Technical Summary

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I am experienced with

  • AWS
  • Active Directory
  • Android SDK
  • Ansible
  • Anthos
  • Arduino
  • Argo CD
  • Azure
  • Bash
  • Batch Scripting
  • C
  • C#
  • C++
  • CDNs
  • CSS
  • Cadence
  • Cassandra
  • Chef
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Cloud Identity
  • Consul
  • Datadog
  • Django
  • Docker
  • Dynatrace
  • EagleCAD
  • Elasticsearch
  • Encryption
  • Excel
  • Express
  • Firebase
  • Firewalls
  • Flask
  • Flutter
  • Fusion 360
  • GCP
  • GNU
  • Git
  • Github Actions
  • Gitlab
  • Go
  • Grafana
  • HTML5
  • Harness
  • Helm
  • Istio
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Jenkins
  • Kali Linux
  • Kong
  • Kubernetes
  • Kustomize
  • LDAP
  • LTSpice
  • LaTeX
  • Load Balancing
  • MATLAB
  • MacOS
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • New Relic
  • NextJS
  • Nginx
  • Node
  • OpenShift
  • Oracle
  • PSQL
  • Pen Testing
  • Policy Creation
  • Powershell
  • Prometheus
  • Proxies
  • Puppet
  • Python
  • ROS
  • Raspberry Pi
  • React
  • React Native
  • Redis
  • SSL
  • SSO
  • Secret Management
  • Signal Processing
  • Splunk
  • Subnetting
  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • Tokenization
  • TravisCI
  • Typescript
  • Unix
  • VHDL
  • VMware
  • Vagrant
  • Vault
  • VegaDNS
  • Verilog
  • Visual Basic
  • Vulnerability Assessments
  • Windows
  • Windows Server
  • Wordpress
  • X.509 Certificate Management

Professional Experience

Cisco
October 2023 - Present

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Part of the Service Discovery team, supporting the Cisco Security Cloud: a global, cloud-delivered, integrated platform that secures and connects organizations of any shape and size (840,000 networks, 67 million mailboxes, and 87 million endpoints - and counting!).

  • Developed a Cisco Webex Chatbot with an embedding model that enhances team operations by automating deployment requests, generating infrastructure configurations, providing documentation direction, and managing issue tracking.
  • Implemented Terragrunt in Jenkins CI/CD, optimizing the team's infrastructure deployment workflow for increased efficiency and reliability.
  • Enhanced performance testing for Consul servers and clients, contributing valuable insights and implementing improvements to the testing methodology, resulting in optimized system reliability and responsiveness.
  • Proactively addressed and resolved diverse issues within Consul, Terraform, AWS, and Kubernetes during on-call rotations, showcasing a robust troubleshooting skill set and ensuring continuous system reliability.
  • Received 10 recognition awards for exceptional performance.
  • Established comprehensive performance testing for edge computing solutions, including test case creation, pipeline automation, documentation, and execution of over 20 tests across multiple environments.
  • Updated on-call onboarding guides and operational runbooks for improved clarity and usability.
  • Created a collaborative communication platform to enhance team visibility and cohesion.
  • Led the design and implementation of an innovative project in the last quarter, driving forward strategic initiatives.
  • Contributed significantly to meeting tight compliance deadlines for SOC2 evidence collection.
  • Managed complex deployments and releases for service discovery platforms, ensuring major upgrades with no service interruptions through thorough testing and stakeholder coordination.
  • Joined the on-call rotation within one month of hire, resolving over five incidents, demonstrating rapid adaptation and problem-solving skills.
  • Supported infrastructure buildouts and service expansions, aligning with team goals and business requirements.
  • Transformed release scheduling and deployment timelines with automation, reducing processes from a full day to seconds.
  • Crafted an automation pipeline for real-time documentation updates upon code revisions, facilitating a GitOps workflow.
  • Pioneered the development of parallel deployment strategies, minimizing update rollout times across a network of over 80 data centers.
  • Reorganized a version control system's structure to reduce operational overhead and address legacy code issues.
  • Enhanced security in deployment pipelines by implementing the principle of least privilege.
  • Set up health notifications for system reliability engineering teams, streamlining member account setups for monitoring services.
  • Formulated an advanced process to replace load balancers in production environments without any service downtime.
  • Introduced new integration plugins and optimized cloud resource management, resulting in substantial cost savings.
TELUS
May 2020 - September 2023

Cloud DevOps Engineer - TV MiddleWare (Oct 2021 - September 2023)

Expert in developing, implementing, and maintaining secure cloud infrastructure for TELUS, including Kubernetes and cloud-based systems.

  • Designed and implemented a comprehensive application performance and infrastructure monitoring solution across 20 GCP projects and 20+ Kubernetes clusters, improving system reliability and optimized resource utilization.
  • Spearheaded the development of serverless applications using Python and Go for monitoring and cluster operations automation, resulting in improved efficiency and automated processes.
  • Created a highly-available and geographically redundant Kubernetes infrastructure for multi-cluster service deployments, ensuring continuous service availability and disaster recovery.
  • Automated agent installation across all infrastructure with Ansible playbooks and pipelines, saving significant time and improving operational efficiency.
  • Strengthened cluster security by integrating infrastructure, container, and application vulnerability scanning agents into CI/CD pipelines for continuous protection.
  • Managed Github organization administration and ensured secure access to Google Cloud services using Github Actions, JIRA, and a workload identity pool for improved workflow and collaboration.
  • Established a cloud interconnect network to enable secure mTLS communication between on-premise services and cloud microservices, enhancing data security and privacy.
  • Designed and maintained 60+ internal GCP and Kubernetes Terraform modules, improving infrastructure management efficiency and reducing manual error.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for Kubernetes incident review, resulting in quick resolution of critical issues and minimal downtime for clients.

Security Consultant - Security DevOps (May 2020 - Oct 2021)

Responsible for identifying TELUS' business and security requirements and implementing world-class security systems based on strategic security roadmaps. Provided development and operational support for internal applications and services aimed at protecting and reinforcing security services for all corporate security managers.

  • Designed and maintained Java and C# APIs, Windows & Linux OS services for identity and access management, improving security for over 80,000 employees.
  • Developed end-to-end automation and migration of certificate creation, delivery, and installation for over 5000 managed certificates and 100 Active Directory groups with 5-fold efficiency improvement
  • Reverse engineered over 20 Java web applications and over 80 cronjob operations for monolithic service breakdown enabling microservice refactoring
  • Collaborated with development teams in Disaster Recovery projects migrating over 10 applications to a Google Cloud Platform platform.
  • Successfully finished the Development and Implementation of Robotic Process Automation tasks as requested by Security Customer Care, earning two bravo awards for exceptional work.
  • Prepared detailed design documents and spreadsheets that showcased the legacy web application and batch operations' connected systems, leading to the successful breakdown of monolithic services into microservices.
  • Collaborated with the DevOps team on Disaster Recovery projects, successfully migrating 10+ applications to the Google Cloud Platform cloud environment.
Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021

Administrative Lead (Sep 2019 - Sep 2020)

Served as a Logistics and Business Lead for a 60+ member team consisting of engineering students and graduates, tasked with designing and building an autonomous underwater vehicle for the annual RoboSub competition in San Diego. Achieved a ranking of 4th out of over 50 international teams in 2019 and 6th in 2020.

  • Secured over $50,000 in funding for group operations and travel expenses through revenue generation
  • Oversaw social media communications, managing a subscriber base of over 1000
  • Redesigned legacy WordPress website (arvp.org) from the ground up, incorporating best practices for WordPress and security
  • Served as the primary point of contact for University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering and RoboNation communications

Electrical/Software Robotics Designer (Jan 2018 - Aug 2021)

Contributed to the design and implementation of software and electrical systems, enabling autonomous operation of the robot vehicle.

  • Implemented LQR methodology in redesign of robot's control system
  • Designed and created reverse polarity protection for in-house circuit boards
  • Developed TravisCI pipeline scripts to automate software builds and tests
  • Contributed to the development of perception, control, and mapping modules
  • Handled soldering and testing of custom-made printed circuit boards
City of Edmonton
Jan 2019 - May 2020

Open Source Developer

Participated in a mentorship program with the City of Edmonton, contributing to multiple open source full-stack and DevOps projects on GitHub.

  • Contributed to open-source projects using Angular, Node.js, and Elasticsearch.
  • Assisted in designing and developing a cloud infrastructure CI/CD pipeline with Docker and Jenkins.