Summary

Experienced Software Engineer with a background in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and full-stack development. Strong expertise in Java, Python, and automation. Passionate about scalable infrastructure and reliability engineering in cloud environments.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat (9/2021 - Present)

• Application development in Java, Python using tools such as Spring, Flask, Django, React, Typescript, MySQL.
• Led migration to modern Kubernetes (Red Hat Openshift) environments.
• Migrated CI/CD from Jenkins based to Gitlab.
• Extensive collaboration with business stakeholders reviewing and refining application requirements.
• Act as SME for many of the team's applications.

Site Reliability Engineer
Verily Life Sciences (Alphabet) (3/2021 - 9/2021)

• Large project to research, design, and implement vertical monitoring, metrics, and synthetics up and down the application stack to gain better visibility into application performance to eventually gain the ability to react proactively before outages occurred or react to them before business customers made us aware of an issue.
• Introduced the team to concepts such as Kubernetes operators - certificate issuing operator.
• Architecting single tenancy on AWS VPCs to win contracts for large clients.
• Migration from self-hosted MongoDB to a managed MongoDB Atlas infrastructure.

Software Engineer
Red Hat (11/2017 - 3/2021)

• Java application development - including migration to containerized Kubernetes environment.
• Helped develop and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for a "plug and play" application template for use by all applications developed by the team.
• Migration of applications to Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes operated as a hybrid cloud environment.
• Monitoring of applications using tools such as New Relic and Splunk.
• Refactoring existing Java applications to support containerized environments.
• Implemented a sidecar proxy solution to allow the deprecated but still production customer software update infrastructure (RHN) to communicate with newer secure micro services in order to comply with business Enterprise Security Standards.
• Production support with an emphasis on fast and effective troubleshooting.

Founder
Crostini (12/2014 - 8/2021)

• Engineered and developed Crostini - a tool that allows K-12 teachers to monitor student activity on Google Chromebooks to ensure the students remain on task.
• Application developed using AngularJS, Javascript, Python and the Django web framework.
• Designed and developed an automatic scaling mechanism to scale application servers up and down as load demands. Cloud machines spin up and spin down in an automated fashion to handle load while saving costs during off-peak hours.

Software Engineer
Trident Management (3/2017 - 11/2017)

• Review and implement business requirements for internal software applications using tooling such as Python, Flask, AngularJS (1.x), MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Work with stakeholders to refine requirements and ensure business value was delivered.
• Experience working with offshore development and QA teams.

DevOps Engineer Netsertive (5/2016 - 3/2017)

• Automation and management of application builds and production systems running on Amazon AWS.
• Automated creation of lower dev environments using technologies such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Extensive experience monitoring of applications using tools such as Zabbix and Nagios.
• Led the introduction of Kubernetes to the environment.
• Production support for all applications where I investigated logs and referenced source code to diagnose production issues.

Network Engineer Moore County Schools (11/2008 - 5/2016)

• Design, management and support of all network and server equipment over 24 separate campuses.
• Server virtualization utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware.
• Numerous systems and processes automated with Power Shell, Python and other automation tools.

Education

Western Governors University
Bachelor's Degree- Information Technology - Security Concentration

Sandhills Community College
Associate's Degree - General Education