Cloud Architect, DevOps/CI Engineer, Systems Administrator
- AWS Certified Architect - PROFESSIONAL.
- Senior infrastructure engineer.
- Full-stack capable.
- Everything-as-code.
- Pro-containerization…
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
- Senior-level infrastructure engineer with experience in various technologies to deliver high-quality, high-availability software and services.
- Application infrastructure, focused on application development and service delivery lifecycle.
- Driving Devops initiatives, with direct focus on tackling and delivering value-add features to customer.
- Able to understand, analyze, and address full-stack application issues, including performance tuning, and security best practices.
LANGUAGES
- INFRASTRUCTURE: AWS, Azure, Bare-metal (VMWare VSphere + Kubernetes).
- CONTAINERS: Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Dockerfiles.
- OPERATIONS: Ansible, Bash.
- SCRIPTING: Node, JA, some Java, Helm, Terraform (yuck).
- DATA: YAML/JSON, SQL, HTML, XML, REST (CRUD).
- MARKUP/DOWN: HTML, Markdown, Typescript (build tools), Swagger.
FRAMEWORKS
- Phaser.io: Web game framework
- Gecko.io: Websocket framework.
- Express: Node framework.
DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS, APPLICATIONS, TOOLS, AND FRAMEWORKS
- AWS: IAM Users and Policies, GovCloud, Regions/Zones, VPC, Subnets (pubic/private), Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, VPN Endpoints, Direct Connect, EFS, RDS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch, Lamba, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudFront.
- EC2/ECS: Task and Containers definitions, IAM policies for auto-scaling, Application LBs and Network LBs, Reserved and other billing mechanisms, Continuous Delivery via ECS.
- DEVOPS AND SYSADMIN: Ansible, Vagrant, Jenkins, Tower, CircleCI, Deploy-bot.
- WEB: Apache, Nginx, PM2, Tomcat, Websockets.
- DATA MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached, MongoDB, RabbitMQ.
- VERSION CONTROL: Git and git alone.
- VPS/PLATFORM: AWS, Azure.
- JAVASCRIPT: yarn, npm, Node.js, Gulp, Grunt, JQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, Express.
- PHP: Laravel, Symfony, Doctrine, Composer, PEAR/PECL, Xdebug, phpunit, Zend2 (old!)
- TEMPLATING/STATIC: Jinja2, Jekyll.
METHODOLOGIES, CONCEPTS, AND PROTOCOLS
- Everything-as-code. Fragile artifacts. Service delivery with lifecycle management.
- Configuration management. CI/CD/CD to multiple tiers to ensure service delivery.
- Understanding of OOP, MVC. State versus stateless, tight and loosely coupled architectures.
- Authentication protocols across web and infrastructure technologies, LDAP, AD, SSO.
- SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS best-practices, SOA and monolith-to-microservice transitions.
- Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.
- REST, HTTP, including web-based API resource development and consumption.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GPL TECHNOLOGIES - CLOUD AND DEVOPS ENGINEER
2018 - Present
GPL Technologies is a multi-customer full-service technology group. With the company, I am responsible for cloud architecture and design, including pre-sale engineering, post-sale design, and in-process implementation. Each customer is provided with a cloud operations toolkit comprised of infrastructure code representing the designed architecture.
Implemented mulitple VDI and render farm solutions.
With GPL Technologies, re-tooled internal MSPs practice to standardize backup services across 30+ customers. Used SaaS experience to deliver solutions, documentations, and deployment tools. Works with customers daily. Participates in pre-sales engineering, and leads all cloud intiatives. Delivered cloud solutions to Lockheed Martin, Skydance Films, Works with Isilon, Qumulo, AWS, Azure, vSphere, Deadline, Linux, Windows, and more.
CONTRACT AWS and DEVOPS CONSULTANT
2014 - 2017
Seattle, WA
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Ocean Service Center - Containerized Java application; web ui and api. Built best-practice AWS infrasturcture giving developers local Docker environment, with CircleCI build, test, and deliver to production.
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Premier Digital Services\GPL Technologies - With GPL Technologies, a national Media & Entertainment consulting firm, built and deployed Ansible Tower, with an full Ansible “Devops” Toolkit for managing phyiscal switching and routing infrastructure (Dell, Arista, and Palo Alto) for a high-bandiwdth media transcoding and encoding group.
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EJGallo Wines/CM-Inc. - Bootstrapped, built, and handed over a VMware/AWS/Docker DevOps Toolkit. Internal team is able to manage infrastructure, systems, and post-provining deployments and configurations all as-code. Featuring Ansible Tower / AWX.
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WDDOnline - “Inherited” a half-complete, AWS environment featuring Windows, Active Directory, Linux, Mysql, MSSQL, SMB sharing, and power-users. Converted it into a stable, best-practice, completely migrated AWS environent, while maintaining nominal price levels during migration, and reducing costs further as the migration completed.
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Luma Pictures - With GPL Technologies, built and helped customer wire-up a ELK stack in Kubernetes, using everything-as-code. Tested with over 13,000,000 events in 24 hours.
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Open English - Drove down costs from 50k/month to 35k/month via measurement (via metrics), best practices, and culture.
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Next University - Migration, and upgrade from legacy, public-subnet servers (static) to best-practice, private services (dynamic) via Ansible everything-as-code. Uses Mysql, Redis, NFS, Nginx, PHP7. Application has maintained uptime to ‘four nines,’ and nominal cost, with CI/CD in place.
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Small Company 1 - Azure, Windows, and Ansible bootstrap kit
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Private Company 2 - FreeBSD stack build, high-visibility LAMP application. Introduced Vagrant/Ansible/Jenkins workflow to allow smooth A/B deployment of Varnish cache layer.
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Typing.com - legacy-to-AWS migration, everything-as-code. High-traffic application servers over 1MM request per day.
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Nitrotype.com - 650GB+ database migration to AWS (Mongo + MySQL) serving over 10,000 concurrent players (race game).
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Promereapp.com - Bootstrap kit and help with AWS application for startup.
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Constructionjobs.com -Bootstap Ansible and deployment kit for Job Search board (Elasticsearch + LAMP app).
5th Kind
Senior IT/Devops
Los Angeles, CA/Seattle, WA
June 2013 - November June 2015
- Oversaw IT growth from 4 bare-metal installs to over 40 virtualized or cloud cluster installs, totalling over 200+ production systems deployed. Implemented Devops practices and tools for a Media & Entertainment SaaS product deployed across Marvel, Nissan, Toyota. File-management and sharing tool, similar to Dropbox. Introduced configuration management on day 1, rebuilt and cleaned entire IT infrastructure.
Royale
Senior IT
Los Angeles, CA
2012 to June 2013
- Managed $2mil IT environment, 20 TB Isilon, 20 TB backup on/off-site, 100 node/800 core/1.6 TB RAM render farm. Data turnover and archive was 5 TB a month.Implemented Active Directory to Linux/OSX servers/stations (AD/OD, schema extension, Isilon, RFC2307, NFS/SMB). Managed fiber WAN install project and integrated into multi-WAN routing (TCP/IP, Cisco, Sonicwall).
GPL Technologies
Media and Entertainment Consultant
Los Angeles, CA
2010 to 2012
- Implemented high-end clustered storages and render farms, managed software across farms, high-level WAN/MPLS integrations.
Vericomm Corporation
IT
Los Angeles, CA
2007 to 2010
- Developed new product line (Point-of-sale systems) generating $200,000 revenue annual. Migrated physical infrastructure to VM platform using open-source/free software (VMWare Server 2). Managed PBX and industry specific applications.
Manx Integrated Solutions
Consultant
Los Angeles, CA
2006 to 2011
- Consultant and System Administrator (Windows, AD, VPN)
PC Club
Lead, On-site Technician
Los Angeles, CA
2004 to 2007
- x86 hardware, servers (Windows 2000 era)
- Freelance PHP Developer - intranet portal for leads, users authentication + CRUD + print, dashboard features in PHP4, LAMP.
Saugus Graphix
Los Angeles, CA
2001 to 2002
- IT Generalist, workflow and file management, digital to physical for a print shop for school district-wide materials.
California State University
Northridge, CA
2003 to 2007
- Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
Cisco NetAcademy 2002 to 2003
- CCNA
- A+ Certification 2001
Interests
- technology, squats, rock climbing, economics, investing, truth.