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Skills

java	kubernetes	postgresql	aws / azure / gcp	developer experience
rust	helm / kustomize / timoni	cassandra	terraform / crossplane / kops	incident management
python	docker / containerd	dynamodb	circleci / github actions / tekton	site reliability

Created and led interim release management team until processes improved sufficiently to disband it.
Rebuilt ci/cd, processes, and service and cloud architectures to attain FedRamp Moderate certification
Led adoption of modern kubernetes and aws tooling, including: helm, crossplane, terraform, and gitops.
Wrote and implemented a trunk-based, feature-flagged, decentralized release process.
Reduced logging, monitoring, and alerting costs by 80% by excising and replacing DataDog
Increased deployment velocity by 630% over two years
Overhauled our on-premise deployment to improve replicability and reduce support hours
Evaluated technologies for adoption, migration, and removal
Mentored junior and senior engineers

Built developer-managed ephemeral environment CI/CD platform, allowing each developer to work on their own, versioned copy of the business platform
Architected, PoC’ed, and built the following subsystems in the SAAS platform using Java, Spring, Jooby, Rust, Rocket, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Druid, and Kubernetes:
- authn/authz
- notifications
- actions
- s2s
- user administration
- data ingest
- analytics ingest and aggregation
- monitoring and alerting

SME for Kubernetes, Kops, EKS, Helm, CircleCI, and Java
Respond to, diagnose, and correct production outages
Optimize Kubernetes environment and tooling, enabling 20x scale up over 3 weeks in response to COVID-19
Aggressively target a complete “Infrastructure as Code” implementation of our AWS and Kubernetes environments
Lead application of best practices around AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to acquisitions’ cloud resources
Implemented least-privilege best practices for Kubernetes services’ access to AWS resources
Overhauled CI/CD, resulting in a 212% increase in deployment velocity company-wide after 18 months
Centralized Helm and Cloudformation templates into importable libraries accessed and applied via CI/CD
Implemented automated error rate anomaly detection and rollback in production service deployments
Created dual monitoring and alerting pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, and OpsGenie

Developed a Helm- and Terraform-based Kubernetes bootstrapping and deployment tool for creating and maintaining a versioned infrastructure and service mesh with seamless rollback capability.
Implemented oauth-based authn/authz infrastructure
Developed, containerized, and deployed Java microservices.
Converted stateful cron jobs to stateless REST services.

Optimized chemical vapor deposition growth and polymer transfer techniques for graphene and other 2D materials.
Designed and constructed Hall Effect and quantum Hall Effect devices and transistors from various 2D materials.
Created lithography process for etching trace circuits into CVD graphene.

Designed and constructed prototype 300 milliKelvin refrigerator for the Cosmic Large Angular Scale Surveyor project.
Automated crystal growth process, removing the need for 24/7 human maintenance during salt pill formation.
Integrated a technique used to spin up MRI machines to reduce the amount of high Ct superconducting wire required.
Reduced the projected cost of the system by ~$8000 per unit.