Projects
Projects
Erasure encoding
Investigate and tested storage encoding, determining performance characteristics of various encoding types.
Improved storage density by moving from 3x triplicate to 5+2 erasure encoding that improved storage efficiency without greatly impacting platform services.
GTN
Global IPSec mesh network.
Unified 3 clouds, 9 regions, bridged multiple corporate/gov networks.
AWS IPAM
Manage platform IP allocations centrally, and enable automatic management and deployment of ranges to team cloud accounts.
PingIdentity
Architected, deployed and managed customer / internal product SSO.
Created an active-active multi-region deployment with automatic failover.
Ensured clean migration and enabled updates with no downtime.
Netblock registration / management
kr8+
Open source tool to generate static cluster config from jsonnet.
Allows combining manifests from multiple sources (templates, compose, helm, raw) to idempotent generate files to be consumed by automation.
C# login auth
Updated legacy auth system built on MD5, applying modern ciphers and practices to password hash management.
DC Smarthands
Performed smart-hands activities in a variety of datacenters. Managed physical resources, replaced failed parts, and worked with RMA services.
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Technical Skills & System Design
System Architecture
Networking
- Physical Datacenter
- Multi-cloud experience
- IPv4 + IPv6
- Own
2620:C7:6000::/48 netblock
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform / Terragrunt
- Cloudformation
Containerization & Orchestration
- Kubernetes
- Docker-compose
Database Management
- MySQL
- Postgresql
- SQLite
- Cloud-managed (Aurora, )
Programming & Scripting
| Language |
Skill Level |
Projects |
| Go |
9 |
API service, jsonnet configuration templating tool |
| Python |
7 |
Gamestate inegration tool, Micropython on Pi |
| Jsonnet |
7 |
20+ kube clusters |
| Bash |
7 |
CI/CD automation |
| C |
5 |
ESP32 Warwalker |
| C# |
6 |
Dental Practice software |
| PHP |
6 |
Self-service portal |
| HTML/JS |
6 |
Personal blog, various tool websites |
CI/CD Pipelines
- Jenkins - Created deployment pipelines from scratch. Experience migrating pipelines to modern platforms.
- Github / Gitlab / Gitea - Build, test and deploy projects. Experience with deploying and managing self-hosted runners.
- Atlantis - Automated terraform plan and apply operations
- Ansible - Managed network appliance policy configuration
- Puppet - Managed multi-datacenter, multi-cloud platform systems
Monitoring & Observability
- Prometheus - funnel and manage existing flows, integrate metrics into applications
- OTel - Experience managing metrics and integrating tooling into existing tools/applications
- Grafana - Experience creating and managing dashboards, both dynamic and declaratively.
- Datadog
- Splunk
- Pagerduty
- Slack-ops - Integrated alerts with slack to improve issue visibility and runbooks.
- Finops - Using cost metrics to guide architecture decisions.
- Chaos engineering
Incident Response Automation
- Design runbooks + alerting systems
- Post-mortem analysis and improvement
- Incident management and leadership
Reliability & Metrics
SLA/SLI Management
- Define, track, and optimize Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Proficiency in debugging complex issues, identifying patterns, and implementing preventative measures.
- Skills in identifying bottlenecks, scaling systems, and ensuring low-latency, high-throughput operations.
Security & Compliance
Infrastructure Security
- Infrastructure security: IAM, encryption, network segmentation
Compliance & Auditing
- Familiarity with common regulatory standards and tools for audit trails and compliance checks.
- GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, FedRAMP
Collaboration & Communication
Cross-Team Collaboration
Documentation
- Develop documentation alongside code
- Production Readiness Review - Formulated core properties to verify software against to ensure readiness for a production environment.
Knowledge Sharing
Problem-Solving & critical Thinking
- Incident Triage
- Tradeoff analysis
- Innovation
Logging & Tracing
Key Soft Skills
Adaptability
Attention to Detail
Ownership & Accountability
