Russell Harrison

DevSecOps Architect, Take2IT contract for Veterans Affairs

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

About

Specialties: Linux, Open Source, System Administration, Automation

Experience

  • DevSecOps Architect at Take2 Consulting, LLC
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

    • Gold support for ARANZ Wound Management. • Cloud support for Gold support customers. Azure and AWS • Linux support for multiple teams. • Support of TeleHealth offerings for veterans

  • Photographer / Owner at Russell Harrison Photography
    Aug 2010 - Present · 15 yrs 11 mos

  • Puppet Engineer at PwC
    Dec 2022 - Apr 2023 · 5 mos

    • Responsible for deployment of Puppet automation code to 12k+ nodes. • Coordination and review of development Puppet activities. • Last line of support for Linux issues company wide.

  • Director of DevOps / DevOps Lead at Sift Media
    May 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

    We sift through 50 billion mobile ad requests daily, leveraging advanced AI & machine learning algorithms to hyper-target app install ads for our clients. To date, Sift Media has served 200 billion mobile ads and delivered 75 million app installs for thousands of advertisers. Backed by $3.25 million in venture capital from investors including Wakefield Group, Piedmont Capital, Alerion Ventures, and IDEA Fund Partners, Sift Media ranked #61 on Deloitte's 2020 Technology Fast 500 and #175 on the 2020 Inc. 5000. • Responsible for infrastructure handling over 50 billion mobile ad requests daily • Manage AWS infrastructure and cost management on a constant basis • Utilize Puppet, CloudFormation, and Ansible for configuration management within AWS cloud environment • Migration of CI/CD environment to clustered solution.

  • Director of DevOps / DevOps Lead at PatientPay, Inc.
    Jan 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    • Leading team of 4 DevOps Engineers supporting IT, Operations, and Engineering • Utilize Puppet and Ansible for configuration management within AWS cloud environment • Built out entire infrastructure including Puppet, Ansible, AWS, G-Suite, and Elastic stack • Worked on migration to Kubernetes • Implemented RHEL EC2 instance architecture • Implemented Jenkins architecture for CI/CD • PCI-DSS and HIPAA standards compliance