Overview of Qualifications

Great organization, communication and multitasking skills
Excellent troubleshooting and technical support abilities
Team-oriented and strong independent worker
Very fast learner, keeps up-to-date. Experienced and self-taught.
Extremely fluent with Python, Golang and shell; comfortable with Node.js and Ruby
Linux as a hobby as well as career
Meticulous documentation

Software & Skills

EC2 / RDS
ECS / EKS
Route53
SQS
VPC
...etc

Chef

Berkshelf
Custom Cookbooks
Test-Kitchen

CI / CD

Jenkins
Travis

Code Generation

Protobuf

Config Management

Ansible
Chef
Puppet

Containers

Docker
ECS
Mesos
Marathon

Database / KV

Consul
MongoDB
MySQL
Redis
Zookeeper

Development

git
nvm
rvm
Vagrant
Virtualenv

Documentation

Markdown
Confluence
Wikitext
Graphviz Dot

Metric Collection

Collectd
Statsd
SNMP

Monitoring

Sensu
Riemann
Seyren
Datadog
Nagios

Networking

arp
dnsmasq
netcat
tcpdump

Network Filesystems

nfs
iSCSI

Programming

Fluent

Python
Golang
Posix Shell

Comfortable

Node.js
Ruby
C#

Project Management

Trello
JIRA
Pivotal

Security

Nessus
SonarQube

Shell Mastery

ag / grep
GNU Coreutils
Make
tmux / zsh
vim

Template Infrastructure

Cloudformation
Terraform

Virtualization

VFIO passthrough

Xen
Virtualbox

Visualization

Graphite
Grafana
InfluxDB

Web Servers / Proxies

Apache
Nginx
HAProxy

Hardware

Physical

Server Provisioning
Maintenance
Upgrades

Network

Monitoring
Troubleshooting

Systems

Linux

Distros

Alpine
Arch
Ubuntu / Debian
Centos / Red Hat

Init

sysvinit (including custom runlevel jobs)
systemd (including custom units)

User level systemd jobs

Dotfile management
Bootloaders

GRUB2
Systemd-boot

Mac OSX
Windows

Server 2008, 2012
Desktop: 7 & 10

Professional Experience

2017 - Present: Senior Devops Engineer - Nomis Solutions

Wrote Names API, a Golang microservice designed to automatically generate standardize tags, DNS records, and Terraform resource names
Automated deployment of applications using Terraform, Python, Fabric and Docker
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, including fully operational replicating MongoDB clusters, as part of a MEAN stack.
Overhauled the manually maintained monitoring system from Nagios XI to Datadog.
Wrote services-scaler, a Python microservice designed to control the size of auto scaling workers based on RabbitMQ queue length.
Wrote NomisPy, a generic and reusable Python library for internal organization purposes.

2017 - 2021: Senior Infrastructure Engineer– Nomis Solutions, Inc

Wrote NamesAPI - a Golang API that provides standardized resource names and tags
Was instrumental in tracking down performance bottlenecks and critical production application issues
Built automated application deployment pipelines with AWS Step Functions, Fargate, ECS and Terraform
Authored generic and composable Terraform modules for commonly needed infrastructure and tasks (EG: ALB with automatic https certificate and DNS record)
Migrated manual deployment process with Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy
Wrote NomisPy - a general purpose and org specific Python library

2015 - 2017: Senior Infrastructure Engineer– Forever, Inc

Wrote datamon - a Python daemon that monitors the production Postgres instance, system metrics, and log entries to spot potential database issues.
Wrote qwatch, a Golang daemon that monitors AWS SQS queues and ships high resolution metrics to Librato.
Wrote Provisioner - a cross-platform bootstrapping program designed to provision Windows / Linux machines with packages, and execute the initial configuration management run.
Expeditiously tracked down root causes for production issues. Vigilant about triaging, fixing, and escalating off-hour alerts.
Performed database migrations and upgrades at the lowest traffic times to ensure little-to-no customer impacting downtime.
Was solely responsible for designing, maintaining, and monitoring the infrastructure at all times.

2013 - 2015: DevOps Engineer– BrandingBrand

Wrote MISHAP - a Golang daemon that reads application routing information from redis and writes HAProxy configuration. It provides real-time (1s resolution) routing of moving, containerized applications on cloud hosts with no dropped connections.
Wrote Dockermon - a Python monitoring / stat-collecting daemon for Docker that ships per-container metrics to Riemann and Graphite.
Built and architected the Marathon / Mesos / Zookeeper fault-tolerant infrastructure. Maintained and monitored the infrastructure and performed many zero-downtime upgrades on the production environment using the blue / green deployment approach.
Wrote commands and plugins for the internal developer CLI tool to simplify the development process. One of such tools, “stage-me”, provides a method for a developer to spin up an entire environment for an application with a single command (not unlike Heroku push).
Rewrote all of the existing infrastructure cookbooks, stripping out cruft and decreasing the total system provisioning time from 40 minutes down to 5.
Well-versed in configuration management software and source control (Chef, puppet, git, etc).
Responsible for the uptime, maintenance, management and upgrades of hundreds of servers. Dedicated to keeping the company’s 99.9% uptime SLA.

2012 - 2013: Site Reliability Engineer – Livestream

Developed scripts, services, and tools to control, monitor, configure, and manage a hybrid physical / cloud infrastructure.
Visualized data through Graphite to trace down hard to find issues and correlated trends across the network.
Experienced in building (physical and virtual) boxes and provisioning them with custom images via PXE.
Extremely comfortable managing and maintaining a wide variety of differing servers, equipment, and systems in the on-site datacenter