Customer Success Engineer @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Infrastructure Architect @ • Led a team of Infrastructure Engineers
• Designed and created a Ruby-based deployment orchestration system using Docker, Consul, CoreOS, and GitHub
• Migrated all systems into Amazon Virtual Private Cloud with zero downtime
• Used Chef, Nginx, Consul, and Route 53 to create a scalable load balancer topology that is dynamically configured based on where services are running (EC2, Heroku, S3, etc)
• Designed and implemented a user events logging and analysis system utilizing FluentD, RabbitMQ, S3, and Hadoop
• Identified and removed single points of failure in existing infrastructure From November 2012 to August 2015 (2 years 10 months) Backend Engineer @ • Used Chef to automate the deployment of servers, software, and code
• Created a scalable Python and AMQP based notification system using Apple’s APNS, Android’s C2DM, and SMS
• Moved services to a hybrid of physical machines and cloud servers to get the cost and performance benefits of physical servers with the scaling benefits of the cloud
• Set up monitoring systems using a combination of nagios, graphite, and collectd From May 2011 to November 2012 (1 year 7 months) System Administrator @ • Worked on a system/network operations team that maintained 15 datacenters worldwide that processed over 30 billion DNS queries per day
• Configured and Administered Cisco and Juniper Routers and Switches in a BGP Anycasted network
• Configured and Administered a large network of Linux servers for both customer-facing and internal services From June 2009 to May 2011 (2 years) Lab Engineer @ • Worked on an automation and deployment code-base, specifically integration with VMware vCenter, Lantronix Console Servers, APC Power Distribution Systems, and Kickstart
• Planned and carried out the move of two datacenters with minimal customer-facing downtime From October 2007 to June 2009 (1 year 9 months)
BS, Network Technologies (Security Concentration) @ DePaul University From 2003 to 2007 Kevin Reedy is skilled in: Apache, Nagios, MySQL, Python, Git, VMware, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Android, Load Balancing, PHP, TCP/IP, Chef, Nginx, Windows 3.1
Websites:
http://kevinreedy.net,
https://github.com/kevinreedy/,
https://twitter.com/kevinreedy