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Work Experience

• Principal Software Engineer, 

  Oct, 2021 - Present

  Global Tech Platform - Google Cloud

  • Engineering Lead for Enterprise GCP Cloud Team responsible for Network Design, Security Integrations, Lifecycle Management, & Cloud Automation/Observability

  • Consultations and Design with internal tech teams to drive business solutions that leverage cloud offerings in scalable and cost-conscious models

  • Responsible for Design and Solutions Architecture spanning Enterprise Cloud Consumption across Business Segments

  • Partner with Cloud Providers on solutions design, feature enhancement, and early testing/feedback on new product developments

  • Successfully lead the design and buildout efforts for a PCI-compliant GCP Cloud environment to serve payment processing workloads across the Walmart footprint

• Staff Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 2018 - Oct, 20213 years 9 months

  Cloud Provider Services

  • Responsible for evaluating and designing consumption models for various cloud services to meet business/customer needs

  • Responsible for ongoing research and training of cloud services to enable customer cloud migrations and cost minimization

  • Responsible for design, deployment, and operational support of all Cloud Network Infrastructure

  • Developed REST APIs to enable Cloud Reporting and Terraform template Deployment

  • Developed tooling to enable self-service of GCP Project Creation/Management for all internal Cloud consumers

• Senior Systems Engineer, 

  Jul, 2016 - Jan, 20181 year 6 months

  Cloud/Metal as a Service

  • Deployment and Management of Canonical Metal as a Service to meet all provisioning needs across Traditional Openstack and Openstack Baremetal (ironic), Ceph Storage, and Hadoop workloads across Geographically distributed Walmart Datacenters

  • Responsible for automation of server provisioning processes (PXE, iPXE, Kickstart) and management of enterprise-scale server environment

  • Designed and develop tool integrations to drive increased automation and improved delivery time for compute

  • Designed and Developed Python3-Based Client Library and Supporting CLI tooling to integrate data gathering processes and API workflows across Network Services and Bare Metal Provisioning Tooling

  • Designed and Implemented workflow to simplify data gathering from multiple sources (mysql/postgres DB’s, github, configuration management, network infrastructure/services) and to automate Enrollment/Deployment of New Compute Resources

  • Developed Scripts to manage Bios/Storage Controller Firmware Downgrade/Upgrade of Physical Compute during automated Commissioning Phase of Deployment workflow

  • Developed Python3 Client libraries and CLI tools for managing components of Network Services (DHCP/DNS) through Infoblox REST API

• Advanced Systems Engineer, 

  Oct, 2014 - Jun, 20161 year 9 months

  Configuration Management

  • Development of Puppet classes to manage configuration of complex server environment across a range of server applications and operating systems

  • Responsible for automation of server provisioning processes (PXE, iPXE, Kickstart) and management of enterprise-scale server environment

  • Responsible for configuration management of 52,000+ server systems (SLES, RHEL)

  • Designed and develop tool integrations to drive increased automation and improved delivery time for server requests

  • Developed Puppet class for management of HP Operations Manager agent – enabling automation and maintenance of 52,000+ monitoring/performance agents

• Network Engineer, 

  Sep, 2011 - Oct, 20143 years

  Enterprise Monitoring

  • Design, implementation, support, and maintenance of massively-scaled enterprise monitoring solutions handling network, server, and application monitoring for multiple regional datacenters and 10,000+ domestic and international sites

  • Responsible for systems administration of 200+ Redhat Linux enterprise monitoring servers

  • Dynamic discovery and monitoring of 100,000+ network and server devices

  • Deployed and maintained HP Operations Agent environment of 30,000+ servers

  • Developed Puppet classes to handle agent deployment, configuration, and maintenance

• Resource Management Supervisor, 

  Jan, 2007 - Oct, 20114 years 9 months

  Call Center Operations/Resource Management

  • Provided operational support and data analysis utilizing multiple software applications to assist in efficient management of call-center handling nationwide traffic.

  • Implementation of IP addressing scheme, configuring systems and proprietary software to facilitate communication with network switches

  • Windows Local Security policy management to pass control to service accounts and proprietary software in addition to execution of batch programs to alter input device configurations to minimize end-user misuse

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