This is a summary of what I’ve done.

Lambda, Inc #

Senior Software Engineer, Apr 2022 - Present

Created a repeatable automation pipeline for deploying multi-million dollar deployments, enabling the sales engineering team to bring a new cluster online within hours, not days
Wrote Terraform modules to reduce workload for repeatable tasks
Built continuous delivery pipeline using Terraform Cloud
Directly resulted in tens of millions of dollars in revenue after product launch

Drove major changes to internal VM orchestration platform to handle multiple regions with multiple cloud service providers in the same codebase
Designed abstraction layers and interfaces involved in rewrite to allow multiple underlying implementations to accomplish the same business goals
Enabled support team by creating an easily searched audit log, allowing data gathering on historical trends and identify failing hardware
Orchestration software manages 500+ hypervisors, with thousands of virtual machines

MachineSP #

Cloud Architect, Aug 2020 - Nov 2021

Implement BeyondCorp style authentication and authorization platform
Implement disaster recovery plans and ensure business continuity in the event of a ransomeware attack
Create and maintain security rules to restrict access to production systems

Automate deployment of new database clusters
Deploy autoscaled 32-node cluster, including automated provisioning & data retrieval per-node
Handle sharding of >4TB of mortgage analytics data to be distributed to and queried by worker nodes
Maintain Amazon Web Services account, including ensuring proper development vs production account split
Design & implement new infrastructure and database architecture to allow querying of terabytes of financial data

Completed 3-week turnaround time for a financial report analysis software, including infrastructure, backend services, and integration with a frontend UI
Maintain industry-leading analytics execution times of approx. 1.2 seconds for ~1M rows of financial data, including retrieval from government agency storage
Utilize Redis message queues to orchestrate the half-dozen separate services for the report generation software
Develop clustered analytics work distribution algorithm & communication protocol from scratch
Work with Python & JavaScript’s SocketIO libraries to facilitate easy communication between master, workers, and browser clients

Systems Administrator, Apr 2017 - Feb 2020

Built live-replay functionality from scratch, allowing users to view their past actions in real-time with up to fifteen datapoints stored per second
Wrote 10+ individual data APIs to access network statistics, flight data, weather, airport configuration, and procedures
Designed an OAuth-based single-sign-on application from scratch for use across the network’s services
Implemented additional services as needed in Python, deploying to Kubernetes

Hired to redesign and rebuild from scratch the website running the New York division of a simulation network
Promoted from Senior Developer to manage all infrastructure on a global network presence, including web, application, and software PoPs
Three thousand users signed up for product pre-release in less than 6 months, averaging ~50 registrations per day
Configured and promoted use of container-based workloads through Kubernetes, including fully automated source-to-production deployments
Managed connection with FAA servers, receiving ~100GB/day of real-world flight data
Architected & implemented CDN-backed product download server, allowing unlimited bandwidth available to any client through an authenticated and authorized connection
Managed Google Cloud Platform presence, with approx. 50 servers not including containerized applications
Conducted screenings and interviews of prospective new hires

Software Engineer, Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

Designd & maintaind integration between core platform and partner banks to manage health savings accounts (HSAs)
Rewrote cryptography and API libraries as needed to assist with external platform integration
Worked with CTO on internal processes to ensure compatibility with outside platforms
Occasionally assisted with additional projects, such as analytics tracking, cloud identity access management, and online presence review
Deployed & maintain Kubernetes cluster to serve website content
Created Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery cluster & pipelines
Developed internal processes to maintain production vs beta vs alpha environments

Teacher, Seasonal, Sept 2016 - July 2020

Taught programming for middle and high school students
Taught through camp, as well as at the year-long program Coditum
Group sizes of 2 - 5 students
Basic through advanced courses
Promoted to Technology Director to manage the camp’s technology assets
Managed wireless & wired network to be used by campers & teachers
Assisted in managing online AWS resources, including building gameservers for students
Built remote desktop solution for students to access from home during global pandemic
Object Oriented Programming concepts & implementation
Networking
Java
Python

CTO, May 2016 - Feb 2020

Designed from scratch a cloud and local hardware and software infrastructure to support ongoing software development
Managed additional infrastructure on Amazon Web Services & Google Cloud Platform
oVirt, Xen, and ESXi Hypervisors
Supermicro & Dell servers
Windows Active Directory
CentOS, Debian, Alpine, and CoreOS Linux, FreeBSD
Apache & Nginx Server/HAProxy LB
RAID Configuration/Management
Cisco Enterprise Networking
PubSub Messaging Platform
BIND/PowerDNS
MySQL/Mongo
SSL/PKI Design/Development/Implementation
Git Project Management
IPMI & iDRAC Remote Managers
Django & Flask Python Webservers
pfSense Router
Kubernetes

Family projects

Built hardware and networking infrastructure for family software development projects
Developed all server side processes, designed, implemented, and built databases
Managing software infrastructure on Amazon Web Services
SES
SNS
Lambda
EB
ELB
EBS
EC2
RDS
S3
CloudFront
Route53
VPC
Code Commit/Build/Deploy/Pipeline
CloudWatch
IAM
WorkMail