Career Profile
Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm expert with a strong aptitude for mentoring, processes, and systems while using collaborative problem solving. Proven track record of optimizing and sustaining systems through automation, using minimal costs. Anything can be automated. Skilled in delivering automation solutions that drive productivity and innovation. Experience in Azure and AWS, cloud/edge/programming language agnostic, and able streamline complex deployment processes while troubleshooting issues.
Experiences
One of the founding members. Defined the multi-tenant cloud environment, including security and account structure. Trained teams on Agile methodologies with a 3 day interactive seminar. Managed relationships with multiple teams as well as act as scrum master and scrum of scrum master. Established/enforced coding standards for quality and vulnerabilities. Created open source pipelines and templatize pipelines in GitHub for asynchronous code scanning, auditing, and environment deployment and scalability using K8S, K3S and helm.
- AWS multi tenant cloud
- MacOS shop
- Terraform
- Traefik k8s network
- GitHub Actions
Build and deploy powershell modules to create SSRS server and grafana as an azure container. Design/implement security model for Azure AD and Azure SQL. Automate testing of federated authentication using graph api. Design/implement express route virtual network. Impliment/automate Federated authentication using Azure B2C.
- Azure multi tenant cloud
- Windows shop
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps pipelines
Build/deploy and maintain Artifactory and Atlassian suite on Azure Ubuntu VMs with nginx docker and application storage in SMB mounts using terraform. Environments could be spooled in 17 minutes in Azure VMs with previous day backups mounted to restore.
- Azure multi tenant cloud
- Windows/Linux shop
- Terraform
- nginx
- TFS/VSTS pipelines
Troubleshoot and debug production issues, assist development team with design and architecture, automate and build powershell and SQL automations for multiple teams to reduce workload.
- On-Prem virtualized environment
- Windows shop
- Powershell
- Internal Processing Server (bash/powershell)
- Maestro
Troubleshoot and triage both on premise and Azure issues, automate application prerequisites and install using powershell runbooks. Automations validated and configured IIS, SQL, and Windows Optional Features. Environment agnostic scripts.
- Hybrid Azure/On-Prem
- Windows shop
- Powershell
- IIS
Build and maintain .net and vb code for multiple business units, designed and implemented automations for key bank processes. Standalone and Office integrated vb apps to automatically solve and respond to requests.
- On-Prem hardware environment
- Windows shop
- Visual Basic/.net
Projects
Where possible, I like to ensure transparency and make my code openly available to anyone who wants to contibute or make suggestions on how to improve. If we aren't growing and learning, we are dying.