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Senior Software Engineer, DevOps @ Talent Inc. New York, New YorkTechnologist @ Grassroots Technologies, Inc Worked for primary company client Scholastic Education Technology Group (elsewhere available on this profile). From February 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 8 months) New York, NYDevOps Engineer @ ActionX As a DevOps Engineer, I have performed the following tasks:Managed the company's entire infrastructure footprint, which included - 50+ AWS EC2 servers in 3 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with Route 53 DNS management - AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) and Redshift databases - S3 data storage, with CloudFront CDN - multiple Heroku application instancesDeveloped and implemented a complete application and infrastructure monitoring strategy. This included: - a comprehensive alert system via Slack and text messages to the DevOps team through Datadog and bash scripts - dashboards to monitor application and infrastructure health (Datadog)Planned and implemented a company-wide application deployment strategy. This included: - infrastructure planning for new application deployments - usage of Jenkins CI and AWS S3 to build and store all application artifacts - various bash scripts to automate and version infrastructure changes and deploymentsManaged and performed forward planning on the company's infrastructure budget. This included: - regular monitoring and reporting of AWS, Heroku, and other third-party application costs - frequent analysis and research into infrastructure cost-reducing strategies - setting the company infrastructure budget for the upcoming fiscal yearContinuous forward planning for migration to containerized application instances, via Docker and Kubernetes, as well as configuration management via etcd and Chef.Extensive communication with all company teams to determine infrastructure improvements, and help troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues. From September 2015 to November 2016 (1 year 3 months) New York, New YorkEngineering Customer Service Liason @ Scholastic Education Technology Group Working for Grassroots Tech, Inc. as a consultant for SETG, I performed the following tasks:➢ Troubleshot various field server communication and information synchronization issues with their primary customer management product, via remote sessions with the customer server➢ Troubleshot product access issues for individual customers➢ Troubleshot product licensing issues➢ Worked with Customer Service team to identify improvements necessary for their customer management product. From September 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ Scholastic Education Technology Group Working for Grassroots Tech, Inc. as a consultant for SETG, I performed the following tasks:➢ Handled all necessary code/Maven dependency changes and assisted with deployment of a major library upgrade for their primary customer service product.➢ In process of handling a move of their primary customer management platform from Tomcat to JBoss, including deployment-related changes.➢ Contributed feature improvements to the their primary customer management platform.➢ Investigated and resolved various issues in the QA and Production environments, primarily involving website communication, cron job execution, and basic server performance. From February 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaDevOps Engineer @ Scholastic Education Technology Group Working for Grassroots Tech, Inc. as a consultant for SETG, I performed the following tasks:➢ Assisted with creation and smoke testing of new developer sandbox, acceptance testing, and performance environments for their primary customer management platform.➢ Managed code branches and builds for application patches and Production code deployments.➢ Executed/troubleshot daily code builds to QA.➢ Executed/troubleshot daily code deploys to QA and bi-monthly deploys to Production.➢ Improved custom-built deploy scripts to allow for email notification of deploy start/complete, as well as webapp status codes on deploy completion.➢ Built out new servers, when necessary From February 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaComputer Science Department Coordinator/Teacher @ Bronx High School of Science ➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for an introductory computer science course involving animations and robotics, using Java➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for an Advanced Placement Computer Science course, in Java, and in line with College Board requirements➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for a Game Programming course, using XNA Game Studio 3.1, C#, to teach game design concepts➢ Assisted students on projects in Python, C++, C#, Java, and Visual Basic 2008 From September 2005 to January 2012 (6 years 5 months) Bronx, NY