I am an engineer with a long history of developing and supporting business critical systems. Throughout my career, I have ensure agility and elasticity:
• Architected and engineered physical and cloud-based infrastructures.
• Built monitoring, software deployment and configuration management platforms based on open-source-based solutions.
• Devised operational management, disaster recovery and security processes while relating them to key business goals.
• Developed software automation tools for day to day provisioning and management of physical and virtual servers.
• Assembled and lead teams of highly skilled and motivated professionals.
• Provided engineering support for key virtualization, operation system and application services components.
To summarize my expertise:
• I have strong fluency in various development and scripting languages. My primary languages are Ruby and Bash, though I have written code in Python, Perl and PHP. I also have basic working knowledge of Java, TCL, C and Javascript.
• I have written code in automation tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible, examples of which are stored in my Github account.
• I worked with deployment and infrastructure tools, both on-premise and cloud-based, from Spacewalk to CloudFormation.
• I have significant background in hardware troubleshooting, including repair and replacement of servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices.
• I am experienced in operational design, monitoring, security, datacenter management, public and private cloud services and IT business processes.
I generally look for the following when an opportunity come across my sight:
• Collaboration towards a common business goal.
• Rigorousness in providing valued-added solutions.
• Rapid velocity in service delivery.
• Appreciation for critical-thinking and analytic skills.
DevOps Engineer @ I work with the product and technology teams to help refine, organize and automate ConnectedHealth's cloud infrastructure, deploy applications from development to production as well guide and manage the growth of ConnectedHealth's internal IT infrastructure.
Accomplishments include:
• Deployed ELK stack into production using Chef and Docker.
• Refactored Chef deployment using community cookbook patterns.
• Rebuilt Rundeck task orchestration server to the current release.
• Stabilizing HQ's network infrastructure.
• Architect and deployed an API gateway in front of our micro-services.
• Enhanced user experienced by developing web caching services.
• Aligned AWS infrastructure towards best practices.
Daily Activities
• Deploying rails-based applications through Rundeck across the development pipeline into production.
• Monitoring internal and external infrastructure with Nagios, Cacti, New Relic and ServerDensity.
• Analyzing system and application data with Loggly.
• Provisioning secured-images with Chef-based post-configuration scripts.
• Performance testing of applications to ensure scalability. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Cloud Management and Orchestration Consultant @ From December 2014 to June 2015 (7 months) Greater Chicago AreaCloud Systems Engineer @ From October 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 2 months) Greater Chicago AreaSystems Engineer @ From April 2013 to October 2013 (7 months) Greater Chicago AreaSystems Engineer (Contractor) @ From April 2013 to October 2013 (7 months) Greater Chicago AreaLead Systems Engineer @ From February 2012 to April 2013 (1 year 3 months) Systems Engineer (Contractor) @ From February 2012 to May 2012 (4 months) Senior Systems Administrator, Hosting and Application Services @ From July 2011 to February 2012 (8 months) Systems Administrator, Global Network Operations @ From November 2008 to July 2011 (2 years 9 months) Systems Administrator 2, IT Operations @ From April 2001 to November 2008 (7 years 8 months) Dedicated Technical Support @ From April 2000 to April 2001 (1 year 1 month) Greater Los Angeles AreaTechnical Support @ From August 1999 to April 2000 (9 months) Customer Care Representative @ From July 1996 to August 1999 (3 years 2 months)
Bachelor of Science (BS) @ Western Governors University From 2013 to 2015 Los Angeles City College From 1993 to 1996 Diploma @ John Marshall High School From 1990 to 1993