SANS Institute
2015 – 2023, 5 roles
Launched in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, it is SANS’ ongoing mission to empower cyber security professionals with the practical skills and knowledge they need to make our world a safer place. This effort is fueled by high quality training, certifications, scholarship academies, degree programs, cyber ranges, and resources to meet the needs of every cyber professional.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cloud Platform Engineering Sep 2020 – Dec 2023 3 yrs 3 mos
- Co-led defining organization-wide baseline development standards and specifications encompassing the DevOps lifecycle; including standard minimum setup of cloud account resources, GitHub organizations, branching strategies, naming standards, pipelines, integrations, and metadata
- Co-led defining organization-wide tagging standards for cloud resources
- Launched and maintained an internal Developer Portal based on Backstage, and fully dockerized local development environment
- Created templates for developers to self-service bootstrapping different projects types in the Develop Portal
- Implemented and integrated InSpec based scorecards with Developer Portal to score projects against baseline standards
- Implemented Makefile pattern for common entrypoints across all projects, propagating and normalizing this in nearly 100 projects
- Leveraged as a “mercenary”, being brought into other teams to audit, report, and improve their practices
- Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes
Senior DevOps Engineer
SANS Security Awareness May 2019 – Sep 2020 1 yr 4 mos
- Supported a team of 15 developers building a Learning Management System with an event-based microservice backend
- Wrote command-line tools to improve developer experience and abstract away the more complicated parts of cloud development
- Wrote microservices and ETL processes to facilitate migrating to new platforms
- Rebooted the business unit’s entire architecture/development/infrastructure after COVID, with two other engineers, as the only DevOps resource
- Contributed to the architecture, documentation, and implementation that led us to SOC 2 certification
- Wrote and maintained 10s of microservices, maintained and monitored systems, implemented and managed integrations
- Created a data governance document, and library implementing it to generate high fidelity learning records from courseware, and report on the ETLed data through AWS QuickSight
- Leveraged as a “mercenary”, being brought into other teams to audit, report, and improve their practices
- Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes
“Ops Dev”
SANS Security Awareness Jan 2018 – May 2019 1 yr 4 mos
- System maintenance, monitoring, incident response
- Operational support across on-prem and cloud-based systems
- Wrote ETL processes to facilitate migration processes
- Wrote scripts and services to bridge gaps in processes related to video muxing and transcoding
- Evaluated Translation Management Systems for integration with our content pipeline
- Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes
Development Lead
SANS Security Awareness Jul 2017 – May 2019 1 yr 10 mos
- Supporting enterprise LMS software, and related integrations to deliver in-house curricula, and tools for a variety of end-users around the world
- Working in a Scrum of Scrums with other leads to discuss, design, and plan work that is broken down into curated stories for sprints involving the components we are responsible for delivering
- Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes. Working with QA to improve unit/functional/acceptance tests within these pipelines
- Created and maintained VM and docker environments for developers
- Extending/Maintaining docker environments and mock infrastructure to support development/builds/testing
- Utilized the Atlassian product suite for product planning and tracking
Senior Software Developer
SANS Security Awareness Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 2 yrs
- Maintained PHP/MySQL applications, added features, integrated third party & internal services
- Built & maintained Python internal & external applications, web and cli
- Designed & implemented workflows using docker and docker-compose
- Expanded/maintained existing puppet configurations to support increasing application demands
- Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and Jenkins