NY State exam and student performance data using MySQL open source database.

Network Media, Publishing & Telephony Test Lab Manager / Engineer

Confidential, NYC

• Designed and managed new technology testing laboratory focused on cutting-edge network media, publishing and telephony technology. Engineered all systems and data testing to improve trade shows, corporate IT infrastructure and technical mag review articles.
• Coordinated promo vendor tools / frameworks for system load testing, application profiling and benchmarking.
• Wrote many published articles on optimizing network server throughput and parallelization of database server loads.

Custom Data Warehouse Engineer, Architect, Developer & Administrator

Confidential

• Hired by Confidential Marketing Division to audit massive batch processing of marketing data by vendor: Acxiom, Inc.
• Developed auditing scripts to verify, track and report errors changes in batch inputs and outputs.
• This work evolved into internal data hosting and reporting platform for historical time-series data trending.
• Tasked by Confidential Management to migrate historical data into new in-house Custom Time Series Data Warehouse.
• Hosted and organized about ten years (2+ petabytes) of credit card demographics and financial banking data.