2024
Cisco — Software Malware Analytics
Sep 2024 – Present · ongoing↑ Promotion
DevOps Leader
Leading the Build, CI/CD, SRE, and real-time product monitoring team across data centers worldwide for a world-class SaaS malware analytics platform.
- Integrating Agentic AI into Pull Request, Merge, Build, and CI processes
- Leading a team spanning Build Engineering, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, and live product monitoring
- Automate, design, deploy, and manage infrastructure for the SaaS application and its internal development pipeline
- Stack: Salt Stack, VMware, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Maven, Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, AWS, Mattermost
- Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, large-scale Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus
- Package/repo management: Arch, Aptly, pBuilder for Ubuntu Linux
2016
Cisco — ThreatGrid
Mar 2016 – Sep 2024
DevOps Engineer
Designed, deployed, and managed all infrastructure for a world-class SaaS malware analysis platform and its internal development pipeline.
- Salt Stack and VMware for configuration management and virtualization
- GitHub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD; repository management via Arch and Aptly for Ubuntu Linux
- Large-scale Elasticsearch stack management; Kibana, Grafana, and Prometheus for observability
- MySQL and PostgreSQL; Mattermost for team communications integration
2015
Kimbia, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos
DevOps Engineer
Modernized Kimbia's environment from bare-metal single-datacenter to co-located, dynamically expandable VMs.
- Took over and rebuilt the Jenkins build environment from scratch
- Brought automated testing, reporting, and SonarQube analysis to the dev process
- Self-configuring VMs: zero to fully operational Kimbia in under 10 minutes
- Designed systems with a high availability mindset
- Researched, analyzed, proposed, and implemented new technology solutions for Kimbia's infrastructure
- Drove PCI inspection and compliance; managed AlienVault SIEM
- Introduced MySQL cluster failover and redundancy
2013
21CT
Sep 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos
DevOps Engineer
Designed and owned the complete build and delivery system for the Torch visual data analysis platform.
- Checkin to live environment in ~7 minutes
- Designed and maintained local mirrors of Linux and npm repositories
- Managed vSphere and Vagrant cloud stand-up/tear-down
- Designed custom data center hardware stack; set and implemented security policies
- Automated everything; managed versioning, release scheduling, and tracking
2013
Hewlett-Packard
Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos
Build and Release Engineer
Short-term contract improving the build process for six software products.
- Simplified build structure and introduced redundancy and parallelism across six products
- Created smarter, faster CI jobs
2012
IBM
Nov 2005 – Jun 2013 · 7 yrs 8 mos total↑ Promotion
Software Engineer, DevOps
Post-acquisition integration of UrbanCode products into IBM's SmartCloud Continuous Delivery story.
- Repaired and extended test harnesses, installation scripts, and Chef recipes for SmartCloud Continuous Delivery
- Converted internal build and distribution methods to utilize the newly-acquired uDeploy product
- Engineered licensing solution for uDeploy and uRelease
2006
IBM — Build Forge
Oct 2006 – Oct 2012↑ Promotion
Software Engineer, Release Manager
Customer-facing support, product engineering, and release ownership for the IBM Build Forge automation platform.
- Engineered solutions and software patches for highest-tier customer defects
- Proposed and built new modules in the Build Forge product
- Oversaw and implemented three of Build Forge's most popular fix packs
- Managed two major product releases, keeping dev, test, and management in lockstep
- Designed and implemented interoperability with Rational Common Licensing
2005
IBM — Build Forge
Nov 2005 – Oct 2006
Support and Software Engineer
On-site and remote enterprise support and software engineering before the IBM acquisition.
- Provided on-site and remote support for highest-tier customer problems
- Engineered solutions and software patches to resolve defects
2004
Elevating Boats, LLC
Mar 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos
Software Developer / Network Administrator
- System and network administrator
- PHP developer for Mercury, a custom web-based payroll and inventory system
- 3D CAD software management
- Rebuilt site network in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
1999
CTC — California Technical Contracting, Inc.
Mar 1999 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs 11 mos
System/Network Administrator, CAD Draftsperson
- System and network administrator, both in-house and outsourced to clients
- CAD drafter for architectural and engineering projects
1998
UGO.com
1998 – 1999 · 1 yr
Affiliate Manager · Web Developer
- Developed front page and CMS for UGO.com
- Acquired and managed affiliate sites; built JS-based ad-banner serving system