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Work Experience

• Cloud Engineer III, 

  Dec, 2018 - Present

  Focused on implementing SRE standards and best practices.

  • Created services to manage SLAs, SLOs, & SLIs and derive error budgets from associated application metrics

  • Developed a unified UI to consolidate deployment tooling and metrics into a single interface

  • Developed SRE career progression path

  • Implemented SRE interviewing standards

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer, 

  Apr, 2016 - Nov, 20182 years 7 months

  In this role, I lead a team of software engineers with a focus on delivering software-defined infrastructure services.

  • Lead design, development, and implementation of a storage provisioning and management platform

  • Coached and mentored engineers of all skill levels

  • Lead efforts to standardize and streamline software development practices

  • Implemented objective interview practices for engineering applicants across our organization

  • Implemented and lead technical interview panel

  • Lead major POC efforts regarding software defined infrastructure

• Technical Expert, 

  Sep, 2015 - Apr, 20167 months

  In this role, my main focus was driving implementation of modern technology practices in a legacy environment.

  • Planning, design, and proof of concept for a distributed container platform to support all Walmart distribution centers

  • Implemented CI/CD systems and processes to facilitate hundreds of users contributing to centralized configuration management of over 50,000 Linux systems

  • Drove the use of configuration management testing patterns by creating easy to use repository templates that could be distributed across the company

  • Champion of software defined infrastructure to internal business units

• Principal Software Engineer, 

  Apr, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 4 months

  • Helped deliver object storage service that was over 2 exabytes in size and supported millions of users

  • Team won the President's award, which is the highest honor given by EMC

  • Implemented three US VMWare clouds to support internal EMC IT workloads

  • Deployment automation including bare-metal provisioning, platform configuration, and shared services (NTP, DNS, Tacacs+, etc..)

  • Created the initial designs and POC environments for API driven compute, network, and storage services leveraging Openstack, Ceph, and Cisco ASRs

• Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 2011 - Apr, 20143 years 3 months

  • Developed bare-metal provisioning systems to enable real time system deployment or reclamation. The overall process time for deploying a physical server went from 3 months to 18 minutes.

  • Created a system leveraging SNMP trap handlers to invoke auto-remediation for infrastructure devices

  • Implemented higher level APIs above infrastructure endpoints to enforce business rules, provide unified identity, and support audit logging

  • Developed an in-memory Linux distribution that supported dynamic inventory and component auditing of physical servers

  • Designed and implemented a system for provisioning and configuration of F5 Virtual Edition (Early form of LBaaS)

  • Created a storage and network mapping solution to support provisioning and impact analysis

  • Implementation of software tracking platform to help reduce TCO of virtualized software installations

  • Designed system to discover unused resources in corporate data centers so they could be reclaimed or decommissioned

• Warranty Coordinator, 

  Jul, 2010 - Jan, 20115 months

  • Created highly optimized SQL procedures to assist with data mining and analytics

  • Database management of SQL server clusters

• IT Intern, 

  Jan, 2009 - May, 20101 year 4 months

  • System support for faculty, staff, and students

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