Work Experience

ESnet — Computer Systems Engineer

January 2020 - Present

  • Deploy and maintain Unix based systems including Ubuntu, RHEL, and Debian using Infrastructure as code tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Packer.
  • Manage and create software development environments using GitLab, GitLab CI, GitHub, and artifact repositories.
  • Configure, deploy, and productize container based applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud native tooling like ArgoCD and Rancher.
  • Integrate applications and services with OIDC providers including Keycloak.
  • Implement and support custom features and applications using Python and Go.

Veterans United Home Loans — Technical Architect

June 2019 - December 2019

  • Aid development teams in all aspects of software development, from project design to implementation.
  • projects by collaborating with product owners.
  • Collaborate with product owners and software development teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
  • Advance department goals of increased developer productivity by adopting new tools such as API Gateway, Service Orchestrators, and Business Process Model and Notation engine.
  • Create proof of concept applications to prove design and tool viability.

Veterans United Home Loans — Web Application Developer

August 2015 - June 2019

  • Developed backend and customer facing software using the .NET platform, C#, JavaScript, and PHP.
  • Aided product delivery goals via close collaboration with product owners.
  • Used pair programming to implement features, from whiteboard to keyboard.
  • Fostered team growth by mentoring new team members.
  • Utilized Agile techniques to encapsulate new and existing work.

Veterans United Home Loans — Web Administrator

November 2014 - August 2015

  • Used F5 Big-IP devices to provide fault tolerant access to internal and external web applications. * Contributed to automation efforts using Ansible and PowerShell. * Moved veteransunited.com web servers from Rackspace to internal hosting, including the configuration of a highly available storage backend using Gluster.
  • Supported CI/CD efforts using Capistrano and Jenkins.

University of Missouri — Linux Systems Administrator

August 2009 - November 2014

  • Reduced bespoke system build procedures to standardized configurations using Puppet and Foreman.
  • Constructed highly available network and storage configurations for mission critical systems using multipath storage devices and network teaming.
  • Automated system and storage usage reports by implementing a Python based auditing service and API.
  • Installed and configured physical hardware across the University of Missouri’s data centers.

Education

University of Missouri - Columbia — Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

August 2005 - December 2011