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Work Experience

• Senior DevOps Engineer, AdvisorEngine

  Nov, 2021 - Present

  Led platform, infrastructure, and security improvements for cloud-hosted engineering environments using infrastructure as code, automation, and operational best practices.

  • Redesigned Kubernetes-based deployments across development, staging, production, and DevOps management environments using Terraform infrastructure as code.

  • Created and maintained Helm charts for services where charts did not already exist, improving deployment consistency and repeatability.

  • Standardized deployment patterns using Terraform modules and layered Helm values across multiple environments, merging shared defaults with environment-specific configuration to improve consistency, repeatability, and release management.

  • Developed and implemented DevOps practices to improve delivery speed, reliability, and operational consistency.

  • Established and maintained best practices for cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.

  • Mentored team members on DevOps workflows, automation practices, and platform engineering standards.

• Independent Consultant, UnderGrid Network Services

  Jan, 1998 - Present

  Delivered Linux, cloud, automation, and developer-platform consulting for a variety of clients with an emphasis on reproducible infrastructure, CI/CD, packaging, and operations automation.

  • Built Python, shell, and automation tooling to streamline operational workflows and software delivery.

  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines and GitHub-based workflow automation for internal and client projects.

  • Worked with Python packaging and release workflows including PyPI publication patterns, versioning, dependency management, and reproducible build environments.

  • Designed containerized and Docker-based development and deployment environments for consistency across teams and systems.

• Lead Engineer, Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO)

  Mar, 2020 - Sep, 20211 year 5 months

  Developed and maintained AWS-hosted product solutions supporting financial services, credit, risk, and anti-money-laundering platforms.

  • Maintained a portfolio of financial services and banking operations products.

  • Migrated an existing OpenShift-based product to an AWS PaaS solution for regulated industries.

  • Partnered across engineering teams to standardize deployment and operational practices for cloud-hosted applications.

• Cloud Solutions Engineer, Sterling

  May, 2017 - Oct, 20192 years 5 months

  Automated enterprise application delivery into AWS and supported development teams with cloud templates, CI/CD workflows, and container-based build systems.

  • Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD deployments running on ECS with dynamic build nodes.

  • Developed and maintained shared Jenkins Pipeline library functions for repeatable engineering workflows.

  • Built Docker images for CI/CD build nodes and integrated container image scanning into delivery pipelines.

  • Collaborated with development teams on reusable deployment patterns and cloud automation.

• Senior Automation Engineer, Sterling

  Jan, 2015 - May, 20172 years 4 months

  Automated application platform deployments and standardized infrastructure operations using SaltStack and related automation tooling.

  • Provided application support for backend infrastructure.

  • Converted Ansible deployments to SaltStack.

  • Improved operational consistency through automation and reusable deployment patterns.

• Systems Engineer/Automation & Tooling Engineer, Cox Media Group Technology

  Aug, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 5 months

  Managed Linux infrastructure and contributed to DevOps automation, tooling standards, AWS architecture, and open-source configuration-management workflows.

  • Worked within a DevOps environment to manage systems in concert with development and operations teams.

  • Assisted in defining Puppet best practices workflow.

  • Worked with open-source upstream authors to improve Puppet Forge modules.

  • Supported AWS deployment architecture for platform redesign efforts.

• Staff Network Engineer, Damballa, Inc.

  Apr, 2012 - Aug, 20131 year 4 months

  Managed Debian Linux servers in VMware environments supporting a cybersecurity company focused on advanced threat monitoring.

  • Led implementation of Puppet configuration management.

  • Deployed Splunk for security log handling and analysis.

  • Led technical and operational aspects of a data center relocation.

  • Scaled Hadoop infrastructure to support growth.

• Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, The Weather Channel

  Sep, 2011 - Apr, 20127 months

  Managed Linux systems across multiple data centers in a Xen virtualization environment.

  • Implemented Puppet configuration management installation and setup.

• UNIX Systems Administrator, General Dynamics Information Technology

  Sep, 2010 - Sep, 20111 year

  Served as Linux/UNIX subject matter expert supporting enterprise systems in a government data center.

  • Managed Red Hat Network Satellite and RHEL systems.

  • Maintained operational control over proxy and secure email gateway systems.

  • Provided cross-platform administrative support.

• Systems Administrator, Barracuda Networks

  Nov, 2009 - Sep, 201010 months

  Performed operational administration of Debian and CentOS production environments.

  • Implemented centralized Puppet configuration management across production Linux servers.

  • Redesigned Nagios monitoring for production following operational best practices.

• UNIX Systems Administrator II, Web.com

  Jul, 2007 - Nov, 20092 years 4 months

  Led redesign of enterprise monitoring systems spanning geographically distributed data centers.

  • Implemented large-scale monitoring using open-source tooling and virtualization.

  • Developed Shell, Python, and Perl scripts to automate frequent administrative tasks and data import workflows.

  • Coordinated with storage and network engineering teams on infrastructure deployments and migrations.

• IT Administrator, Reflex Security, Inc.

  Dec, 2006 - Jun, 20076 months

• Senior Network Operations Center Engineer, Tandberg Television

  Jul, 2006 - Nov, 20064 months

• Network Administrator, NTT Multimedia Communications Laboratories, Inc.

  Apr, 2001 - Jul, 20065 years 3 months

• Network Administrator, Netsurfer, Inc.

  Feb, 1999 - Jan, 20011 year 11 months

• Senior Systems Administrator, Southnet Telecom Services, Inc.

  Feb, 1998 - Feb, 19991 year

• Technical Support, World Lynx, Inc.

  Dec, 1996 - Jan, 19981 year 1 month

Projects Experience

• Nagios Plugin Development

  Jan, 2002 - Dec, 20054 years

  Open-source monitoring framework plugins

  • Developer with commit access to the source code repository.

  • Ported network plugins to support either IPv4 or IPv6.

• Puppet Labs

  Jan, 2013 - Dec, 20153 years

  Open-source configuration management platform

  • Submitted GitHub pull requests resolving bug reports accepted into upstream releases.

  • Participated in community pull-request triage meetings.

• SaltStack

  Jan, 2015 - Jan, 20172 years

  Infrastructure and automation platform

  • Submitted GitHub pull requests resolving bug reports accepted into release.

  • Co-presented at SaltConf '16 conference.

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