Experience

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  World Wide Technology

  • Devops Technical Lead
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  World Wide Technology

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

  • DevOps Technical Lead

    • Jan 2021 - Present

    Lead the architecture, infrastructure, automation, performance, and observability for an online marketplace for 3d assets for our customer, Epic Games.* Built a multi-tenant, highly available, and elastic K8s cluster in EKS that utilized the AWS Service mesh ( VPC, Subnets, Security Groups ) to run our applications used by thousands of users.* Architected an application suite that could be used by an internal management team to handle administrating millions of assets via Lambda, StepFunctions, and EventBridge.* Architected and developed zero downtime deployments where we could deploy multiple times per day through Blue/Green and Rolling deployments and ephemeral environments.

  • DevOps Engineer

    • Oct 2018 - Dec 2020

    Lead the infrastructure, automation, performance, and observability of a Point of Sale system for a major pizza restaurant chain that has over 5,000 locations.* Lead the creation of both Cloud based, as well as physical infrastructure and networks that could run in each location.* Lead the creation of performance, soak and load testing against our applications for normal and peak traffic.* Fully automated our monitoring and observability with a cloud and in-store Prometheus/Grafana stack.Lead the infrastructure and automation effort for the creation of an iOS and Android application for our customer, St. Jude. The application was built to help guardians and patients while they are treated at the St. Jude Hospital.* Co-architected the infrastructure and applications being run in Azure. Fully automated how they were created, and how they were updated.* Fully automated the deployment lifecycle for not only our backend APIs, as well as Our St. Jude iOS and Android applications to each respective store.

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  Centene Corporation

  • United States
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Software Engineer ( DevOps )

    • Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

    Began DevOps at Centene. Constructed CI/CD in AWS cloud infrastructure for Java and Angular applications. Worked with Docker running in Kubernetes hosted by Rancher. Automated Kubernetes objects with Helm. Created automation with Jenkinsfiles to create a more programmatic approach in Jenkins itself. Also redeveloped internal application Java and Angular CI/CD process and automation to better use Git as our SCM tool, instead of SVN.

  • Software Engineer

    • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

    Pursued development at Centene. Developed Java Web applications and REST interfaces with Spring's MVC and Hibernate frameworks controlled by the frontend with JSP and JavaScript. Also helped release our Java code dependencies specifically with Maven.

  • System Engineer

    • Feb 2015 - Sep 2016

    Worked in the Middleware domain for many Centene enterprise applications. Focused on automation of applications and processes. Applications ranged from Edifecs EDI, JBoss EAP 5/6, IBM License Metric Tool ( ILMT ). Began work experience with Linux. Automation ranged from Jenkins, ANT, Bash scripts and Chef.

  • System Administrator

    • May 2013 - Feb 2015

    I monitor and test Centene’s different systems, creating custom scripts to achieve this monitoring and interfacing with our monitoring application, Solarwinds. I also gather and disperse monitoring data via custom queries through our monitoring database to the Information Technology departments upper management through a custom created web-dashboard interface, that I have created.

  • Intern, Event Monitoring

    • Apr 2013 - May 2013

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  Coolfire Solutions

  • IT Support

    • Dec 2012 - Apr 2013