Technologies: AWS: EC2, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Database Migration Service, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway, Developer Tools, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail, CloudFormation, Systems Manager, Secret Manager, AWS Chatbot, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, IAM, Certificate Manager, KMS, SES, SNS, SQS, Cost Explorer, ECS, ECR, EKS, Organizations, Config, Pinpoint, X-Ray, Eventbridge, WAF, Inspector, GuardDuty, Windows, MacOS, Linux(Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Amazon), Python, Javascript/Typescript, Go, Elixir, Java/Scala/Kotlin, Bash, Node.js, Express.js, React, Ionic, GraphQL, Phoenix, Django/Flask, Maven, Vim, Visual Studio, VSCode, Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Firebase, Git, Team Foundation Server, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Docker, TravisCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, DataDog, NewRelic, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, ELK Stack, Splunk, Artifactory, CLI, nginx, Chrome Dev Tools, Cloudflare, Kubernetes, Firebase, GCP

EDUCATION

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
M.S Computer Science
January 2013

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
B.S Computer Science
August 2008 - December 2012

EXPERIENCE

Redacted Company Director of Engineering
April 2023 - Present

• Successfully grew, onboarded, and developed a highly performant engineering team.
• Established clear technical direction, roadmaps, and tech specs, aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
• Implemented effective project management practices ensuring clear communication, task tracking, and risk mitigation.
• Led the evaluation and adoption of reliable and innovative technologies, driving great engineering practices and competitive advantage.
• Personally in charge of mobile development, CI/CD, and cloud DevOps initiatives.
• Diligently establishing, monitoring, and enforcing technology budgets to ensure maximum optimization and minimal waste.
• Communicated regularly with marketing, investor relations, and business development teams to ensure transparency and manage expectations of product development.

Carestarter Technologies, Austin, TX (Remote) Principle DevOps Engineer
November 2020 - April 2023

• Led DevOps initiative by standing up a well architected, multi-environment AWS GovCloud framework for use with military and commercial facing applications.
• Led security initiative by taking advantage of AWS security best practices as well as creating a “self-documenting system” to satisfy FedRAMP authorization requirements.
• Created and managed AWS infrastructure resources using Terraform and Cloudformation/SAM.
• Helped establish developmental best practices for a brand new team.
• Stood up and maintained CI/CD pipelines for all projects.
• Contributed to the design and development of greenfield, cross-platform, React based front-end application as well as serverless Python based APIs.
• Maintained legacy system while building out modern, bleeding-edge replacement.
• Vetted and interviewed 3rd party consultants, contractors, and applicants.
• Communicated directly with C-Suite personnel as well as board members on development progress.

Cox Automotive (Manheim), Atlanta, GA Senior Software/DevOps Engineer
May 2018 - July 2020

• Modernized and streamlined CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams migrating them from older Groovy scripts to Dockerfiles and Jenkinsfiles.
• Automated and simplified the creation of new infrastructure using a combination of bash scripts, rake files, and Terraform.
• Led the migration of applications from legacy GitHub and AWS accounts to newer organization accounts for multiple teams with zero downtime and no data loss.
• Owned and developed numerous APIs using a variety of technologies to manage the inventory of the entire Manheim business and the overall Cox Auto ecosystem.
• Contributed to the development of intuitive front-end features for the flagship seller-side product.
• Created a generic, configurable, and RESTful API framework to rapidly build and deploy new APIs that was adopted by multiple teams.
• Helped push an organization wide initiative to adopt and implement the micro-front-end ideology.
• Utilized various reporting, monitoring, and logging tools to ensure team members had full knowledge of the health of applications and quick response times.
• Implemented various testing patterns and strategies to solidify our codebases and allow our tests to act as a form of “documentation” for developers.
• Evangelized pair programming, Git Flow, and other best practices to ensure high quality work and software stewardship and craftsmanship.
• Prioritized communication of changes, issues, and progress of work throughout the entire business spectrum from directors and product owners to junior engineers.

Blacc Spot Media, Midtown Atlanta, GA Software Engineer
September 2016 - March 2018

• Utilized bleeding edge technologies to provide quality products for clients across the country.
• Set up CI/CD flows for seamless deployment of new features.
• Implemented Docker to split up applications into different microservices.
• Developed robust APIs using Node.js for serving React/redux based front-end streaming applications.
• Oversaw growth and development of junior engineers.
• Worked alongside outside resources both local and around the globe.
• Managed DevOps of every consumer, logging, monitoring, and reporting application in AWS.
• Developed MVPs and Proof of Concepts for clients’ greenfield projects using the MEAN stack.
• Evangelized best practices using agile methodologies for quicker and cleaner code development.
• Led the way on maintaining up to date versions of all our tools as well as researching any and all up and coming technologies that could potentially suit our needs better.

CareerBuilder, Norcross, GA Software Engineer
April 2013 - September 2016

• Worked in a fast paced, international team.
• Communicated directly with clients on multi-million dollar accounts.
• Created a next-generation platform to integrate with hundreds of client APIs that deliver millions of data packets per week using Node.js and Go; converting over the system from VB.NET on AWS Lambda.
• Facilitated the fulfillment of client requests using a hybrid Ruby back-end with an AngularJS front-end solution that reduced the time to onboard a client from months to minutes.
• Worked on SEO, localization, and front-end development for the company’s flagship product utilizing full .NET technology stack.
• Collaborated with multiple teams, both internal and external, to accomplish complex solutions.
• Contributed to sprint leadership as a scrum master.
• Utilized Chef to set up custom deployments in AWS OpsWorks.
• Evaluated Docker as an alternative for deployments instead of Chef and migrated applications over.