Experience

Plainsight

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Platform Engineering

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Director of Platform Engineering

  • May 2021 - Feb 2023

  • Lead and Mentor our Platform Engineering Team across Cloud, Infra, and Backend Services Engineering• Perform regular 1 on 1's, performance reviews, code pairing sessions, interviews, and code reviews• Rewrote major parts of our API Ingress/http layer and removed +2k lines of code with a larger feature set• Lead the initiatives for centralized config management, standardized logging and alerting specs, and common OSS observability toolsets• Implemented our Continuous Delivery system and initiated a DevOps Culture that reduced deployment times down to seconds with scheduled and push button deploys. Custom Delivery Pipeline in Golang that leverages GitHub Actions (CI build), Artifactory, Slack (ChatOps), k8s, Docker, GCS and Postgres• Initiated our secure coding practices and systems with a Secrets Management solution built on HashiCorp Vault and GCP SecretManager with custom containers and dynamic runtime secrets injection Show less



Essential Principle, LLC

• Remote

• Owner

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  • Custom Software/Technical Solutions. I enjoy working on SaaS based cloud software products and solving DevOps, and Platform Engineering problems. CI/CD pipelines, log/metric and data pipelines. I also enjoy writing Proxies, LoadBalancers, and designing/architecting Edge Ingress flows for multi-tenant SaaS and single-tenant on-prem installations. I’m passionate about all things observability, IaC, Edge IoT, and building systems that solve real business problems. • Designed, developed, and supported CI/CD pipeline that reduced deployment times down to seconds, with continuous integration into Dev, and push button and scheduled deployments into all other environments. Pipeline was built with Golang, deployed on k8s, and had 99.9% uptime. It also stretched across two major cloud providers (AWS/EKS, and Azure/AKS) and supported +100 users stretched across 3 different companies/organizations and product teams (acquisitions). • Implemented SonarQube DevSecOps solution for project scans that was built with Docker/Helm and deployed on K8s via terraform configuration provisioning • Hand rolled Slack ChatBot in Golang as the interface for a fully automated ChatOps Pipeline • Implemented Prometheus monitoring system, with AlertManger, PagerDuty, Slack Integration and Full RED monitoring/alerting • Developed Microservice Golang REST API backends that were deployed and scaled on AWS managed K8s (EKS) • Integral part of Infrastructure as Code solutions and systems architecture with Terraform. • Helped design and develop k8s scheduler service that integrated with the k8s API for Resource Definition CRUD ops (Kubernetes Services, Deployments, HPA Autoscaler, Resource Constraints/Limits, and PVCs). Show less



Walmart Global Tech

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Apr 2020 - May 2021

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2020



EMS Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. DevOps Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Worked with an extremely wide range of technologies on both Windows and Linux Operating Systems • Heavy Ansible development for Windows and Linux machine provisioning • Implemented multiple SQL Server HA Clusters on Azure and Google Cloud • Implemented multiple HA IIS Web Clusters on Azure and Google Cloud • Provisioned and Supported +100 Virtual Machines across Azure and GCP • Implemented Prometheus monitoring system across both providers • Provided 24/7 on-call Rotation support on a team that scaled from 2 to 5 • Helped implement CI/CD pipeline system that heavily leveraged ChatOps with Slack and Stackstorm • Deep exposure to Stackstorm, and event-driven automation • MSBuild development that tied Veracode Static Scans into CI/CD pipeline • Managed in-house GitLab Server with +130 projects and +60 users • Implemented HA postfix relay with Ansible in GCP and Azure that utilized SendGrid API • Supported Golang, NodeJS, .NET, .NET Core, and React Native (Mobile) development pipeline • Developed Golang REST API endpoints, Python stackstorm actions, Powershell and Python ansible modules, and bash automation scripts • Heavily utilized HashiCorp Vault for PKI and password/secret store • Implemented IaC w/ Terraform to build out 3 Tier HA System on Google Cloud and Azure • Supported +20 Developers, DBAs, and QA/Automation engineers Show less



Walmart Global Tech

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Responsible for Walmart Grocery (grocery.walmart.com) • Responsible for lower and upper environment uptime • Helped implement CI/CD workflow with GitHub, Jenkins, and OneOps • Created RabbitMQ clusters for both lower and upper environments • Created Golang CLI utility for OneOps probing • Supported Development and Deployment of Node.JS, and Java services • Maintained docker build and deployment system • Primarily bash scripting, with a little python, and a sprinkle of Golang Show less



PENSCO Trust Company

• Denver, CO

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

  • Full stack JavaScript Development with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node (MEAN) • Heavy AngularJS and Bootstrap Client Side development • RESTful API development with Express web application framework • JIRA Ticket management using Agile SCRUM methodologies • Docker build and deployment system with Micro-Services Architecture • Full stack JavaScript Development with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node (MEAN) • Heavy AngularJS and Bootstrap Client Side development • RESTful API development with Express web application framework • JIRA Ticket management using Agile SCRUM methodologies • Docker build and deployment system with Micro-Services Architecture



IP Commerce Operating Status: Closed

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Enterprise Level Web Application Development (Visual Studio 2012/2013, ASP.NET MVC4-5, C#, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, Bootstrap, Ajax, T-SQL, AngularJS) • OOP/OOD with various enterprise level design patterns • Intro to Bamboo Continuous Delivery System • Intro to Puppet Change Management System • Rewrote the internal client Admin application (which was in jquery) with Angular 1.x • Enterprise Level Web Application Development (Visual Studio 2012/2013, ASP.NET MVC4-5, C#, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, Bootstrap, Ajax, T-SQL, AngularJS) • OOP/OOD with various enterprise level design patterns • Intro to Bamboo Continuous Delivery System • Intro to Puppet Change Management System • Rewrote the internal client Admin application (which was in jquery) with Angular 1.x



ifficient

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

  • Enterprise Level Web Application Development (Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET MVC, C#, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, Bootstrap, Ajax, T-SQL) • SQL Server 2012 Development (T-SQL) • LLBLGEN Pro Object Relational Mapper • OOP/OOD with various enterprise level design patterns • Enterprise Level Web Application Development (Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET MVC, C#, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI, Bootstrap, Ajax, T-SQL) • SQL Server 2012 Development (T-SQL) • LLBLGEN Pro Object Relational Mapper • OOP/OOD with various enterprise level design patterns



CNJV

• Golden, CO

• Database Specialist

  • May 2010 - Feb 2013

  • Web Application Development (Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, ADO.NET, T-SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI) • MS Access 2007-2010 Development (VBA & SQL) • SQL Server 2008R2 Database Development (T-SQL) • System Migration from MS Access to SQL Server (VBA, SQL, T-SQL) • Employee Spot-On award for outstanding performance • Employee Quarterly award for outstanding performance • Employee Excel Trainer (Beginner - Advanced Techniques) Show less