DevOps Engineer

• Apr 2023 - Present

DevOps Software Engineer

• Aug 2022 - Feb 2023

- Worked as a key member of the DevOps team to provide smooth development, continuous deployment, and reliable operation of software for robotic workcells - Took on Site Reliability Engineer responsibilities maximizing uptime and availability of deployed systems by implementing and tuning open source monitoring and alerting stack - Developed and maintained scripts and tooling to automate routine tasks and improve productivity, including provisioning compute and networking equipment for production deployments - Maintained core cloud environment running in AWS, working with services including VPC, EC2 S3, IAM, CloudWatch - Collaborated with development teams to design and build software running natively in Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in highly scalable and resilient systems; Personally designed and built first high availability cluster for production deployment - Collaborated with development teams to design and build software running natively in Docker and Kubernetes, packaged as Helm charts, resulting in highly scalable and resilient systems; Personally designed and built first high availability cluster for production deployment Show less

DevOps Engineer / Linux Systems Engineer

• Sep 2020 - Jul 2022

Various Systems work. Getting in good and early with our upcoming robot overlords. - Developed infrastructure to capture full state of the software system and continuously re-deploy to new and existing machines to maintain a uniform runtime environment - Manage software build environments and DevOps workflows for automated regression testing - Troubleshoot IT issues pertaining to networking, OS, compute hardware, storage - Daily scripting and tools development to automate any and all systems administration tasks - Containerized multiple applications in Docker, Kubernetes for portability and availability across hosts - Deployed proof-of-concept pilot projects to AWS using EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS for backend services - Built automated data pipeline connecting external sources to internal reporting infrastructure Show less

Web Applications Support Engineer

• 2018 - Jul 2020

- Integrated IIS web servers and applications into customers' existing environments, supporting large-scale system upgrades and promoting continuous optimization- Guided customers in projecting capacity and assessing hardware needs for upcoming years- Led third party web service integrations within customer environments- Developed internal tools for automating daily tasks in C#, Powershell- Advised customers on networking and server architecture, with the heaviest focus on security Show less

Technical Support Engineer, Pharmacy Application (Willow)

• Mar 2017 - 2018

- Led 10-person workgroup owning design, documentation, and small development projects for medication ordering functionality- Analyzed large data sets from customer environments to inform operational decisions- Bridged the gap between end users and backend developers for continuous improvement

Research Associate

• 2014 - 2016

− Researched alternative methods of heat removal for high power generation electronics, applying mathematical solutions to fluid flow problems driven by large temperature differences − Implemented computational solutions using Python, Matlab, and Mathematica, writing unique code using numerical methods to solve differential equations − Utilized techniques of statistics and data science to manipulate and visualize complex data sets − Collaborated with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on-site in Tsukuba, Japan Show less

Research Assistant

• 2013 - 2014

− Examined shape-controlled synthesis of silver nanoparticles, surface characterizations using electron microscopy − Optimized experimental parameters based on statistical analysis of size and shape distributions of particles − Performed batch reactions and utilized various techniques of wet chemistry − Examined shape-controlled synthesis of silver nanoparticles, surface characterizations using electron microscopy − Optimized experimental parameters based on statistical analysis of size and shape distributions of particles − Performed batch reactions and utilized various techniques of wet chemistry

Field Engineering Intern

• 2011 - 2011