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DevOps Engineer @ GoPro Worked on GoPro Cloud service and website infrastructure: DevOps, Software Engineer, Infrastructure Tools, Python, Bash, Nagios, Jenkins, CircleCI, Tech Documentation and run books, Linux, Monitoring and Graphing, Docker, Nginx, Ansible, New Relic, AWS, EC2, ELB, CloudFront, S3, Architecture Tools, Problem Solving, Teaching, Ruby, Helping with issues, technical research and prioritization of issues, deployments, organizing information and resources, deployment scripts and process, infrastructure cost analysis. Helping developers with roadblocks, identify, research and help fix bugs and improve the quality of the customer facing website and many other critical systems. From December 2014 to April 2016 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco, CADevOps Engineer @ DropThought Worked on the infrastructure for DropThought feedback system. Created AWS tools, auto backup automation and testing, database structure docs, server processes and standards for the company and created a dynamic monitoring and graphing tools for alerting and trend analysis. Also created a business intelligence program which analyzed daily, weekly and monthly feedback activity to find spikes, trends, business opportunities and graphed the data with D3 for insight into scaling the infrastructure and for visibility in company activity. Also worked on administrating and growing the current infrastructure and managing servers, deployments, security and scaling the website. Tech: Linux, Development, Operations, Auto Scale, AWS, Automation, Python, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, D3, Puppet, Ansible, Redis, Cloud Computing, enabling and educating programmers, Linode, Rackspace, Ubuntu Linux, APIs, DevOps tools, technical documentation, auto deployments, release procedures, NoSQL, SQL, Wordpress, Drupal, debugging and deploying the software stack, sharing knowledge, building business logic documentation, teaching, run books and tech documentation. From July 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 6 months) Santa Clara, CAServer Engineer @ Apple Worked two contract positions at Apple. One was working on a team developing a global scale inventory system for all the retail stores as a Server Engineer then moved into the IT group working on a global communications systems within Apple as a System Administrator. Worked on different monitoring systems and improved network and system monitoring, upgraded and migrated Nagios, used and improved virtual machine tools, created custom health checks for distributed system and deployed new releases. Tech: UNIX/Linux scripting, Bash, Perl, Python, virtual machine technology, system administration From May 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 2 months) Cupertino, CAService Engineer @ Yahoo Worked as a contract Service Engineer working on a Hadoop advertising system related to Yahoo! Search. Tech: Perl, Bash, Cluster Management, Hadoop, Search Clusters, Crawlers, Indexers, Big Data, Server Troubleshooting, Operation at Scale, Red Hat Linux, Custom Nagios Plugins, Open Source. Managed thousands of search and advertising servers and wrote documentation and run books for issues and tasks. From October 2011 to May 2012 (8 months) Sunnyvale, CASoftware Developer, Linux System Admin @ AppointmentPlus Worked as a Software Developer, Linux System Admin for an online appointment setting software. Tech: PHP, MySQL, Bash, Apache, Linux, Red Hat Linux, LAMP, SVN, Debian, Cloud Servers, Rack Servers, Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2, HTML, AJAX, CSS, Perl, JSON, XML, on call, last level tech support, Senior Software Developer, System Administrator. The company has grown exponentially for over 5 years, was hired very early on as the programmer, sysadmin, debugging, QA and even some support work. Now my original job is run by at least 3 different departments of course in a different capacity than before. From October 2007 to September 2011 (4 years) Scottsdale, AZSystem Analyst @ Desert Schools Federal Credit Union Worked on the back office mainframe system for a credit union. Tech: Mainframe Operator, Administrator, Software Developer, POSIX compliant HP mainframe. ran ACH deposits, tape backups, spool printing and learned the inner components of the credit union software to troubleshoot tickets, was on pager rotation for the mainframe, learned MPE Shell, mainframe languages, financial software and mainframe technology. I troubleshot cash dispense machines and generally keep things running by fixing issues that arise. I programmed automation and monitoring on ACH and external systems to the mainframe. From January 2005 to October 2007 (2 years 10 months) Tempe, AZProgrammer @ TeleTracker Software Worked at a Programmer doing bug fix and updated the companies code base that is used to manage cell phone companies sales and inventory. I upgraded different program components for merchant, accounting and sales tracking. I also debugged many of the existing reports and application issues. I identified database issues and coordinated with the database engineer and lead programmer to add new features and modifications to existing reports. From June 2004 to January 2005 (8 months) Phoenix, AZTechnical Analyst @ Discover Card Worked at Discover Card for six years, started on the support / phone and moved into technical role. I designed and implemented reports for the collections center using Access, Excel, and Crystal Reports and distributed them across the intranet for the Phoenix call center. I also completed a training manual for my position. I used Lotus Notes, Mainframe/CICS and troubleshot credit card machines in my daily job. I started on the phone and worked in the marketing, merchant, collections, and sales centers. From November 1997 to June 2004 (6 years 8 months) Phoenix, AZSoftware Engineer, DevOps @ ImgIdea ImgIdea is an open source creative hobby and education project for building applications and websites as well as learning, teaching and sharing technology ideas. Developed many different applications for Web, DevOps, Audio, Visual, Graphics for Musicians, Artists, Educators and Creative Professionals. Created a project called System Capture to capture system information in the event of a system spike. Also created Ansible bootstrap examples to teach automation with Python. Created a online, Python and Java open source math flash card application for memorizing and education. Created a social community music site for like minded musicians to share original music, share ideas and comments with other musicians and collaborate. Tech: Python, Go, Bash, Ansible, Docker, C++, Java, PHP7, MySQL, Linux, Apache, Javascript, Icinga, D3.js, Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, Rackspace, Google Cloud, Redis, HTML, CSS, Git, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Educator. Formally called Your Idea Space. Projects: https://www.imgidea.com http://chrisgr.com https://github.com/electronicsleep Sunnyvale, CASr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure @ Roku Inc. Developing Roku's next generation apps / channels infrastructure. Creating self service tools to enable seamless development/deployments and company efficiency: Python, Go, Terraform, Nginx, Gitlab, MySQL, Jenkins, deploy pipelines, ElasticSearch, Docker, Microservices, Java, Groovy, D3.js. I created many useful reusable tools used by many teams within Roku. Created projects for CI/CD infrastructure as code job creation automation using Gitlab/Jenkins Pipelines, Python, Groovy and Jenkins Job Builder so developers can deploy microservices though all environments easily and automatically. Created Python AWS and ElasticSearch tools and automation to monitor infra and applications for errors and important metrics for business critical process as well as index monitoring, advanced error detection, archiving and tuning. Created software and custom libraries for system automation with integration into chat, alerting systems and also developed and enhanced auto scaling and improved back end infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform and Salt. Developing a Go and Java applications for graphing, monitoring, tracking infrastructure events and deployments across the org. Los Gatos, CASite Reliability Engineer @ Apple Worked on iCloud as an SRE: Created Python automation to scale and manage compute infrastructure for data processing and also created and enhanced monitoring and graphing programs. Worked with the data team daily on new deploys, improvements, tuning and monitoring of iCloud systems, networks and services. Tech: Python, Bash, Linux, Docker, DevOps, Splunk, Java deployments, security updates, technical documentation, tools development, monitoring systems, troubleshooting and automation scripts. From April 2016 to July 2017 (1 year 4 months) Sunnyvale, CA