Resume

Site Reliability Engineer with experience developing software professionally since 2015 including libraries, build tooling, user-facing applications, and production web services.

Technologies used professionally:

• Ruby, Python, Java, C++
• Terraform, Chef, Ansible
• CircleCI, TravisCI, Jenkins
• AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Route53
• OpenTelemetry

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer, September 2021 to present
Equinix Metal (remote)

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Developer Advocate, March 2020 to June 2021
Honeycomb.io (remote)

• Wrote and presented technical talks at industry and community events on topics including observability, progressive delivery, and operational excellence
• Authored user-facing reference documentation as well as instructional tutorials for the company blog and gated downloadable assets
• Developed project management system for the company blog editorial pipeline and calendar, separating the writing, editing, staging, and publishing steps of the process to facilitate planning and parallelization
• Lead calls advising customers and prospects on instrumentation, managing data volume, and adopting observability practices in their organizations
• Captured detailed user feedback from customers and the community to support and shape the UI and integrations product roadmap
• Validated, revised, and reorganized user-facing documentation leading up to the launch of Refinery, Honeycomb’s trace-aware sampling proxy
• Developed, tested, and documented initial release of Honeycomb’s OpenTelemetry distribution for Java while embedded in the integrations team: honeycombio/honeycomb-opentelemetry-java

DevOps Engineer, June 2018 to March 2020
true[X], Los Angeles, CA

• Updated configuration-as-code from Chef 12 to Chef 14 via gradual upgrade of 42 interdependent Chef cookbooks, rolling out new AMIs across QA and production clusters
• Safely upgraded infrastructure from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 using conditional configuration blocks in Chef code
• Created Chef configurations for new Rails, Node, and Flask apps
• Deployed new services on AWS EC2 using Terraform to manage load balancing, autoscaling, security groups, and other network configuration
• Refactored Terraform code to support the team’s first gRPC application in production, including allowing for a separate HTTP ALB listener for health checks
• Formalized process for requesting infrastructure for new services, including a new production-readiness checklist

Site Reliability Engineer, August 2017 to January 2018
Grindr, West Hollywood, CA

• Developed rpm package build orchestration tool in Ruby to enable CI/CD for CentOS 7 packages: grindrlabs/revolution
• Implemented tree-traversal algorithm for package dependency resolution
• Streamlined team’s ticketing system to better visually reflect work-in-progress, facilitating prioritization conversations with engineering management and other stakeholders

Software Engineer, September 2015 to August 2017
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA

Project: DyCAST

• Designed and implemented translation tool in Java to convert the codebase of a mission-critical communications analysis tool into human-readable C++
• Developed a custom ANTLR4 grammar to parse ~200,000 lines of legacy code in ModSim III, a proprietary language
• Developed test suite to validate grammar changes by diffing pretty-printed output against legacy codebase
• Developed listener and templates to compile parsed input into C++ while preserving code comments and semantic conventions
• Developed automated unit tests to validate correctness of C++ output code

Project: PySOAP

• Developed and maintained Python library for interfacing with Aerospace’s Satellite Orbit Analysis Program (SOAP)
• Maintained organization-internal PyPI repository for hosting packages
• Proposed API redesign and gathered feedback from over 20 technical stakeholders
• Authored user-facing API documentation and workshop content

Software Engineer Intern, June 2015 to August 2015
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA

• Designed and implemented proof-of-concept pretty printer tool in Java by developing an ANTLR4 grammar to parse the codebase of a mission-critical communications analysis tool along with custom templates to generate output
• Developed Python scripts integrating existing VBA macros used to format launch mission database files, reducing 25-step process down to 6 steps and minimizing the potential for user error in the case of last-minute critical data updates before a launch window

QA Automation Intern, December 2014 to March 2015
XYPRO Technology, Simi Valley, CA

• Developed automated test suite for security dashboard web application for HP Enterprise NonStop server software using Watir-Webdriver in Ruby

Education

Computer Science coursework, June 2014 to June 2016
Oregon State University E-campus

Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, June 2012
University of California, Santa Barbara