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Work Experience

• Software Infrastructure and Kubernetes Engineering Contractor, Bloomberg LP

  Sep, 2019 - PresentCurrent Position

  Continuing summer work on a distributed multi-tenancy Kubernetes platform as a service offering.

• Software Infrastructure and Kubernetes Engineering (Intern), Bloomberg LP

  June, 2019 - August, 20193 Months

  Designed and implemented a system for managing and deploying multi-tenancy distributed Kubernetes clusters. Built a microservice to synchronize a declarative private API with Kubernetes clusters across several datacenters. Designed systems with failure in mind which constantly reconverge Kubernetes environments with a private declarative API such that disaster recovery requires no change in behavior.

• Software Infrastructure and Kubernetes Engineering Contractor, Bloomberg LP

  Sep, 2018 - PresentCurrent Position

  Was offered a contract to continue my work on building out a modular alerting and monitoring platform. Designing sensors for various dependencies and building out CI/CD for the project I created over the summer. Also contributing to other aspects of Kubernetes Platform as a Service offering.

• Software Infrastructure and Kubernetes Engineering (Intern), Bloomberg LP

  Jun, 2018 - Sep, 20183 months

  Designed and implemented a fully modular alerting and monitoring platform for Kubernetes services as well as dependencies for deployment orchestration services.

• Junior Data Engineer , CrowdStrike

  January, 2018 - June, 20186 Months

  Worked on pipelines and data warehousing strategies for threat detection ML models. Also supported data visaulization efforts.

• Growth Hacker and Developer Relations, Rancher Labs

  September, 2017 - January 20184 Months

  Worked as an author of devops tutorials for Rancher Labs

  • Built all sorts of products to run on top of the Rancher stack.
  • Wrote lots of blog posts and tutorials detailing how to run different software stacks and technologies in, on, and around Rancher.

• Data Science DevOps Engineering (Intern), CrowdStrike / Secure Domain foundation

  June, 2017 - September, 20173 Months

  Built modules for machine learning operations and a containerized ecosystem for shipping algorithms and processors.

  • Utilized Docker to create and ship packaged instances of ML algorithms and processors.

• API Design and Fullstack Web Engineering (Intern), Bloomberg LP

  Jun, 2017 - Sep, 20173 months

  Developed a platform for message transformation scripting versioning and deploying as well as a message transform processor for Apache Camel

  • Built a REST API to maintain scripts and versions as well as manage users, deployments, and api keys.
  • Wrote a ReactJS + Flux interface to allow users to interact with the API routes in an easy, web format.
  • Wrote multiple processors for Apache Camel to fetch scripts from the API (suppliying an environment that the API used to provide the right version) download them, pass messages through them and feed the ouputs along to the next Camel route.

• Fullstack Web and DNS Developer (Intern), CrowdStrike / Secure Domain foundation

  Oct, 2015 - June, 201720 Months

  Worked with advanced DNS and Reverse Proxy technologies, building applications on an AngularJS Stack and Express JS / MySQL based REST API Backend.

  • Worked on an independent project with Co-Founder of SDF Norm Ritchie and CTO of CrowdStrike Dmitri Alperovitch concerning secure DNS technologies.
  • Built the new Secure Domain Foundation Website from scratch in a heavily robust manner.
  • Built machine learning models to classify malicious domains based on static whois and resolution information.

• Lead Engineer (Volunteer), FloatPlane Club

  November, 2016 - February, 20164 Months

  Ideated and created an independent video streaming platform for Linus Tech Tips.

  • Created a content management system to create, organize, and relate tech videos.
  • Built a front end template engine to display HLS streams of said videos including quality selection, chromecast compatibility, and download support.
  • Built FFMPEG transcoding drivers which pull jobs from a database and share job progress through a shared memory cache.
  • Built tracking views in the CMS to follow the progress of transcoding jobs, as well as easily copy/paste templates to show videos from the platform.
  • Helped to implement a Nimble Streamer based buffered HLS streaming workflow utilizing two edge nodes and a central origin node.

• Machine Learning Deployment Engineer (Intern), Bloomberg LP

  Jun, 2016 - Aug, 20162 months

  Worked on Bloomberg's Machine Learning teams building workflows for deploying long running applications on the Apache Slider framework.

  • Extended Apache Oozie open source project to provide deployment strategies (in the form of Oozie Actions) for machine learning cluster tenants.
  • Implemented the Git ecosystem into Apache open source projects to provide version control and deployment support.
  • Worked for 12 weeks during a summer internship in NYC.

• Developer, Designer, and Co-Founder, DealHunter.Tech

  Apr, 2016 - Feb, 201710 months

  Built a database backed tech deals website from scratch using Amazon's Product Advertising API to get live pricing information.

  • Created an intelligent backend that checks prices and watches price trends autonomously.
  • Created a mailing list with over 5,000 daily subscribers that runs completely autonomously.
  • Created a robust Amazon API price checker and relative price calculator.
  • Created a database driven Content Management System for listing new items with nothing more than a Amazon Standard Identification Number.

• Web Application Developer (Intern), Bloomberg LP

  Jun, 2015 - Aug, 20152 months

  Worked on Bloomberg's New Energy Finance team, building the back and front end for a project CodeCon, as well as building Angular.js front-end frameworks for the BNEF website.

  • Worked for 8 weeks during a summer internship.
  • Built a realtime collaborative frontend platform using websockets and sessions to write code with multiple users simultaneously.

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