Senior DevOps / PHP Engineer
DevOps Engineer who also does backend development and has a strong focus towards management and leadership.
Primary Language: PHP, Python, Ruby
Operation Systems: Worked with Legacy RHEL5/CentOS while porting most of the infrastructure to AWS/Ubuntu base.
Caching: Varnish, Memcached,
Web Servers: Apache, Nginx
Secondary Skills : Python, Ruby, CSS/HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Selenium Webdriver, C++
DevOps Tools: Nagios/check_mk, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Vagrant, Virtual Box/VMWare, Parallels, Boundary, New Relic, AWS, S3, Fig, Wireshark, Capistrano
Senior DevOps / PHP Engineer @ DevOps Engineer / PHP Engineer
Worked closely with the Senior Systems Administrator, Backend Engineering Team and QA.
- Worked with Debian and Redhat operating systems
- Worked with Amazon Web Services
- Worked with MongoDB, Redis, Solr, Zookeeper
- Shell/Bash Scripting
- PHP scripting and development using Zend Framework.
- Server management and package installation (Composer, Yum, Macports, apt-get)
- Set up Nagios for server monitoring
- Jenkins Administrator
- Set up Jenkins for Continuous Integration with Github repositories as well as PHPUnit Tests, Scripts, Services and Automated Functional Tests
- Created Selenium Webdriver tests in Java (eventually re-written in Python) to mimic users on website navigation, forms and internal Content Management System. Ported a local version of AFTs to Saucelabs to run tests in spun up virtual environments cross-browser and cross-platform (version and OS)
- Implemented changes in codebase to add or enhance site functionality in PHP and very light JavaScript
- Acted as the main technological point of contact during a Content Delivery Network Request for Proposal
- Acted as technical liaison with a third party vendor implementing iPhone application development changes and modifications
- Set up AWStats to monitor web access logs
- Acted as "disaster recovery" during site, server or database outages
- Maintained Composer installations and dependencies across all servers
- Implemented centralized logging with Graylog2 + Redis + Elasticsearch + logstash across mongo, apache, nginx, haproxy logs
- Worked with the Senior Systems Administrator to puppetize and maintain multiple server configurations and services in AWS.
- Advised QA Automation Engineers with AFT development in Python 2
- moved company to Docker based apps with team
- Assisted the Senior Systems Administrator with weekly Engineering meetings. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months)
B.S, Computer Science @ Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus From 2007 to 2011 Marlboro Central High School From 2007 to 2011 Zachary Kisling is skilled in: Apache, PHP, Github, CSS, MongoDB, Test Automation, WebDriver, Shell Scripting, LAMP, Web Development, JSON, Git, Selenium, Nagios, Zend Framework
Websites:
http://www.businessinsider.com