Tom Krug

DevSecOps Lead at Northrop Grumman, Space Systems

Stafford, Virginia, United States

About

I am a senior web developer with 6+ years of experience in responsive web design, web application development, DevOps, and full-stack development. I have experience as a leader and mentor others in using agile software development values and principles. This includes using collaboration tools, agile and iterative development, version control (Git, Github, Bitbucket, GitLab), issue tracking, and workflow management tools (JIRA, Kanban boards, SCRUM). I have 6+ years of experience and knowledge of: • PHP (Laravel, Symfony) • Object-Oriented Programming, Test-Driven Development, SOLID Design Principles • Responsive Design (Sass / SCSS / CSS) • User Experience (UX) Design • JavaScript (ECMAScript 2015+, VueJs, React) • AWS / Digital Ocean / Apache / Nginx • Web Application Development / Mobile Application Development

Experience

  • Northrop Grumman (Full-time · 4 yrs 7 mos)
    • DevSecOps Lead
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Department Manager, Eastern Core Ground Software
      Nov 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Senior Principal Cyber Software Test Engineer
      Dec 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr

  • Senior Systems Engineer, Chief Scrum Master at Ascension Engineering Group, LLC.
    Mar 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Chief Technology Officer at Simple Software LLC
    Jun 2014 - Dec 2021 · 7 yrs 7 mos

    - Full Stack Developer that maintains open-source packages that have more than 1 million installations. - Designs and implements large scale software packages that run in the cloud on top of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) platform. - Knowledge of scaling software to run on multiple instances of servers spread across the world to minimize downtime, and increase performance. - Utilizes Apache, MySQL, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, VueJS, Laravel, and other web technologies. - Actively involved in the software and database development community.

  • Angel Publishing (Baltimore, Maryland Area)
    • Project Manager
      Feb 2020 - Mar 2020 · 2 mos

    • Senior Web Developer
      Jul 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Builds and maintains a Customer Relations Management (CRM) suite tailored for digital publishers. - Designed and implemented Agile development patterns to simplify the release cycles. - Implements industry-standard practices that reduce complexities and time-to-release.

  • Sr. Satellite Network Controller at US Army
    Jun 2011 - Oct 2018 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    - Provided customer support and troubleshooting to thousands of customers worldwide for the Department of Defense in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Spread Spectrum Multiple Access (SSMA) networks utilizing X, Ka, Ku, S, and C band frequencies. - Regularly supervised a team of 8-13 people to ensure high-quality satellite communication links for the President, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense, International Partners, and various strategic earth, naval, and ground forces. - Extensively use Bit-Error rate testing devices, signal generators, multimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, Fireberds, power meters, and power generators during the day-to-day operations and troubleshooting. - Certified in the Transmission Controller, WGS Payload Controller, DSCS Payload Controller, Anscillary Controller, Counter-transmissions Controller, and Eagle Sentry positions. - Monitored and maintained three Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) satellites and five Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellites valued at over $1 Billion.