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Jayden

DevOps Developer
  Canada (-5:00)      English, Mandarin, French

 

Skilled DevOps engineer with experience in networking and programming. As Systems Administrator at Brainsmiths Labs, set up and managed 15+ Windows servers. Wrote scripts to automate system updates. Worked closely with vendors to slash company costs by 25%. Dedicated to optimization, experienced DevOps Engineer understands the melding of operations and development to quickly deliver code to customers. Has experience with the Cloud and monitoring processes, as well as DevOps development in Windows, Mac and Linux systems.Brings a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and experience working as a DevOps Engineer since shortly after the concept was introduced.

DevOps Engineering Experience:

  • Set up and managed 15+ Windows 2008 servers.
  • Wrote Ansible scripts to automatically update system components, saving 30% admin time.
  • Cut company costs 20% through aggressive vendor management.
  • Assisted with refining the Software Development Life Cycle to fit system needs.

EMPLOYMENT

DevOps Developer

Brainsmiths Labs | April 2017 - Present
Worked within the Cloud for integration processes. Performed DevOps for Linux, Mac and Windows platforms. Focused on automation and integration. Monitored developed applications and fixed bugs. Wrote code and designed continual updates. Completed load and performance testing of extremely complex systems.

DevOps Developer

Wells Fargo| Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
Used PowerShell for DevOps in Windows-based systems. Focused on automation, integration, monitoring and configuration management. Utilised SQL database systems. Completed load balancing and proxying of systems, servers and components. Relied on solid systems network stack experience.

DevOps Developer

Netsmart Technologies, Inc. | Mar 2013 - Jan 2016
Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Octopus Deploy and PowerShell. Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling.

DevOps Developer

Accenture | Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
Design and develop continuous deployment pipeline, integrating Test-Kitchen, Vagrant, Git , Jenkins and Chef across geographically separated hosting zones in AWS, Azure and Google compute. Developed automation and deployment utilities using Ruby, Bash, Powershell, Python and Rundeck. Designed and developed automated deployment and scaling processes based on Vagrant and Chef for a wide range of server types and application tiers, including Elasticsearch, and Zend PHP and IIS Clusters.

Hadoop Administrator/Devops Engineer

IBM | Jan 2008 - Dec 2011
The project is to setup a platform for migrating and analyzing clickstream data from Comcast devices to HDFS and downstream requirements. Expertise with MapR M3 Edition, M5 and M7 enterprise editions and using Pig, Hive, HCatalog, Flume, Sqoop, HBase, and MapR Control System; monitored cluster using tools (Ganglia and Nagios).

EXPERTISE

Ruby 11 years experience

Experience as a full stack developer working in Ruby/Rails with with at least 11+ years working on external commercial websites. In depth knowledge of Ruby, its idioms, mechanisms, and how best to build applications.

Python 10 years experience

Automated deployment of all resources related to my work as the Lead Python Developer.

Linux 11 years experience

Ported Linux BASH scripts to work with Solaris 10 ultimately contributing ideas and code to make Remoto-It automation tool work more reliably with Solaris environments.

CodeCommit 10 years experience

AWS CodeCommit is a cloud-based repository management system for storing managed assets like source code, binary files, and documents. It offers all the main features like versioning, tagging, branching, Pull, Push, Merge etc. of any famous code repository management system like GitHub and BitBucket.

GIT 11 years experience

Instead of git i can have any other respositories for DevOps like VSTS, TFS etc. DevOps requirement is just to have respository which hold latest code that could be anything as per company standards.

REVIEWS

Jayden

Jayden

Sep 2, 2017

Jayden is knowledgeable, flexible, and accomodating. He is open and honest when he does not possess some or all skills required to complete a task, and is willing to dive in to learn new skills as needed. Overall an ideal team member.

Patricia Berry

Patricia Berry

Dec 8, 2018

Working with Jayden was great and his expertise in DevOps was very helpful for our team. He was good at communication and working collaboratively.

Veronica Benitez

Veronica Benitez

Dec 2, 2018

Jayden is an excellent system administration, He understood the problem very fast and was able to fix it in few hours. He is always available for any urgent work and his quality is super good. He met all deadlines, and his skills were reasonably strong.

POSTS

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