Top tier


My value proposition

To deliver value by aligning with your business needs and focusing on sustainable quality.
  • Team leadership
  • Infrastructure consulting
  • Targeted project development
  • Infrastructure review

Business focus areas


SRE/DevOps evangelist

Adapting SRE and DevOps principles to deliver business value

Analytical approach

Iterative, data-driven process and decisions
  • six sigma
  • LEAN
  • statistical analysis

Team leadership

Strike teams, direct reports, cross-organizational
  • collaborative
  • business alignment
  • team joy
  • challenge the process

Industry experience

  • startup
  • open-source
  • search engine
  • healthcare
  • trading/HFT
  • telecommunications
  • CDN

Open source evangelist

Adapting open source and free software and principles with direct community engagement. Contributions in link.

Technical focus areas


Software development

Architecture, implementation, and integration
  • Java
  • Python
  • bash
  • C
  • C++ OOP
  • Perl
  • Lisp
  • Ruby
  • Javascript
  • Agile
  • Project management
  • JIRA

Google Cloud expertise

Unix

Management and design
  • Software
  • Architecture
  • System administration

Linux

Management and tuning
  • CentOS
  • RedHat
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • HP
  • Dell

Configuration management

Architecture, implementation, and testing

Containers and workload management

Cross-platform design and support

Observability/Logging

Collecting, searching, exploring logs

Observability/Monitoring

Collecting, analyzing, visualizing metrics

Observability/Alerting

Generating and managing actionable alerts

CI/CD

  • Single Source Repository
  • Automate the Build
  • Self-Testing Build
  • Everyone Collaborates
  • Every Commit Does an Integration Build
  • Fix Broken Builds Immediately
  • Keep the Build Fast
  • Test in a Clone of Production
  • Publish Latest Build Artifacts
  • Open and Visible
  • Automate Deployment
  • CI
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • TeamCity
  • Jenkins

Trading Infrastructure

Architecture and implementation
  • pricefeeds
  • gateways
  • monitoring
  • compliance reporting

Web development

Web sites from inception to scale
  • CDN
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • Javascript
  • jQuery

Database administration and development

  • SQL
  • Oracle
  • MySQL/MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Sybase
  • MS SQL