• Self-motivated Developer, Administrator, and Architect with 15 years of experience in systems development, interface design, database administration, computer networking, and server administration • Established history of designing and implementing successful technical systems and processes • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Proven ability to abstract complex problems and systems into more easily managed components • Aptitude for addressing current problems while maintaining a clear vision of how the solution fits into the company's Big Picture Specialties: AWS Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Automated Infrastructure Provisioning, Automated Software Deployment, Network telemetry, tool and infrastructure design, backoffice processes and interfaces

Systems Architect @ From May 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Advisory Engineer for AWS Cloud @ • Developed company-wide Best Practices for AWS-based project development and deployment. • Designed and helped develop a dev toolchain including a Ruby gem to orchestrate Blue/Green deployments of multi-component projects using AWS CloudFormation templates. • Designed and developed a Manheim-specific companion gem to manage AWS deployment settings and reduce boilerplate in CloudFormation templates, allowing dev teams to deploy projects faster and more consistently. • Designed Jenkins continuous integration/deployment pipelines that include phases for unit tests, functional tests, deploying an ad hoc integration environment, integration tests, deploying to UAT, and deploying to Production. • Mentored internal dev teams on AWS-related concepts, services, deployment strategies, security, costing strategies, and high-availability topology design. • In charge of Manheim’s SSO Proof of Concept with Okta to allow Manheim personnel to access the AWS console and related services (Loggly, Cloudabilty, Mingle, GitHub Enterprise) with AD-based federated users. From September 2013 to April 2014 (8 months) AtlantaSenior Software Engineer @ • Worked for three years on the Online Vehicle Exchange (OVE) dev team doing paired Ruby on Rails programming in an Agile, TDD-focused environment. • Was instrumental in migrating from several hundred unique SuSE Linux servers to ~600 uniformly-provisioned RedHat Enterprise Linux servers built using Kickstart and Puppet. Used RPMBuild and associated tools to buildcustom RPMs and modify third-party RPMs to fit Manheim’s needs • Rewrote Manheim’s Kickstart scripts and provisioning procedures to make our ‘bare metal to running server’ process efficient, streamlined, reliable, and easy, dropping the time to launch a new OVE environment from 2 weeks to less than 2 days. This effort included setting up a Puppet server and dashboard, developing extensive Puppet manifests that include custom Factor facts, Puppet types, and Puppet providers, designing manifest development workflows, modifying deployment workflows to incorporate Puppet into the deployment process and CI pipelines • Led the effort to transition all Git repositories used by all development teams in Manheim’s Engineering organization from Git to our in-house instance of GitHub Enterprise. This included actually moving the repos, rethinking our workflows, working with our IT organization to set up LDAP authentication, implementing GitHub post-receive callbacks to check out codebases for CI pipelines, and developing scripts and shell functions to help shift our developers from role accounts to user accounts for commits and pushes From November 2007 to September 2013 (5 years 11 months) Senior Developer @ Architected and developed tools to help many groups within Cox manage and grow our infrastructure as a national Internet provider. From March 2001 to October 2007 (6 years 8 months) Developer @ Acted as the primary designer and author for the web-based front-ends of our internal tools. My main project at NetRail was a complete 'ground-up' redesign of our OSS system including the database design, a PL/SQL API layer for inter-application communications, and the web-based GUI. From January 2000 to October 2000 (10 months) Owner @ Responsible for all aspects of business including getting new accounts and web site design, production, hosting, and maintenance as well as setup and operation of a Linux-based web server. From May 1996 to June 1999 (3 years 2 months)

Computer Engineering @ University of Central Florida From 1993 to 1995 Rob Sweet is skilled in: Network Administration, Web Applications, Management, Agile Methodologies, Enterprise Software, Databases, Architectures, Networking, Linux, Data Warehousing, PL/SQL, Git, Cloud Computing, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Scrum, Unix, Agile Project Management