Jul 2024 – Mar 2025 · 8 mos · Michigan, United States · Remote

Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · 11 mos · Remote · Remote

• Building cutting edge AI system using TTS (Text To Speech) and STT (Speech To Text). Worked on audio chunking, along with ElevenLabs and Microsoft Cognitive Services

Feb 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

• Re-architected key parts of platform to allow for better horizontal scalability
• Introduced better dev practices for more maintainable code
• Designed new architecture to help facilitate growth and traffic into platform
• Worked with architecture council for new design initatives
• Worked with performance and load testing
• Scaled system that could only take 20k TPS to get it to work with 300K TPS
• Created POC and demoed for stakeholders
• Worked with senior management on road maps
• Proposed and evaluated frameworks and libraries to help with enhancing architecture

Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote · Remote

• Work inside computer layer at IBM Cloud (formerly IBM Bluemix)
• I work inside the compute layer, which provisions Virtual Machines inside the control plane
• Work with Resource Metadata Services to provide information about virtual machine living on the user account
• Work with IAM services to get tokens during the collection and monitoring of VMs
• Build and maintain metadata agents including building reverse proxy to work inside highly secure layer inside the compute controller of the cloud
• Perform code reviews with other team members to ensure high quality of code is being delivered for various release cycles

May 2020 – Feb 2021 · 9 mos · New York, New York, United States

• Worked with high volume data transformation pipeline built on AWS. Wrote cloud formation templates to improve architecture. Wrote business logic inside of AWS lambdas to help process data to be moved to bundling engine. Worked in architecting and designing new lambdas to solve scalability problems. Brought in Golang best practices, helped with refactoring efforts, and helped with migrating organization from pre Go 1.11 reps to go.mod. Worked with QA teams to help test code. Proposed new strategies to help increase developer velocity

Aug 2019 – May 2020 · 9 mos · Greater Philadelphia

• Work with Comcast Xfinity Wifi division, the largest public wifi rollout in the country.
• Design, architect and implement solutions for real time updates and configuration management for Xfinity wifi devices.
• Implement solutions in Golang, and performance tune and optimize code to be scalable and track network activities.
• Wrote microservices layer in gRPC and also integrated with Oauth OpenId tools like DeX. Also work with Devops teams to migrate apps from VM to containers.
• Design service to be cloud native. Including maming sure that services are portable between platforms and that they are easy to tie into a CI pipeline.
• Implemented solutions for highly granular and user driven configurations to ensure we are meeting business demands.
• Help mentor team of junior engineers about code quality standards, code reviews, and best practice

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019 · 7 mos · Remote

• Work on Payment application for blockchain application.
• Configured, architected and design architecture is architecture for enterprise environment. Including setting up auto scaling groups in AWS, setting of master and worker nodes, and managing other pieces of the control plane
• Made sure that cluster was up to latest security standards. Including pod to pod policy enforcement with cilium. Install cert manager controller in kubernetes cluster. And making sure endpoints were secure.
• Worked with Fabric hyperledger blockchain including setting up channels, running system chain code, marrying and automating this with our CI process and integrating this with Kafka. Also did some aspects of smart contract development with Chaincode and Golang.
• Wrote tools to automate kubernetes architecture in Golang by utilizing kubernetes Golang client. This included automating data migrations for persistent stores and other key aspects of cluster management.
• Built kubernetes operators to better automate persistent workloads in kubernetes. Including building custom schema and controllers for Fabric-CA. Automating setup for HSMs with Hyperledger Fabric CA.

Nov 2018 – Jul 2019 · 8 mos · Sunnyvale, California

• working with infrastructure development dealing with container, automation, and onboarding using the Go programming language

Apr 2018 – Jul 2018 · 3 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Creating backend API for IoT devices. Using gRPC, Postgres, protobuffers, swagger, and Oauth

Apr 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Philadelphia Area

• worked in the automation and building of tools for support team. This included proposing, adapting, and and demoing new technologies. Majority of my development was done in Python using Flask, PyMongo, pycassa, and other frameworks. Also leverage AWS application stack which included SNS, SQS, and SWF for near real time systems.
• Also planned and developed ETL to move data from Cassandra to elasticsearch to make our data more searchable for the larger org.
• Also worked with Couchbase which was the caching layer for our web services, in addition to MongoDB as a means to store data for various small apps and tools I developed.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• DevOps, automation, and development for cutting edge cloud platform.
• Write Puppet code for the automation of various aspects of our cloud platform. Also write scripts in Powershell and Bash to help with provisioning process. Also write cloud formation templates to stand up new stacks in our development environment.
• Work heavily with AWS EC2, CloudFormation, AWS EFS, and will soon be working with Azure.

Aug 2013 – Mar 2014 · 7 mos · San Jose, California

• Worked in a multi layered ad serving environment. Was the first on support team, and had to find best support practices for a growing yet fast paced environment. Supported the entire business side of iAd, and served as a liaison between development and business. Reversed engineered many components of the system to better find points where automation could be beneficial. Built out scripts for monitoring, to better help the scalability of the volume the Application was receiving. Served as a mentor to tier 1 groups and offshore, to be help them address production issues. Updated knowledge base, and created/simplified playbooks to be used by offshore support.
• Had to understand various technology such as metric and analytical and why reporting may have been incorrect. Used Oracle to work with Application data to capture different states of campaigns. Had to understand complex workflow to find breakage points of application. Worked with development to make sure logging was sufficient. Created and configured tools to ensure the speed of the response time of offshore. Wrote various scripts in Python to simplify redundant task. Worked with development to find root cause of production issues. Instilled best practices and devops principles in role

Jun 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Currently working with Web Service hub interface which facilitate Web services calls across entire enterprise. Do deployments to various clusters and v-tiers in environment. Work with backend support and development teams to resolve issues related to application.
• Set up configurations in Nagios and Wily Introscope. Work with tier one teams and network teams during infrastructural maintenance Responsible for checking in configuration values into SVN..