I am a professional software engineer with 8+ years of experience. A former team leader and CTO of Coligo Technologies. I hold a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering. My specialties include JavaScript, Node.js, Python, REST API, Express, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, CI/CD, and cloud services.
I am a Hadoop Administrator/Devops Engineer. Developed automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Python and Rundeck. Designed and developed automated deployment and scaling processes based on Vagrant and Chef for a wide range of server types and application tiers, including Elasticsearch, and Zend PHP and IIS Clusters. Wrote custom monitoring and integrated monitoring methods into deployment processes to develop self-healing solutions. Created automation and deployment templates for relational and nosql databases (standalone and RDS), including MSSQL, Mysql, MongoDB, Redis and Neo4j. Performed remote management using remoto-it, a Plain Old Bash (POB) script that executes recipes to perform deployments, change orders, and maintenance. Maintained SVN repositories for DevOps environment: automation code and configuration Researched and developed Apache 2.2 SSL proxy front end proof of concept that provides SSL encrypted communications between our Tomcat 7 servers and our Apache front-ends. Developed BASH scripts to redact sensitive data from Apache access and error logs using a sed expression, deploy WAR files to environments in parallel. Ensured idempotentcy of KRFS DevOps BASH scripts. Ported Linux BASH scripts to work with Solaris 10 ultimately contributing ideas and code to make Remoto-It automation tool work more reliably with Solaris environments. Automated deployment of all resources related to my work as the Lead Python Developer. Created system services to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 servers to control execution of key portions of the Customer360 project. Managed Amazon Web Services for the Customer360 project including configuration and deployment of all required infrastructure, administrative tasks, and budgeting
With over a decade in the software industry, I have helped startups launch their first product, assisted FTSE100 enterprises with digital transformation, been a part of the fintech boom, and helped particle accelerators cool down. I love creating scalable back ends and I am an expert in crafting modern and performant mobile, web, and desktop apps. I've been using Laravel frameworks for web development , I'm also very capable of working on a more traditional stack using WordPress, Drupal or CodeIgniter.I have broad experience in Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP / Perl. (Also known as the LAMP stack.) I adhere to industry best practices, and bring to your projects the disciplines of MVC framework design patterns such as CodeIgniter in PHP, Git version control, and project management systems such as Jira, Unfuddle, and Trac.
