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Sr DevOps Engineer
Brave Software•  March 2018 - October 2018
Was in charge of Implementing update client and infrastructure for the Chromium fork as well as automating on maintaining AWS infrastructure. Worked on ad infrastructure for Brave’s implementation of BAT advertising.
Software Engineer
Curse•  September 2014 - March 2018
Oversaw operations and networking with the goal of reducing IT overhead by building services to automate common tasks and codify best practices. Managed an in-house BGP/OSPF network of 2K/200/50 nodes/services/sites running across most of well known web stacks, fronted by a distribution network serving 20B requests monthly. In this setup we where able to achieve 99.999% uptime.
 Implemented and managed a redundant and scalable monitoring and graphing system recording over 1 million metrics a minute across thousands of machines with Sensu, RabbitMQ, Redis, Carbon/Graphite. Migrated linux infrastructure from Puppet to Chef, and later refined this to simplify dependency management by adopting the Berkshelf workflow, unit testing and automated deployment.
DevOps Engineer
Amazon•  August 2016 - March 2018
Multiple roles listed during this time period due to Twitch/AWS/Amazon acquisition of Curse in 2016. Under a tight deadline to exceed the Curse IT acquisition requirements set by Twitch. My effort here was recognized with the first employee of the month award under the then new Curse subsidiary. Worked to increase security across Curse's infrastructure, integrating our wide range of app's and services with Twitch's internal secret management system.
Network Technician
API Digital•  June 2014 - September 2014
Enterprise emergency network management support.
Systems Administrator
Digital Fortress•  April 2012 - June 2014
Senior level support for unix systems Rebuilt unix infrastructure while designing v2 systems with Puppet Management of unix, and Windows web servers
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