Senior DevOps Engineer

Audigent / Experian
March 2024 to Present
Responsibilities
  • Lead a small DevOps team respondsible for managing the Audigent Real Time Data Platform
  • Set team objectives and tracked progress assuring they line up with business priorities
  • Managed integrations with other partners in AdTech Realm
  • Solidifiy and productionize the real time data and publisher platformers
  • Automate code Building & Release process for developers
  • Enable developers to get code to production faster and safer, with easier rollbacks and less
  • Ensure security practices are up to standards to ensure data security for our platform and the clients consuming it
Projects
  • Investigate utilization of Kubernetes on baremetal servers to achieve near baremetal network performance in a high throughput, low latency environment to reduce cost and match demand curve closer
  • Build out monitoring platform, setting up a team oncall rotation and establishing runbooks to assist on call handle incidents in real time
  • Establish Terraform and ansible practices to make scale up simple and reduce blast redius on failures
Technologies Used

Terraform | Python | Golang | Ansible | Prometheus | Grafana | Ubuntu | AWS | GCP | Cloudflare | Javascript | Haproxy | Nginx | Docker | Kubernetes


Senior Site Reliability Engineer

PC Connection
July 2023 to February 2024
Responsibilities
  • Managed critical infrastructure running PC Connections production ecosystem
  • Responding to security incidents with the Azure Platform
  • Managed kuberenetes releases of code from contractors
  • Consulted the linux adminstration team on migration preperation to new datacenters
Projects
  • Migration of legacy infrastrcuture to Azure Cloud
  • Ingegration of Hashicorp Vault into Connections ecosystem for certificate & secret management
  • Setup Databricks and started company migration to utilizing this for its data lake platform
Technologies Used

Kubernetes | Terraform | Python | Ansible | Docker | Packer | Redhat | Azure | AzureDevOps | DataDog | Databricks | Hashicorp Vault


Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Criteo
October 2017 to July 2023
Responsibilities
  • Hired in as Site Reliability Engineer and was promoted to a Senior in April 2020
  • Manage all of Criteo's cloud infrastructure
  • Work to integrate aquisitions into criteo network
  • Maintain legacy cloud infrastructure
  • Ease developer ability to utilize cloud resources on projects through
  • Improved Observability on legacy platforms by implementing prometheus into the environment
Projects
  • Design and built CICD pipeline for Terraform code
  • Design and built BlueGreen CD system for Immutable Cloud Infrastructure deployments
  • Expanding & stabilizing legacy platform to handle unprecidented growth
  • Implemented quickly deployable Cloud Resources to allow for testing software builds before taking them to production
Technologies Used

Terraform | Python | Go | SaltStack | Chef | Ansible | Packer | Prometheus | TestKitchen | Jenkins | DataDog | AWS | Azure | Ubuntu | Centos


Systems Automation Engineer

Nokia
September 2016 to September 2017
Responsibilities
  • Deploy & scale infrastructure for clients
  • Participate in on call to resolve production issues in a timely manner
  • Support developers needs as software needs changed, investigating new technologies and adding them to our systems
  • Maintaining our Configuration as Code Repository, making changes that improved release time and consistency
Projects
  • Built an inhouse deployment framework to ease new releases for customers
  • Built a scalable Jenkins slave cluster to more closely match developer demand for system resources
  • Lead change from compiling software on systems from source to packaging and releasing packaged artifacts, which were automatically built from git tags
  • Brought Infrstracture as Code to company to get a better handle on cloud resources being consumed
  • Refactored companies Configuration as Code system to significantly speed up installs
Technologies Used

Python | Terraform | SaltStack | Ubuntu | Jenkins | AWS | SCons | HDFS


Systems Automation Engineer

Zappos
January 2015 to August 2016
Respondsibilities
  • Deploy physical & virtual servers for internal use
  • Constructed tools to increase team communication during incidents
  • Dynamically generated email lists to ease company transition to holacracy
Technologies Used

Python | AWS | Puppet | Docker