Experience

Ruvos

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Team Lead, Data Services

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Lead DevOps Engineer on The American Public Health Laboratory’s engineering effort for the CDC’s CELR program, DAART program, ECR programsLead a team of engineers for the various management of any data storage, staging, or searching solution, such as Opensearch, Kafka, S3, DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, and Redshift, and complementary knowledge of integration into data ingestion into any of those solutionsLead architecture efforts for new product designs, applications, or solutions, such as analytics platforms, data lake storage solutions, data warehouse solutions, mass data ingestion solutions, and AWS spend analysis Maintain and deploy multiple tools for data presentation, such as AWS Quicksight, Grafana, Opensearch Dashboards, and extensive homemade toolingDocumentation of procedures and requirements for team members for standardization of blue/green deployments, data services requirements for data storage procedures, nowcasting and forecasting analytics usage, secure data transmission, and data compliance. Building of documentation intended for production support usage, with escalation procedures built inOwnership of all data structures for all platforms in my purview, and lead effort of metadata requirements for application alerting, dashboards requirements, and billing infrastructureHolistic AWS services knowledge, and day to day hands on usage. Leads teaching sessions for new hires on usage of various services and applications hosted inside AWS. Experience in Azure cloud as wellOwnership of Kubernetes based applications, extensive docker and helm experienceCI/CD through GitlabExtensive python scripting, extensive bash scripting, day to day usage of linux systemsExtensive IDP solution experience, Amazon Cognito, Azure AD, KeycloakExperience in compliance on FISMA, HIPAA, and SOC2 Show less

• Sr Elasticsearch Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - Jun 2023

  Management of 20 environments of elasticsearch and opensearch services of public health data. Working with various PHI related environments of health data and securing pipelines, search, and databases appropriately.5 running through AWS elasticsearch & opensearch service1 running on an EC2 instance 11 running in EC2 backed kubernetes clusters, and managed through Rancher and k9sAnd 2 environments on azure AKS.Now running most environments through terraform modules (and projects) written by me. Having used puppet and ansible in the past, I believe terraform to be the most useful infrastructure management tool for cloud based systems. Plenty of IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and other AWS tools used almost daily. Show less



Conversant

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Elasticsearch DBA

  • Jul 2019 - Jun 2021

  Full ELK stack, support the tuning, optimization, and utilization of many different use case clusters. Redhat Linux shop. Different use cases of elastic systems I currently work directly on//support: - Kubernetes based clusters for KafkaConnector clusters, and unimportant elastic infrastructure. Kibana instances likewise built and maintained in these environments by me with security included in all spaces involved. Monitored through graphana and basic health calls. - Puppet infrastructure based environments for on premise self hosted clusters. I currently maintain 5 environments through this format, building through a modified puppet forge module. These environments are all secured by me and upgrades performed twice per year. Started from 6.1.2 and now run 7.9.x - RPM based environments built and maintained by internal tooling--these are deployments that are outside the puppet infrastructure in order to have more flexibility in their configurations. Versioning built by bamboo and stored/tracked via nexus vault. - Search based clusters. These are a different use case than typical monitoring in that elastic is being used as a backend for a search feature--similar to linkedin's search, as well as a bitbucket environment for searching through code bases. - Beats products deployed typically through puppet, or directly as RPMs on supported teams environments. All types of beats products supported in multiple environments. - Bulk Loading jobs through spark and other various python based bulk loads into the elastic environment Experience in garbage collection analysis of elastic products to find 'comfort zone' in maintaining a good steady state java environment, as well as switching from oracle based java to openJDK. All projects are maintained through a team shared internal repo in bitbucket. Kubernetes environments are maintained by helm charts modified by me to match the requirements of the environment. Show less



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Engineer Consultant

  • May 2018 - May 2019

  Both: Engineer on the Threat Manager--Implementation team, and Engineer on Elasticsearch Cyber security team. Use: Ubuntu and Redhat Linux, NiFi, Ambari, Kibana, RESTful calls, Hadoop server clusters, Elasticsearch clusters with Logstash pipelines, Python scripting. Active Clearance. Both: Engineer on the Threat Manager--Implementation team, and Engineer on Elasticsearch Cyber security team. Use: Ubuntu and Redhat Linux, NiFi, Ambari, Kibana, RESTful calls, Hadoop server clusters, Elasticsearch clusters with Logstash pipelines, Python scripting. Active Clearance.



TrafficCast

• Madison, Wisconsin

• Data Editor

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2018

  Worked as a data editor for data wrangling of web scrapers pulling data from thousands of different sources, validating with realtime cellphone data, and processing in our internal databases. The data is used for traffic data for Googlemaps, SiriusXM, iHeart Radio, TOMTOM and more. Worked as a data editor for data wrangling of web scrapers pulling data from thousands of different sources, validating with realtime cellphone data, and processing in our internal databases. The data is used for traffic data for Googlemaps, SiriusXM, iHeart Radio, TOMTOM and more.



Army National Guard

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Intelligence Analyst

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2017

  A Non-Commisioned Officer, who has led and supervised real world missions in Intelligence operations. Helped facilitate large scale FEMA/CERFP emergency preparedness training. Received three Army Accommodation Medals for work well above and beyond my pay grade. Earned a reputation as an expert in the field of intelligence analysis and management. A Non-Commisioned Officer, who has led and supervised real world missions in Intelligence operations. Helped facilitate large scale FEMA/CERFP emergency preparedness training. Received three Army Accommodation Medals for work well above and beyond my pay grade. Earned a reputation as an expert in the field of intelligence analysis and management.



Advicent – now part of InvestCloud

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer in Test

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2016

  I worked on the software automation team in an Agile Environment using JIRA. Daily, I wrote different language scripts to do functional, load, and performance based testing, and wrote my own test plans to do so. Especially skilled in RESTful API testing. I worked on the software automation team in an Agile Environment using JIRA. Daily, I wrote different language scripts to do functional, load, and performance based testing, and wrote my own test plans to do so. Especially skilled in RESTful API testing.