DevOps and operations engineer with ten years of hands-on AWS experience running production infrastructure for video-streaming and web properties, and over twenty-five years in Linux, Windows, and networked systems. Builds and manages AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and alerting, and serverless applications, with security, scalability, and automation in mind. Member of an on-call rotation supporting global products, and comfortable working autonomously on a fully remote team.
Member of the platform operations team responsible for maintaining the cloud infrastructure for HarryPotter.com (~150k daily active users, ~350req/sec) and DC Universe Infinite (~125k subscribers, ~150 req/sec).
Member of the operations team responsible for the infrastructure of AWeber.com, a leading email marketing service provider.
Responsible for providing IT consulting services to small and medium businesses, including systems administration, end-user tech support, both remotely and on-site.
Oversaw the technical operations for Hypotenuse, the umbrella under which operate a collection of automated telephone polling and get-out-the-vote companies. Responsibilities included the telephone calling infrastructure, an automated call center capable of 1,995 simultaneous calls, maintaining Windows Server based architecture for email, file, and web services, multi-site Asterisk based internal phone system, and design and implementation of web architecture.
AWS (ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless), serverless architecture, multi-region deployments. Terraform, Chef, Puppet.
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, Docker. Monitoring, alerting, and observability with CloudWatch alarms and metrics, Datadog, Grafana, Graphite, and Nagios; on-call incident response.
Years of experience maintaining Linux, UNIX, and Windows environments and services including Apache, nginx, IIS, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Postfix, and Exchange, plus virtualization with KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, and Vagrant.
TCP/IP networking, F5 BIG-IP and software load balancing (nginx/HAProxy), and firewalls (iptables, hardware firewalls).
Python, Bash, and PowerShell scripting; JavaScript, HTML, and CSS web development; C# and Java.