Senior Software Engineer - Openshift at Red Hat

August 2017 - Present

Automating deployments of OpenShift with Ansible. One of the maintainers and contributors of openshift-ansible. Writing ansible plugins in python, automated testing and development with GCE, AWS, and OpenStack.

Cloud Engineer at Walmart

2015 - 2017

• Active technical contributor to various OpenStack software projects.
• Deploying software with Ansible, writing Ansible roles and plays.
• Developing Ansible modules.
• Development work in Python.
• Developing unit and functional tests for Python software in CI environments.
• Working with Architects to design internal software deployments.
• Writing blog posts for public blog on medium.com.
• Working extensively with Linux Containers (LXC, LXD)
• Technical presentations at local OpenStack meetups.

Sr. Linux DevOps Engineer at TekSystems

Comcast Wifi Operations

2014 - 2015

• Participating in distributed development using Git.
• Deploying software using Puppet, writing Puppet modules.
• Development work in Python, Perl, PHP.
• zeromq, tornado, flask, redis, Oracle 10g, MySQL, C, nginx.
• IPv6, GRE tunnels, OpenVswitch, network namespaces.
• Systems Architecture.
• Developing RESTful APIs in PHP and Python serving 17+ million requests per day.
• Managing hundreds of servers and tens of millions of devices.

Other Positions

2004 - 2014

• Sr. Linux Engineer, Team Lead, @ eGlobalTech 2013-2014
• Linux and Windows System Administrator @ Carpathia Hosting 2011 - 2013
• Windows System Admin @ Apex Systems / HP 2010-2011
• US Navy Electronics Technician (rank E5) 2004-2010

Thomas Edison State College

Associates of Applied Sciences in Electronic Studies, 2009

GPA 4.0