2022 to present
Cisco Meraki
Senior FedRAMP Engineer:
Implementing automation around container dependencies across multiple teams.
Pushing for fully automated CI/CD of updates, builds and deploys.
Batch auditing, executing and configuring across thousands of servers.
Automating everything.
2016 to 2022
Shoobx
Lead Systems Engineer and ISMC member:
Brought Shoobx infrastructure soundly to the next level.
Converted playbooks to robust configuration management via SaltStack.
Transitioned singletons to HA and throw-away cloud servers, managed through Terraform.
Contributed to and maintained ISO 27001 and 27018 information security policies.
Transformed naive task queues into fully-managed message queues.
Used massive parallelism to reduce 15 hour testing to 10 minutes.
Advocated "Keep It Simple, Stupid."
Automated everything, yet again.
Brought Python to bear.
2010 to 2016
Health Union
Tech Lead:
Automated deployment of systems at Amazon.
Set performance expectations of distributed newsletter platform.
Created production storage platform for UX team.
Led PII-protection and storage policies.
Placed application environment into configuration management.
Integrated external systems with Python and PHP.
2011 to 2012
IBM
Lotus/Domino SpeedTeam: created new automated security tests, added
verification of internal hotfix tools, led recruitment efforts at
top programming contest site.
Fullstack DevOps.
Operation: Docker, Debian/Ubuntu Linux, Apache/Nginx, MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite, PHP/Python, Postfix.
Configuration: SaltStack, Terraform, docker-compose.
Integration/Testing: bash/tclsh, Gitlab/Jenkins CI/CD, sed/awk, coverage, shellcheck.
Monitoring: netdata, prometheus/grafana, filebeat, sensu-go.
Combined with AWS: Certificate Manager ACM, Auto Scaling ASG, Cloud Relational Database RDS, ElastiCache, Elastic Load Balancing ELB, Identity & Access Management IAM, Route 53 R53, Simple Email Service SES, Simple Notification Service SNS, Message Queueing Service SQS, Virtual Private Cloud VPC.
Available upon request.