Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Lead on Pepr -- https://github.com/defenseunicorns/pepr
• Lead on Kubernetes Fluent Client -- https://github.com/defenseunicorns/kubernetes-fluent-client
• Lead on Lula -- https://github.com/defenseunicorns/lula
• Build Kubernetes Informers, work on Informer Pattern, cache patterns
• Manage team, Manage and Own Product and roadmap
• Build Kubernetes Controllers that control cluster resources
• Development around Kubernetes Admission Controllers (Mutating/Validating Webhooks)
• Kubernetes API aggregation layers and development
• Security and Compliance
• Technical Leadership/Collaboration
• Integrations in/across cloud native/hybrid cloud environment envs
• Architecture and Design/Performance Optimization
• Code Reviews
• Troubleshooting and Debugging
• Open Source Contributions

Jun 2023 – Sep 2023 · 3 mos · Miami, Florida, United States · Remote

• Working on Zarf -- https://github.com/defenseunicorns/zarf
• Develop features, fix bugs, and maintain major Golang-based app in the DevSecOps space
• Collaborate cross-functionally across products and teams to analyze requirements and build plugins with gRPC and WASM (Web Assembly).
• Implement efficient and optimized code to deliver high-performance/low-latency scalable software
• Utilize Go concurrency patterns, metrics and best practices to enhance application scalability and responsiveness
• Implement Mutating Admission Webhook to mutate container images, add annotations, and add imagePullSecrets in TypeScript
• Conduct thorough testing, including unit tests and integration tests by writing tests first before feature work
• Identify and resolve issues to increase product features
• Participate in PRs and code reviews providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices
• Actively researched/implemented new technologies like WASM
• Collaboration with UI/UX designers
• Doc enhancements and contributions around new features and bugs
• Create tutorials and videos to showcase feature work
• Architectural Solutions to maximize efficiency in the cloud native space
• Skills: Go (Golang), Application Architecture, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Docker, Devops, DevSecOps, gRPC, WASM, GitHub, Agile/Scrum, Testing and Debugging, Concurrency patterns.

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos

• Wrote command line tooling to automate installations and configurations for clients, libraries, and connections for data consumers. [Golang, Leveraged Starburst, Cobra]
• Wrote architecture and POC for Data Migration Application leveraging role based authorization based on teams allowing authenticated and authorized users data access. AuthN/Z Handled by Keycloak, Authorization Service in Go. Frontend in React with conditional rendering based on JWT Claims. Migration Service in Flask written by the team.
• Modernization of Data Tooling, porting components to Kubernetes/hybrid cloud
• Platform responsible for how Red Hatter's access data.
• Improve speed and experience of data access for internal stakeholders.

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023 · 7 mos

• Write Kubernetes Controllers and Operators
• Work across all major clouds and on-prem (GCP, AWS, and Azure)
• Build Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud Applications and Infrastructure in Go
• Design/Write Kubernetes Operators (Go, Helm)
• Instrument OpenTelemetry into applications (Distributed Tracing/ Distributed Logging)
• Instrument observability metrics into applications (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Instrument Devops/GitOps tooling, pipelines, environments, and culture
• Build/Define distributed Architectures
• Build Dashboards to show system state
• Instrument services Meshes and edge Gateways
• Build automation (Ansible)
• Programming Language: Go is my (go)-to, Node/TypeScript, React, Vanilla JS
• Instrumentation/Tooling: OpenTelemetry, Istio, Envoy, Jaegar, Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos

• Develop Kubernetes Operators
• Automate cloud environments and applications through Ansible and Helm
• Develop cloud native applications that live in distributed environments
• Multi-cluster High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Implement feature requests on Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud products
• Create/Automate/Develop pipelines that test, scan, analyze code to ensure safe delivery to production
• Create Metrics Dashboards for application monitoring and expose metrics in apps
• Evangelize best practices for infrastructure as code, devops, devsecops, gitops
• Work closely with partners and engineers to develop solutions for specific use-cases
• Languages: Go, Node, React, Ansible, Bash
• Frequently Use: Helm, AWS, GCP, Sonarqube, Twistlock, Anchore, Prometheus, Grafana, OperatorSDK

Oct 2020 – Dec 2020 · 2 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Write cloud native applications
• Deploy applications to Kubernetes environments
• Create pipelines to deliver applications to production from webhooks and other triggers.
• Write progressive web applications and native frontends
• Implement Service Mesh for enhances service to service communication
• Write/Deploy Knative Serverless applications
• Use gRPC
• Write React Applications
• Write NodeJS Applications
• Write in Vanilla javascript
• Write in Golang
• Work with NoSQL Databases, Caches and SQL Databases
• Work with Streams like Kafka and Kinesis
• Write Native code in react native and Electron

Aug 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Presenter at Red Hat Summit 2020 (Cloud Native Application Development from the trenches)
• Install OpenShift in clusters
• Deploy Service Mesh in Clusters gain more transparency and control over micro service architectures
• Deploy Knative (Serverless) applications and write pipelines in tekton to deliver applications into a kubernetes environment.
• Deploy applications in OpenShift
• Standup Services in the Cluster
• Build pipelines to test, analyze and deploy code
• Write cloud native state of the art Frontends using ReactJS with GraphQL that have offline functionality and service workers that are extremely efficient and the way of the future.
• Write cloud native services NodeJS, TypeScript, Express, Java, Quarkus that interact with streams, databases and caches
• Containerize Applications
• Give enablement for team members and speak at tech conferences
• Provide a high level of test coverage and Quality of code

Dec 2020 – Aug 2021 · 8 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina

• Work in-depth with Istio, edge cases, solving problems of network stability, traffic, tracing, scaling for orgs.
• Production Support (on-call rotations)
• Niche Customers with Many clusters (hundreds at times)
• Work with Kubernetes Ingress Controllers (Also edge gateways or "API" gateways)
• tech-stack: Go, gRPC, React (frontend)
• Work with API Gateways and complex traffic management
• Secure applications with OIDC, mTLS, TLS, JWT, and certs
• Understand and interpret certificates
• Work with the Envoy Proxy
• Create automation software to streamline and make processes more efficient
• Solve issues of scale and deployment
• Work with Web Assembly and header transformation of network traffic through a proxy
• Work in Kubernetes/VMs/Bare Metal Clusters
• Building Pipelines
• Debugging production issues
• Architectural Oversight and decisions

Dec 2018 – Aug 2019 · 8 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Great opportunity at Red Hat which prompted me to leave, learned a lot in a short time slicing apart monoliths and writing a lot of code
• Write and deploy services to Kubernetes
• Create services using AWS Lambda functions written in NodeJS
• Write services that interact and facilitate data flow between streams and persistent storage. (AWS Kinesis, AWS Kinesis Firehose, AWS S3)
• Write services interacting with caches (Redis) to maintain actual level of concurrency in the application.
• Maintain and enhance monolithic and legacy code (.NET, C#)
• Write Microfrontend using Singla SPA framework that bundles ReactJS, VueJS, and Angular code into one frontend
• Write YAML files to customize deployment and code behavior
• Manage users and userpools in AWS Cognito

Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 · 10 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Write Cloud Applications for metering and deploy in Kubernetes
• Write frontend dashboard style applications in ReactJS that pull data from multiple areas, extracting consumption metrics.
• Write secure applications in NodeJS
• Containerize and Deploy Applications
• Frequently create demo applications to prove proof of concepts with elegant frontends.
• Write applications to extract store consumption metrics in NoSQL and SQL databases.

Jul 2017 – Feb 2018 · 7 mos · Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

• Write frontend applications at templates for users to sell and plugin their data using environmental variables and files
• Write Frontend application in ReactJS that interact with backend services written in NodeJS
• Write services in NodeJS
• Write API that use GraphQL
• Manage and store user data in SQL and NoSQL databases and manage short lived data in caches
• Participate in design sprints to better understand how to help users manage their money and be able to build applications to address their needs.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017 · 6 mos · Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

• Write Progressive Web Applications that are efficient in places where bandwidth is low with GraphQL
• Write micro services in C# and NodeJS
• Write external secured API for developer consumption
• Regularly use SQL Databases
• Write frontend applications in ReactJS
• Write end to end tests
• Write test automation
• Write email services
• Work with Caches

Mar 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

• Build externally facing API's using NodeJS
• Work with PostgreSQL DB
• Write frontends in jQuery and ReactJS (2014 when react came out)
• Work with GraphQL
• Facilitate and participate in design sprints.
• Write unit and end to end tests