CloudOps Engineer

Cloudsaver

Nov 2022

* Maintained, tuned, monitored, and continuously improved a large production scalable Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS Fargate daily
* Ensured high availability and performance of our suite of applications through Helm, Kafka, OpenSearch, AWS Lambda, MySQL, and Redis
* Created CI/CD automated pipelines to build and deploy code in all environments to our Kubernetes clusters
* Implemented all tasks via IaC wherever possible
* Responsibly tracked and granted access to the developers and ops team using least privilege
* Solved complex troubleshooting issues within our environments
* Maintained SOC 2 compliance

Cloud Engineer

Cloudsaver

Sep 2021

* Worked directly with clients' management teams offering infrastructure advice to reduce cloud spend across various AWS and Azure Cloud services
* Wrote an AWS Automation task able to shrink EBS volumes via Bash
* Learned granular financial and technical details of most AWS services
* Developed custom Python and Bash scripts for automating internal tasks

Enterprise System Engineer

KU Medical Center

Aug 2019

* Containerized PHI-compliant applications (REDCap/I2B2)
* Worked with healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, staff) to enhance their user experience via custom Bash and Python scripts including a report of our COVID-19 hospital capacity report generated daily and sent out to various other hospitals
* Provisioned through automation (Ansible/Docker) new services and proof of concepts
* Solved system related Linux, database, and ETL related issues day to day

System Engineer

Cerner

Jun 2018

* Deployed, maintained, and supported multiple suites of cloud-based enterprise healthcare applications
* Utilized DevOps practices such as IaC CI/CD
* Adhered to PHI and DoD security compliance
* Demonstrated networking, Linux, database and front end troubleshooting skills in multiple environments

Skills

K8s - Helm, Keda, ADOT, EKS on and off Fargate
IaC - CloudFormation, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOps
AWS - ECS, EMR, S3, EC2, Lambda, SSM, EventBridge, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, CloudFront, ElastiCache, MSK
Languages - Bash, Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
Monitoring - AKHQ, Dynatrace, Jaeger, New Relic, Vanta, Splunk, Zabbix
Data - Kafka, Redis, Oracle Database, MySQL
Authentication - InCommon, OAuth, Okta
Cloud - Google Cloud Platform, Azure Cloud
Linux - Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux
Other - Excel

Education

University of Missouri

2014-2018

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology | Minor in Computer Science