Experience

OTTO

• Germany
• Online and Mail Order Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Cloud Engineer

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Cloud Engineer dealing with Compliances and Account Creation for GCP and AWS. Cloud Engineer dealing with Compliances and Account Creation for GCP and AWS.



Exporo

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cloud Engineer

  • Dec 2019 - May 2021

  Cloud Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining an AWS Multi-Account infrastructure. Focused on developing and researching new technologies to improve workflows, security, costs, and overall infrastructure. • Created automation scripts and cloud-technology guidelines to help teams build more stable and secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC). • Acted as an internal Solution Architect for other teams to help them develop better and more secure cloud solutions. • Discovered and resolved a rogue Lambda Function that quadrupled the monthly AWS cost. Resolved the issue and was able to work with AWS to gain access to a startup grant and partial refund that was worth over 100,000€. • Developed an easy to maintain Access Management system using OneLogin to limit unnecessary access and movability of developers to different teams. • Maintained Onelogin access to AWS for ease access as well as maintained AWS IAM Roles and policies • Acted as the Administrator for the Github repo. Developing github workflow policies and templates to Show less



Goodgame Studios

• Germany
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• DevOps/Cloud Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

  DevOps Engineer responsible for developing cloud-based solutions for internal IT operations. • Migrated and secured old applications to AWS utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates and AWS CDK. DevOps Engineer responsible for developing cloud-based solutions for internal IT operations. • Migrated and secured old applications to AWS utilizing AWS CloudFormation templates and AWS CDK.



Harris Corporation

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer III

  • Jul 2018 - Jul 2019

  Cloud Engineer for Internal Research and Development projects that explored new contract opportunities for next-generation U.S. Weather and Air Force aerospace ground-control systems. This position required the exploration of emerging software and cutting-edge technology to evolve existing and future aerospace projects; presenting technical demonstrations to customers and project management for pursuits worth over $180 million; and perform the initial research, design, and development for new contract pursuits and projects. • Responsible for maintaining Kubernetes and other core cloud, cluster, and DevOps technologies for R&D projects in the Google Cloud with high uptime and reliability requirements.• Reduced servers, disks, and snapshots usage within Google Cloud, which saves $1000s each year.• Supports a task that ingests live GOES-R Weather Satellite data from the NOAA Big Data Project stored within AWS (Amazon Web Service) and then processes the data within the Google Cloud.• Reduced monthly cloud expenses from $10,000 to $5000 Show less

• Software Engineer II

  • May 2013 - Jul 2018

  Software Application Engineer that was responsible for developing and integrating key technologies for Enterprise Management systems that resulted in seamless operations on the GOES-R Weather Satellite Ground Systems (https://www.goes-r.gov/) under the joint ownership of NOAA and NASA. This position required becoming the Subject Matter Expert for wide range of software including Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Cloud; working with teams ranging from Developers to Security; developing and deploying new features and tools that the Operations team requested.• Project Lead for the Containerization and Deployment prototyping task, which supported a U.S. Department of Defense Satellite contract pursuit.• Created scripts that automated server creation, clustering, and management. This included generating new Firewall rules, cluster roles, and account privileges within the Google Cloud Product.• Task lead of a team that upgraded software applications on over 60 servers, when the servers were being upgraded from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6. Show less

• Software Engineer I

  • Sep 2011 - May 2013

  Software Application Engineer and subject-matter expert for business intelligence and analytics software for a U.S Department of Veterans Affairs’ contract.• Deployed and maintained IBM Cognos solution that generated a federated enterprise view of the customer’s IT infrastructure. • Worked with engineers to redesign the data input, processing, and storage in the database. This internal pipeline improvement saved the project $1000s in licensing and support fees each year.