Resume — J

Tech is Easy. People are Hard.

By its very nature, DevOps is extraordinarily dynamic. The name of the game is knowing what tools exist and how to fuse the right tools into the optimal solution for a specific problem. These are a handful of my go-to's, but for each named here, there most likely exists many alternatives, each used individually in special circumstances.

THE STACK

Here and there

Operator Framework
Python | Golang

All Day Long

AWS | GCP
Tekton | Codefresh
Kubernetes | EKS | GKE | OpenShift
PagerDuty
Prometheus | Grafana
Datadog | ThousandEyes
JetBrains Suite
GitHub
Vault | Consul | Packer
Docker | Podman | CRI-O
Redis | Elasticsearch
Elasticache | RDS
NGINX | HAProxy | Envoy
RHEL CoreOS | Amazon Linux 2 | Fedora
Commodity Hardware | Dell | HP
Platform Hybridization
Agile Methodology | Scrum | Kanban

WORK

VP of Platform :: Founding Member

Skyramp, San Francisco, CA, Jul 2022 - Present

Engineering Advisor :: Platform Architecture & DevEx

Earnin, Palo Alto, CA, May 2021 - Jul 2022

Engineering Leadership :: Developer Platform & SRE

Caffeine, Redwood City, CA, Apr 2019 - May 2021

Complete Developer Platform overhaul to empower speed, quality, and site reliability. From the implementation of end to end observability solutions to full-scale performance testing to realizing a complete Kubernetes & OpenShift transformation; all driven by a foundational focus on developer empowerment and advocacy.

Sr Systems Development Engineer :: Developer Experience

Twitch :: AWS, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2016 - Apr 2019

Went to lunch with an old friend, ended up with a new career. From tooling and automation for a global bare metal estate of more than ten thousand nodes to designing and building the procedures, pipelines, and platforms that run and support Twitch's newest product, Extensions. At Twitch, I work across many organizations creating solutions for engineers internal and external alike.

Principal DevOps :: Head of Technical Operations

Vera Security, Palo Alto, CA, Oct 2015 - Jan 2017

Define and implement DevOps ideologies, culture, and practices in a bleeding edge, last mile file security solution startup. Create the software platforms for on-premise installation of the Vera stack in the Fortune 50. Overhaul source code management in alignment with Agile methodologies and best practices. Transform all infrastructure into Docker, all running in AWS. Build and lead a team of effective DevOps engineers.

Devops Architect and Consultant

ClickTime, San Francisco, CA, Sept 2014 - Mar 2016

DevOps Architecture, Culture, and Site Reliability. Working with the dev team to build all the things responsible for building and delivering our application. Responsible for application uptime and reliability. Constantly evolving my tool belt, learning at least one completely new technology/service/tool each and every day. In full rotation at the moment are CoreOS, Jenkins, Selenium, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Gitlab, and the list goes on. Essentially a one man, full-stack DevOps department.

Chief Technology Officer

J3 Resources, Inc., Houston, TX, Jan 2001 - Jun 2016

Family owned, multi-national environmental laboratory. Ground up information systems architecture design and implementation from business inception. ISO/NVLAP compliant, litigation worthy solutions due to the heavy information nature of the business. Paper chains of custody come in with samples, tests are run, compliant reports go out.

SiteMinder Engineer

CA Technologies, San Jose, CA, Oct 2012 - Sept 2014

SiteMinder is the software that protects the majority of the Fortune 500's web applications. Worked with the Federated Identities Engineering Team, an incredibly talented group of engineers who served as the last line of defense towards rectifying severity 1, high profile issues before deploying red teams in the field. Served as a point of contact between management and the engineers to help deflect unnecessary interruptions.

Owner/Founder

PoyeNetLabs, Global, Jan 2003 - Sept 2012

What started out as a GeekSquad-esque like service, rapidly transformed into consulting services for numerous government agencies and enterprise specialized in what was eventually termed, "the impossible deployment".

Staff Research Associate & Teaching Assistant

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, Sept 2007 - Dec 2009

Worked with a brilliant team to engineer and run trials on a synthetic protein tied to nano-gold markers, ultimately providing for ample early warning of Alzheimer's disease via MRI. Teaching assistant for General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physical Chemistry.