Experience

• Roadmapped North Star strategy and defined metrics to reduce service downtime across organization
• Evangelized SRE and OpenTelemetry across the company through documentation, reproducible PoCs, and demos
• Led working group to define best practices, enhance DevEx, deduplicate efforts, and prevent technical debt
• Revolutionized company's APM onboarding and configuration with Terraform
• Created Terraform code generation tool to accelerate ticket handling and offer self-service

• Promoted structured logging by creating NodeJS Winston logger wrapper to enable rapid troubleshooting and analytics (also included sensitive data redaction and safe error logging)
• Partnered with IaC org to create and improve the company's Terraform modules for compliance and faster development
• Pushed back on prescribed Terraform Cloud/Enterprise practices by proving VCS approach inadequate for app builds and instead promoting CLI/API, preventing technical debt for many teams
• Built better engineers by mentoring and delegating meaningful tasks to junior engineers

• Replaced vendor solution with custom built I18N app that generated string translations for release artifacts during CICD pipeline
• Identified and reduced AWS S3 and EBS spendings by 530% and 65%, respectively, through the AWS CLI and by applying lifecycle policies
• Eliminated hours of toil and human error by writing artifact downloader script and AWS cred rotation script

• Designed and built batch job runner that dynamically pulls job arguments from API to eliminate change ticket process
• Jump-started developer productivity by creating scripts that installed fresh developer environments accessible over x11vnc
• Built "relationship discovery" tool to discover undocumented database fields for customer data purge project
• Decommissioned acquired software product by syncing data to NAS with rsync

• Solved data governance problem of 25pB unknown disk usage across the company's servers by using big data technique
• Wrote ETL script to move 5 billion 'server crawl' records from CSV files into Hadoop to fuel data governance dashboard

• Created REST API in Java to CRUD MongoDB and shared practices with other interns
• Designed and collaborated with peers on technical solution for interns Summer project

Technologies and Languages

• Languages: Node.js , Bash , Python
• Technologies: Terraform , OpenTelemetry , Linux , Git , AWS , Jenkins , GitHub Actions , Docker , K8s (Kubernetes) , NGINX , Ansible , SQL , NoSQL

Education and Certifications

• B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Business Information Systems, Eastern Connecticut State University, GPA: 3.96
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate, June 2020 — June 2023

Projects

• Work: APM IaC pattern, Observability Hub, GitHub data collector, SLO Terraform module (wrapper), Winston wrapper for OTel structured logging, tech portfolio syncer, ETL feeding mainframe change dashboard, enterprise job runner, DB relationship discovery, translation utility (I18N)
• Personal: SreZone.com blog, NCLDeals.com + low-price notifier, homepage link organizer, bookmark queue, scheduled push notifications, this resume (HTML), Big Y coupon adder, song instrumental extractor, website scraper with price notifier, HTML soundboard, Twitter scheduled auto-tweeter, home surveillance system, IRC Snapchat, CT judicial analysis