| Phone: | 978-327-1223 |
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| Email: | [email protected] |
| Address: | Salem, Massachusetts |
Building SaaS products on AWS is my core power. My professional identity is rooted in a love for helping others and deriving satisfaction from empowering myself and others to be excellent builders. I am a results-driven professional with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and an unwavering commitment to advancing business objectives. I am expertly skilled in public cloud architecture, product architecture, product delivery, and streaming data engineering within Software-as-a-Service.
I am a passionate free software advocate with a keen interest in AI and an active contributor to the community. I am proficient in Python, TypeScript, and Golang, and I am certified (EMCCAe) as a Cloud Architect.
Areas of Expertise: AWS, Software Development, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Streaming Data Engineering, SaaS, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Free Software, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models.
I have over 12 years of experience in AWS, specializing in Platform Operations, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Migrations, Cost Optimization, DevOps, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning. I am a strong proponent of leveraging cloud-native solutions, preferring managed services over self-hosted options, serverless architectures over provisioned infrastructure, and buying over building when appropriate.
Cloud Architecture: Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Cloud Migrations: Lead and execute complex migrations to AWS, ensuring minimal disruption. Cost Optimization: Develop strategies to reduce AWS costs through resource monitoring and tradeoff analysis. DevOps: Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment processes. Data Engineering: Build and manage streaming data pipelines, data lakes, and analytics solutions. Machine Learning: Train and deploy machine learning models using AWS services.
Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS Storage & Databases: S3, EFS, DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, Neptune Networking: VPC, Route 53, Direct Connect, CloudFront Security & Identity: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Cognito Analytics & Data Processing: Athena, Glue, Redshift, DataFirehose Machine Learning: SageMaker, Comprehend, Rekognition Application Integration: SNS, SQS, Step Functions, EventBridge Management & Monitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, X-Ray
Infrastructure as Code: aws-cdk, CloudFormation, Terraform Configuration Management: Helm, cdk8s, SaltStack CI/CD: GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity SDKs and Libraries: boto3
| Title: | Creator |
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| Location: | Salem Massachusetts |
| Period: | December 2023 - Present |
I developed a chatbot with streaming responses entirely on AWS serverless infrastructure. The goal of Guvnor is to demonstrate personalization and long-term memory by populating and querying a knowledge graph as a RAG method. Guvnor is my personal playground for experimenting with AI and large language models.
- Python, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Large Language Models, Llama Index, LangChain, AWS API Gateway, aws-cdk, Neo4j, Github Actions
| Title: | Lead Engineer |
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| Location: | Cambridge Massachusetts |
| Period: | January 2024 - July 2024 |
Leading the User Experience team, we created innovative services leveraging computer vision for the insurance and contractor industries. I wrote code while mentoring backend and frontend engineers and participated in product discovery and design. Additionally, I led system design, architecture, feature experiments and analysis.
- Python, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, aws-cdk, React, Typescript, Github Actions, Flagsmith, Mixpanel
| Title: | Senior Engineer/Cloud Architect |
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| Location: | Boston Massachusetts |
| Period: | April 2023 - November 2023 |
Key team member in the development of a groundbreaking SaaS platform that addresses data engineering hurdles prevalent within organizations.
- Python, aws-cdk, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Kinesis Streams, Redis
| Title: | Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer |
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| Location: | Boston Massachusetts |
| Period: | February 2018 – April 2023 |
Focused on software delivery, infrastructure, streaming data engineering and architecture for machine learning and data science product teams. Provided mentorship and guidance to DevOps team members.
- aws-cdk, cdk8s, Terraform, ksqlDB, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, Tensorflow Serving, Nodejs, Python, Podman, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, SaltStack, TeamCity, Fedora Linux, GitHub, Gitlab, NewRelic
| Title: | Senior DevOps Engineer |
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| Location: | Farmington Utah |
| Period: | January 2015 – February 2018 |
The founding member of the DevOps team. Served on multiple product teams focusing on platform configuration management, cloud infrastructure, operations and product delivery.
- AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic, SaltStack, TeamCity, Nodejs, .NET, RedHat Linux, Windows Server, GitHub, Python, GoLang, Powershell, Bash, NewRelic, CI/CD, Immutable Infrastructure
| Title: | Cloud Architect |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | May 2014 – January 2015 |
A member of a small team startup creating a novel web service. Focused on AWS infrastructure, operations, platform configuration management and product delivery.
- AWS, Amazon Linux, MongoDB, ITIL, Splunk, Graphite, OpenShift, ManageIQ, SaltStack, Nexus, AppDynamics, GitHub, Jenkins, Tomcat, Apache, Python
| Title: | Support Engineer |
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| Location: | Draper, UT |
| Period: | June 2012 - May 2014 |
A support specialist for EMC products Symmetrix DMX/VMAX20/VMAX40, Avamar, Avamar Extended Retention.
| Title: | Consultant |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | April 2009 - May 2014 |
- Website Administration: Website and database administrator for Logomaker.com with 2,000,000+ users. RHEL, PHP, MySQL, ImageMagick, Amazon AWS, SaltStack.
- Application Development: Migrated and further developed systems from Legacy Manufacturing Solutions for Compax.
- Business Consulting: Worked on special projects including QC documentation and process improvement.
- Application Development: Created and deployed a data entry and analytics application for Utah citizen initiative group Count My Vote. OpenShift Online, Simple PHP Framework.
- Application Development: Created OSS "Utah E-Petition" for two citizen initiatives groups. PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, and some C.
- Public Activism: Assisted in development of legal arguments and technical method for gathering petition signatures electronically. Acted as an expert witness regarding the validity of electronically gathered signatures on citizen initiatives.
| Title: | Partner |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | December 2006 - January 2011 |
- Application Development: Developed business workflow application that managed all activities between US and China offices. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- CIO: Deployed all business applications and systems. CRM, Zimbra, Asterisk, KVM, VMware, Redhat Linux
- Business Operations: Set company goals and objectives, developed and improved operational procedures and methods, created business workflows, and resolved problems.
- Business Development: Investigated new business opportunities, completed competitive analysis, developed new product disciplines. Maintained relationships within the local and global business community.
- Legal: Drafted non-disclosure, service and finance agreements.
- Sales: Managed sales, marketing and customer accounts. Recruited sales staff. Authored marketing materials.
- Sales: Advised customers in sourcing/manufacturing strategy in China and product development
- Sales: Introduced bridge financing product.
- Sales: Negotiated pricing and terms. Calculated duty and delivery paid pricing.
| Title: | Linux Expert |
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| Location: | Provo, UT |
| Period: | September 2005 - December 2006 |
A internal expert on Linux, hired after Novell's purchase of SUSE Linux.
- Developed and deployed remote administration tool for off-network Linux desktops.
- Linux expert for IS&T helpdesk and internal migration team.
- Monitored systems from the network operations center.
- EMC Information Storage and Management (EMCISA)
- EMC Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist (E20-018)
- EMC IT-as-a-Service Expert (EMCCAe)
- The Linux Foundation LF520 – OpenStack Cloud Architecture and Deployment.
| [source] | https://github.com/deuscapturus/resume |