20 years experience in SaaS, now immersed in cloud-based PaaS for IoT. Experienced with implementing opensource. 3 years managing production environments in Azure. Specialties: IoT, PaaS, SaaS, Application Infrastructure, Systems Integration, Systems Administration & Deployment, Azure/Azure Networking, Azure DevOps, Terraform Cloud, Firewalls & Load Balancers, Windows Server, Redhat, Splunk, Ubuntu, Bash, Cloud Native Serverless, Performance Monitoring, Apache, IIS, Web Application Development I have worked in an operational capacity for small and large/global teams, serving infrastructure on multiple continents. I have played a principal role in delivering and developing stable web applications and their database infrastructure from the ground floor. I have integrated web applications with internal, backend systems and databases as well as third party software vendors. I have created new systems processes and automation to improve upon existing business technology goals and projects. I have been in charge of reviewing, researching and purchasing new software and hardware for development platforms as well as for staff end users. I have integrated, managed and deployed source control where there was none. And I have taken part in writing proposals, producing infrastructure diagrams, process documentation, and SOWs for clients. I have been involved with interviewing and hiring staff, mentoring / consulting developers, and training Cloud Engineers. Currently, I am leading an Ops team in charge of all Production environments in Azure. Terraform and Azure DevOps in our employ for CI/CD. We are running serverless APIs as an IoT Platform serving over 1.5 million messages a day. Our Azure infrastructure spans nodejs & python based functions, ADX, SQL Server, API Mgmt, Cosmos, IoT Central, IoTHub, VMs, & Event Grids (just to name a few). I am well versed in complex Azure networking, high volume messaging, Internal Performance/Ops monitoring utilizing Splunk & OpsGenie, as well as troubleshooting API traffic. We support highly available systems utilizing cutting edge tech in Azure. I helped stand up Infra in Azure to solve IoT device mgmt, provisioning, egress data to third parties and supporting D2C/C2D communications long before the days of IoT Central.
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