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Work Experience

• IT Support Technician/System Administrator, 

  Jul, 2017 - Present

  WP Engine is a WordPress hosting/service company.

  • React, Apollo, Styled Components

  • Node.js microservices

  • Deployed on Kubenetes/GCloud (I didn't set it up)

• Customer Support Specialist L1A, 

  Nov, 2017 - Aug, 20189 months

  WP Engine is a WordPress hosting/service company.

  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

• Customer Support Specialist L1, 

  Jul, 2017 - Nov, 20174 months

  WP Engine is a WordPress hosting/service company.

  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

• Computer Technician, 

  Dec, 2015 - Jun, 20166 months

  Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

  • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

  • Larger market share than Yahoo's and Microsoft's content distribution network

  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

  • Contains over 2000 popular Javascript libraries

  • Millions of developers visit the site per year

• Help Desk Technician, 

  Jun, 2006 - Sep, 20063 months

  Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

  • Developed new tools for contacting congress

  • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

  • Lots of social networking integration

• Help Desk Technician, 

  Jun, 2005 - Sep, 20053 months

  Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

  • Managed a small team of developers and designers

  • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

  • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

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