Lexington, KY area with preference for remote work.
[email protected] | https://deadlysyn.com
Seeking a role as a Senior or Staff Engineer where I can apply 30 years of experience building and scaling mission critical infrastructure and cloud native services to accelerate innovation and deliver value for the business.
I believe DevOps culture and SRE principles enable rallying around shared outcomes; increasing productivity while simultaneously improving quality of life. I am well-versed in Agile, Lean Product, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code.
Humble, collaborative, and continuously learning; I am pragmatic in my work style and technology choices. Having worked fully remote for over a decade, I am highly effective at asynchronous collaboration.
April 2022-December 2023 | Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | Lattice (https://lattice.com)
- Templatized infrastructure deployment (8x decrease in "time to new service")
- Deployed ArgoCD to orchestrate complex web of monolith and microservice dependencies
- Scaled global Kubernetes footprint in complex regulatory environment
January 2020-March 2022 | Sr. DevOps Engineer | Sonatype (https://sonatype.com)
- Automated employee onboarding (reduced hours of manual work to minutes)
- Built API allowing teams to self-manage AWS access (eliminated ticket wait time)
- Scaled and secured core infrastructure services and developer tooling
- Developed SRE curriculum for internal and customer training
- Kept Fortune 100 digital transformation objectives on-track and on-budget
- Automated PaaS and cloud native application deployment to AWS, GCP, Azure and vSphere
- 2007-2017 | Infrastructure Architect | Cisco, Security Technology Business Unit (https://cisco.com)
- 2006-2007 | Sr. Infrastructure Engineer | IronPort (Acquired)
- 2004-2006 | Sr. Infrastructure Engineer | E2open (https://e2open.com)
- 2000-2004 | Technical Operations Manager | Televoke (Acquired)
- 1999-2000 | UNIX Systems Engineer | QWEST (https://centurylink.com)
- 1997-1999 | UNIX and Network Administrator | SEI Data (https://seidata.com)
- Disciplines: Lean, Agile, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering
- Languages: Bash/Shell, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Go
- Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, vSphere
- Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry
- Infrastructure as Code: CFEngine, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Kustomize, Helm
- Observability: Nagios, Sensu, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, PagerDuty
- CI/CD: Concourse, Drone, CircleCI, FluxCD, Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Data: MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache
- HashiCorp Vault Operations Professional (2023)
- HashiCorp Vault Associate (2022)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate (2021)
- Go Programming Language Comprehensive Course (2021)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2020)
- AWS DevOps Engineer (2020)
- Building Web Services in Go (2019)
- Complete Node.js Developer Course (2019)
- Advanced Full-Stack Web Development (2019)