New York City Metropolitan Area
· Created and lead the DevOps Team that is responsible for improving and maintaining Knewton’s continuous integration tools/services, leading to increased deployment frequency and reliability · Developed and implemented a cyclical process for identifying and automating manual, repetitive tasks within Infrastructure, effectively reducing time spent on reactive maintenance and break-fix from 75% to 30% of total available engineer time · Improved employee engagement, increased team collaboration, and reduced employee “ramp up” time by developing inter-team mentorship programs and career education paths that focused on internal growth, resulting in multiple employees successfully transitioning to more advanced roles within the organization
· Optimized data storage and management in a multi-account, petabyte scale AWS S3 environment, reducing overall yearly spend by 60% while allowing for service level cost analytics and granular access permissioning · Developed and maintained a LDAP/Vault based service that centralized Knewton’s AAA architecture for AWS, SSH, and various internal systems, increasing company wide security and overall ease-of-use · Deployed, maintained, and increased the reliability of multiple Infrastructure hosted services including OpenVPN, 389DS (LDAP), JIRA, Confluence, Gerrit, Consul, Vault, Sensu, Splunk, and Jenkins
Develop and implement customized technology solutions for firms within the New York metropolitan area. See "Projects" for selected experience.
Developed highly scalable software under DARPA grant for the U.S. Air Force to assess and optimize the overall coverage and cost efficiency of an organization’s security architecture.