Experience

iPlant Collaborative

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2010 - Present

  Tucson, Arizona Area Designed and developed a job execution system written in Go that runs on HTCondor and executes apps defined by users that use bioinformatics tools packaged in Docker images. Created microservices written in Go and Clojure that communicate over HTTP/JSON or the AMQP protocol for the Discovery Environment product. Constructed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate deployment and system administration tasks. Implemented continuous deployments to an integration environment… Show more Designed and developed a job execution system written in Go that runs on HTCondor and executes apps defined by users that use bioinformatics tools packaged in Docker images. Created microservices written in Go and Clojure that communicate over HTTP/JSON or the AMQP protocol for the Discovery Environment product. Constructed Ansible playbooks and roles to automate deployment and system administration tasks. Implemented continuous deployments to an integration environment using Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker. Helped create an integration test suite with Docker, Docker Compose, and PyDev. Responsible (along with the rest of the team) for deployments and maintenance of multiple environments, including production. Introduced Clojure, Go, Ansible, and Docker to the Discovery Environment technology stack. Show less



Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Designer II

  • Feb 2007 - Jul 2010

  Responsible for coding, releasing, and maintaining the first few releases of a cross-platform content distribution client written in Python. Created plugins that allowed the client to import content into multiple Opsware/HP products. Wrote multiple peer-reviewed versions of a functional specification for a new metadata format to be used in the client. Co-designed and wrote an internal custom content management system in Python using the Pylons web framework with… Show more Responsible for coding, releasing, and maintaining the first few releases of a cross-platform content distribution client written in Python. Created plugins that allowed the client to import content into multiple Opsware/HP products. Wrote multiple peer-reviewed versions of a functional specification for a new metadata format to be used in the client. Co-designed and wrote an internal custom content management system in Python using the Pylons web framework with SQLAlchemy, Mako, Javascript, and PostgreSQL. Show less



Red Hat

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2004 - Feb 2007

  Implemented new features and bugfixes for client applications and RHN's Python backend. Responsible for troubleshooting customer issues and generating hotfixes in a timely manner. Promoted to Software Engineer from Associate Software Engineer in 2006.



Myron L Company

• Software Engineer

  • 2003 - 2004

  As a contract engineer, wrote a reporting tool in REALbasic that communicated with a hand-held water quality instrument. Designed and wrote a testing application in Python that exercised the code on the hand-held instrument. Installed and administered a Subversion installation running on Red Hat Linux 9.0.