Andrew Goktepe's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Software Consultant @ BT Global Services Developed C code for the Aphelion LDAP server. Fixed bugs, often by debugging customer-provided core dumps with gdb and dbx. Wrote Perl installation/configuration scripts. Developed a WebSphere EJB application for a voice system used by a medical insurance company. From June 2003 to December 2004 (1 year 7 months) Manager, Site Reliability Engineering @ LinkedIn From December 2016 to June 2019 (2 years 7 months) San FranciscoSr. Manager, Nook Cloud Systems @ Barnes & Noble Hired and managed a team which deployed and supported API infrastructure for the NOOK Color, Simple Touch, Tablet, and Simple Touch with Glowlight product launches and over-the-air updates. Owned build-out of Linux-based virtualized server environments for Dev, QA, Performance, and Production. Java debugging and tuning. Launched OpenStack Swift in production for object storage. Promoted to Director, Nook Cloud Systems in July 2012 prior to joining EvntLive. From April 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 4 months) Palo Alto, CAServices Delivery Lead @ Barnes & Noble From March 2010 to April 2011 (1 year 2 months) Build/Release Engineer @ Palm Responsible for the Palm webOS Cloud Services build, release, and deployment processes. Developed software (Python) to build OTA software updates for Palm Pre and Pixi smartphones, including compression enhancements that reduced the size of update artifacts by 90%. Provided repeatable, rock-solid builds using Jenkins, Maven and Ant. From July 2008 to March 2010 (1 year 9 months) Senior Build/Release Engineer @ Oracle Started the build team in the Retail Business Unit. Grew it from 1 to 12 people across 5 office locations. Designed and built the software build system, both backend and frontend, and scaled it from inception to support multiple release lines of over 10 licensed. Wrote product installers for the Oracle Retail J2EE applications and database schemas. Presented at Oracle conferences in Kuala Lumpur and Minneapolis. Traveled to customer sites and resolved installation/configuration and application integration issues. From December 2004 to July 2008 (3 years 8 months) Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering @ LinkedIn Head of Media SRE team. We launched the infrastructure powering LinkedIn Video (VOD, Live, Stories) and build and operate platforms for image and document processing, storage, and serving. San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering @ Savant Systems Built an SRE/DevOps team for Savant Cloud, a new IoT backend supporting existing Savant Home Automation products as well as a new DIY consumer product line. Built out and operated all customer-facing infrastructure including device APIs and the savant.com website. Most infrastructure in AWS, managed with Chef. Some infra in Google Cloud and Digital Ocean as well. Hosted internal tools in AWS including JIRA, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Bitbucket/Stash. Build and release for all software platforms including server applications (Java, Node.JS, Go), embedded Linux on ARM, iOS & Android apps, and Mac OS X native apps. Instrumental in the security efforts for Savant products and cloud environments including pen testing and incident response planning. From June 2014 to December 2016 (2 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. Manager, Service Engineering Operations @ Yahoo Yahoo acquired EvntLive in December 2013. Launched the first service in production at Yahoo to leverage both OpenStack and Chef. Built and managed a Splunk cluster using Chef and bare metal servers. Involved in early planning for Yahoo Live: live concert video streaming on Yahoo Screen in partnership with Live Nation.Developed new release process for the web-based Yahoo Flash and HTML5 video players. From December 2013 to June 2014 (7 months) Sunnyvale, CADirector, Infrastructure Engineering & Operations @ EVNTLIVE Hired to build new SRE/DevOps team and build and operate a hybrid cloud environment supporting live and on-demand video streaming and a mobile backend in AWS. Supported all servers, networking, security, storage, and DBA for both public-facing endpoints and internal-facing IT systems. Backup and DR planning and execution. Supported onsite video encoder technology at concert venues during live streams. Managed all IT vendor relationships. EvntLive was acquired by Yahoo in Dec 2013. From August 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay Area