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Work Experience

MoveHQ, Columbus, OH (Remote)

Senior DevOps Engineer II

June 2024 - Present

  • Using Helm, FluxCD, Terraform (OpenTofu), and Spacelift to manage and develop 10+ Kubernetes clusters on AWS GovCloud with FedRAMP compliance.
  • Writing and maintaining GitHub Actions to build and ship Docker images, AMIs, and Cloudflare Worker code bundles, as well as running tests across various codebases.
  • Part of the on-call rotation providing 24/7 production support using DataDog to setup logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.

Niche.com, Pittsburgh, PA (Remote)

Senior Manager, Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering

March 2024 – June 2024

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

January 2021 – March 2024

  • Creating alignment across the company towards the adoption of GitOps, continuous delivery, observability tooling, and a reliability framework.
  • Planned the project for and promoted adoption of FluxCD GitOps deployment tooling.
  • Managing a team of four SREs and two Infrastructure Engineers, hired and onboarded each.
  • Built out security and cost reporting for team operations.

Site Reliability Engineer

July 2019 – January 2021

Infrastructure Engineer

July 2018 – July 2019

Associate Infrastructure Engineer

August 2017 – July 2018

  • Led the effort to migrate the company’s build processes from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.
  • Migrated Golang backend from EC2 managed with Terraform to Kubernetes with kOps and Helm.
  • Participated in and set standards for 24/7 on-call rotation and incident response.
  • Wrote several tools in Bash to make deployments easier for teams.
  • Set up a bare metal Postgres instance and tuned from scratch, then automated surrounding data transport processes w/ Docker, Golang, Python, and AWS Lambda serverless functions.
  • Coded and maintained Terraform-managed Production web application stack in AWS.

PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, PA

IT Customer Support Analyst

January 2017 – August 2017

University of Pittsburgh GSPIA IT Dept., Pittsburgh, PA

Student Assistant

September 2016 – December 2016

Waynesburg University ITS Helpdesk, Waynesburg, PA

ITS Student Support Specialist

September 2012 – May 2016

FBI Center (CJIS), Clarksburg, WV and Pittsburgh FBI Field Office

Student Workforce Trainee

June 2015 – April 2016

Education

Master of Business Administration

Southern New Hampshire University

  • Graduated September 2023
  • Focus in IT Management
  • Honor Roll; GPA 4.0

9 Master’s Level Computer Science Credits

University of Pittsburgh

  • Awarded December 2016

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Waynesburg University

  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors in May of 2016
  • Minor: Music
  • Academic Dean’s List; GPA 3.96

Skills

Main Languages

  • Proficient

    • Bash
    • HCL
    • Helm chart YAML
    • Kubernetes YAML
    • Python

  • Familiar

    • Golang
    • JavaScript
    • Ruby
    • Rust
    • SQL

My Favorite Tools

  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Helm
  • Kubernetes in AWS EKS
  • Prometheus
  • Terraform

Managerial

  • Agile ceremonies
  • Cost tracking and reporting
  • Change management
  • Mentorship and coaching
  • Project management

Software I've Used Regularly/Maintained

  • Apache Kafka in AWS MSK
  • AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS, VPC
  • Datadog
  • kOps
  • Grafana Cloud
  • NGINX
  • Postgres
  • Sumo Logic
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • Vim
  • VSCode
  • Wiz Cloud Security

Service Activities

  • Volunteer staff at Deer Valley YMCA Camp, occasionally on weekends, 2010 – present
  • Volunteer speaker at Waynesburg University Computer Science Club, 2024 – present

Scholarships and Awards

  • NFFTY Audience Award for Younger Finland film, October, 2018
  • Quality Champion at PPG Global IT Service Desk, May, 2017
  • Waynesburg University Presidential Honor Scholarship, 2012 – 2016
  • Waynesburg University Computer Science Departmental Scholarship, 2012 – 2016
  • Made a Difference; Deer Valley YMCA Family Camp Summer Staff Award, 2014
  • Academic Excellence Award from the Computer Science Department of Waynesburg University, 2014
  • Rookie of the Year; Deer Valley YMCA Family Camp Summer Staff Award, 2013