Four years experience implementing Puppet Open Source / Enterprise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) from medium to 1500+ node deployments. Utilizing mostly, EC2 suite, S3, Direct-Connect, RDS, SNS, CloudFront and IAM. Engineered, architected, developed and debugged cases related to development, application deployments and big data scenarios. Role also entailed engaging with business users, government customers, and c-level staff on results from re-architecting applications, from multiple data centers to AWS.
AWS cloud migrations led/participated in: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), PetFinder.com, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Wounded Wear.
Technical Solutions Engineer @ Engaged with customers and prospects in the private sector mid-atlantic and public sector across the US. Puppet Labs subject matter expert and knowledgeable with integrations with AWS, VMware and Docker. Demoing and conducting proof-of-concepts on full stack deployments with Puppet across enterprise audiences. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Software Developer @ Productivity Engineering Team, focusing on Continuous Delivery for 150 different applications with Docker, Puppet, Jenkins, GRAILS/Python CRUD development. Developing Web Services and CLI tools for Configuration Managers, Developers, Security, and Operations. From November 2014 to March 2015 (5 months) Senior System Engineer @ Develop Data Center automation delivery, started a small team solving problems related to self-service for developers, application deployments, self-healing, and security compliance in an agile environment.
With DevOps and more agile approaches to delivering platforms and products. Support the enablement of infrastructure behavioral changes that result in services with quicker turn around and greater product quality.
Stacks/Tools: Jenkins, Puppet Enterprise, Flask/Gunicorn/NGINX, MySQL, Supervisor, Docker, Fabric, Ruby RSpec, Vagrant, Python, Tomcat/Apache, LocustIO, GlusterFS, Nagios, and Hadoop CDH4,5.
Jenkins: Building OS images, building RPMs with FPM, Puppet testing, promotion, managing yum repositories, code deployment/promotion, trigger remote jobs, Git/SVN checkouts, Jenkins Slaves, and Docker builds. From June 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 6 months) Cloud Engineer (Contractor) @ Versatile DevOps engineer with experience supporting agile development, test, and production across Amazon Web Services, Terremark Cloud and vCloud Director. Engineer open source enterprise solutions and processes to meet the demands of a newly formed Bureau.
Help automated self-service stacks with Puppet open source and custom RPMs:
Zenoss/Zenpacks, OpenVPN, Solr/ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Apache, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, Snort, Jenkins Slaves, SAS, R and MATLAB.
Automated bare-metal, AWS instances, Vagrant boxes and VMware templates via kickstart ISOs, scripts and Puppet. From June 2012 to April 2013 (11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Engineer - I.T. @ Program I.T. lead and Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) for classified development and production infrastructure. Traveled to support labs located in GD-AIS Pittsfield, MA, NUWC Newport, RI and GD-IT Middletown, RI. Managed Databases, VM Hypervisors, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, T3 networks and other middleware. Helped with kernel tuning and builds to meet Government requirements. Delivered infrastructure across nine products and collaborated with 26 developers on delivering development resources to multi-million dollar defense programs. From August 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 11 months) Pittsfield, Massachusetts AreaInformation Systems Technician (E-5) @ While aboard USS MITSCHER (DDG-57) led a team of eight personnel responsible for configuring, and reliability of high-available production systems with a 99.999% uptime SLA. Automating critical vulnerability patches across enterprise wide hardware and software, security audits and implementing new shipboard technologies.
Lead systems administrators for IP PBX, Mail, Directory Services, Storage,Virtual Blades, Cisco Routers/Switches and encryption devices that interface with LAN/WAN segments. Managed integrated SCO UNIX, Solaris 10, HP-UX 9, Windows 2003 and RHEL 5 clustered applications. From July 2006 to July 2010 (4 years 1 month) Norfolk, Virginia Area
Tim Marcinowski is skilled in: Unix, VMware, Cloud Computing, Information Assurance, Linux, Red Hat Linux, Shell Scripting, Network Security, Systems Engineering, Puppet, Configuration Management, Cloud Security, Military, Project Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS)