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  • Manager for the NGC-Web, Cloud Edge and Cloud Orchestration teams
  • NGC-Web:
    • Development of Kubernetes operators in Golang to support Drupal operations
    • Design, development and facilitation of developer tools (localhost) to enable developers to test Kubernetes-based workloads prior to CICD deployment
    • Management of rotational on-call support across multiple timezones
  • Cloud Edge:
    • Support, delivery and development of Fastly/CloudFlare/Akamai tooling
    • Development and sustainment of NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX and Varnish/VCL
    • Design and delivery of External DNS, AWS Load Balancers and AWS Load Balancer Controller
    • Management of custom TLS Certificate solutions for non-Drupal workloads
  • Cloud Orchestration:
    • Maintenance of multiple 3rd party vendor platform tools including Istio Service Mesh, External Secrets and Cert-Manager
    • Development of multiple custom Kubernetes Operators to manage role-based-access-control, service-mesh auth and security policies
    • Support of custom VPN/VPC peering solution (Shield) for multiple customers
    • Maintenance and stewardship of HAPI (Hosting API) developed and maintained in PHP and Ruby
  • Hire and develop software/platform engineers to establish high quality standards for software and infrastructure sustainment
  • Manage and report progress on multiple initiatives as required
  • Championed the CICD and Kubernetes platform Architecture delivery using GitHub and OpenShift on the Azure Cloud Platform
  • Managed and drove multiple test-bench (performance testing) systems across 14 APIs as part of the V2 platform development initiative
  • Partnered with Azure engineers to ensure OpenShift and correlated cloud services were optimized for customer workloads
  • Planned and designed multiple initiatives including ephemeral namespaces and secrets-management
  • Hired and mentored multiple DevOps and Linux/Kubernetes engineers as they joined the team
  • Managed a DevOps team of 5 engineers, working across multiple projects and platforms
  • Drove the data-science and machine-learning teams to adopt SaaS-based services for business logic and reporting (Snowflake/Looker)
  • Championed the engineering organizations migration from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise
  • Significantly improved the DNS management of all production services and domains by migrating to NS1 DNS
  • Initial DevOps Architect for moving from IaaS based workloads to Kubernetes (design of the V2 platform)
  • Architected a solid foundation across the Product and Engineering groups for quality release-management, PII (Data) management and CICD practices using Azure DevOps
  • Architected and delivered the DataMover project which enabled development and product (BI) teams to use obfuscated (no-PII) production data in their development environments
  • Improved and closed security issues across multiple codebases, removing sensitive information/keys/secrets from code and pipelines
  • DevOps solution-architect for moving multiple on-prem BI systems to Azure Databricks
  • Helped drive the education of multiple internal teams of the benefits of Azure Cloud for various workloads (Kubernetes/DataBricks)
  • Integrated custom ETL pipelines on-prem to work in tandem with other DataBricks workloads in Azure
  • Designed and delivered a Kubernetes based solution for the balloon ordering system at Party City
  • Championed the discussion of using OpenShift Kubernetes with the internal Linux Administration team and other stakeholders
  • Designed and developed automated software delivery (CICD) on Azure DevOps platform for multiple clients across the energy, government, education and agriculture sectors.
  • Hosted and educated development and operations teams on the principles of CICD while adhering to company change policy and ITIL specifications.
  • Designed, developed and delivered Kubernetes based platforms and hosted workshops with customer engineers to understand Kubernetes basics and operations.
  • Transitioned multiple on-prem customer workloads to Azure Cloud including mailbox, application-workload, software-delivery and database migrations.
  • Developed an on-prem Kubernetes solution to migrate 900+ Drupal websites from classic infrasturcture to CAAS (Containers as a Service)
  • Developed the cluster-builder IAC toolset, with full automation of entire VMWare and CoreOS resources for the infrastructure team to become successful in a Kubernetes Environment.
  • Designed, developed and delivered a working Continuous Integration tool for deployment of multiple Drupal sites with shared assets
  • Developed and hosted Docker-based-development workshops with the development team enabling new development and delivery processes using trunk-based branching and GitLab CI.
  • Responsible for daily operational support and performance management of guest-facing applications and APIs running in Heroku Cloud.
  • Using Ansible and AWS CLI, automated the deployment of the Flynn PAAS for hosting development and testing environments with automated deployments out of CircleCI and GitHub.
  • Provisioned alerting pipeline based on log-based alerts from LogDNA and Papertrail logging applications using PagerDuty API.
  • Provided primary on-call support and DevOps engineering for a variety of Mobile Applications developed in Ruby on Rails and Elixir.
  • Responsible for the design, support, delivery and enhancement of middleware application deployment pipelines for the Rewards and Check-in applications.
  • Implemented various pipelines for code delivery using GitLab, Jenkins, JIRA API and IBM CodeDeploy.
  • Operational support and SRE using systems such as Splunk, Orion, Pingdom and Sumologic.
  • Management of team Ansible roles and migration of modules into Ansible Galaxy for use by other ops teams.
  • PCI Compliance owner for Check-in applications including access-control, server-patching, server hardening and audit preparation of all required documentation.
  • Operationally responsible for all internally developed applications and company websites including criticalmass.com, work.criticalmass.com and financial management/reporting apps.
  • Managed and operationalized zones in Solaris OS for internal applications and required environments for Release Management team and finance team.
  • Assisted in the management of DAM system for creative assets including video, images, fonts etc.
  • Customized and developed an open source video platform written in Python for “CMTV” as an in-house YouTube-style channel.
  • Primary developer on AT&T template development for redesign
  • Developed various templates for teams working on BestBuy and Adidas.com projects
  • Lead a team of 6 developers supporting legacy and new website builds using custom PHP and Java applications.
  • Managed all operational support and hosting for all client websites running at Peer 1 with escalation to infrastructure and development team as needed.
  • Managed development partnerships with other agencies and contractors as required.
  • Liaised with Shaw engineering team on 2 custom websites developed by Suitcase.
  • Developed and enhanced client websites using XHTML, PHP, Java/JSP and Javascript for clients including Rolex, Hyatt, Albertson’s, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente, Dell, Nike, AT&T, Adidas and Best Buy.
  • Developed, tested and delivered custom email templates to over 200K customers for clients using XHTML, CSS and various mass email technology (DYNmail, Yesmail).
  • Managed and delivered weekly company intranet/blog postings for multiple clients
  • Designed and developed custom databases and database reporting applications in order to help the company comply with Sarbanes-Oxley standards.
  • Developed desktop applications in various Windows platform based languages including VB and .NET which revolved around simplifying and writing reporting tools for large Oracle Databases (PL/SQL Development, Oracle Database Management).
  • Developed, managed and hosted various services across a variety of local and international clients
  • Managed primary operational support on all platforms (AWS, RackSpace, Peer1, Sherweb, Digital Ocean, WPEngine and WPCloud)
  • Managed Service Provider for all clients hosting WordPress and other custom software
  • SSL Certificate procurement and management in Apache using a variety of CAs
  • Social Media management including integration of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Periscope
  • Architected end-to-end e-commerce platforms, including security, payment engines (PayPal, Stripe)
  • Provisioned and managed e-mail and back-office integration for small and medium firms including G Suite and Office 365 hosting
  • Attained Certified Partner status with WPEngine and Shopify
  • Developed a time and attendance (time-tracker) application and calendar system that plugged-in to a large existing J2EE Dashboard application used by the US Federal Government Agencies (NASA, National Library of Congress etc.).
  • Duties included JSP and Java programming, Database design (Oracle), SQL Development, BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) wrapper development and Section 508 compliant XHTML and CSS web-development (accessibility requirements for US Government).
  • Built a web-based interactive CD containing the current curriculum and resources for K-12 education in BC. The CD is shipped to over 10,000 teachers annually.
  • Duties included XHTML and CSS compliant coding of all digital assets to be included on the CD as well as learning to create a cross-platform formatted disk.
  • Tasks also included working on the department’s internal wiki and information pages in HTML and Javascript.