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Skills

rust	postgresql	kubernetes	aws / azure / gcp	developer experience
java	redis / valkey	eks / kops / aks / gke	terraform / crossplane	incident management
python	dynamodb	helm / kustomize / flux	opentelemetry	platform engineering
bash	cassandra	docker / containerd	circleci / github actions / jenkins	site reliability

Created and led interim release management team until processes improved sufficiently to disband it
Attained FedRamp Moderate certification by rebuilding ci/cd, processes, and service and cloud architectures
Reduced logging, monitoring, and alerting costs by 80% by excising and replacing DataDog with fluent, prometheus, opensearch, jaeger, and grafana
Increased deployment velocity by 630% over two years by increasing developer confidence in CI and testing
Successfully executed multiple domain migrations and a surrender with no downtime
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
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

Optimized Kubernetes environment and tooling, enabling 20x scale up over 3 weeks in response to COVID-19
Increased deployment velocity by 212% by condensing 41 custom jenkins deployment scripts into a set of composable CircleCI jobs and reducing the deployment error rate from 61% to 3% (as measured after 8 months)
Aggressively targeted a complete Infrastructure as Code implementation of our AWS and Kubernetes environments using terraform and helm
Led application of best practices around AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to acquisitions’ cloud resources
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
Reduced time to detection and time to resolution of incidents by implementing metric and log monitors with Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, 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 event-stream 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 electron beam 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.