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Associate Technical Director @ Noble Studios | AWS Certified Solutions Architect. 20+ years building with Ruby/Rails, WordPress, PHP/Laravel, and DevOps technologies.
With over two decades of experience in web development and infrastructure I have built a career around fixing and improving performance, streamlining devleopment processes, and delivering performant web experiences. I consider myself a generalist in this space. I am equally comfortable whether it is frontend development for marketing websites, building web applications to support business operations, to designing, building, and maintaining highly availablable, scalable infrastructure for growing ecommerce startups.
I resonate deeply with DevOps philosophy and try to apply the principles at all aspects of my work.
Currently I am an Associate Technical Director at Noble Studios where I am embarking on learning an entirely new skillset, leadership. My day to day also includes architecting solutions, grow our engineering staff, and build advanced web solutions using PHP and WordPress.
Passionate about creating good and usable processes, (lower case "a") agile transformations, and maintaining web infrastructure. Dedicated to empowering teams and organizations to achieve operational efficiency and exceptional digital experiences.
Experience
Associate Technical Director
As Associate Technical Director, I lead engineering direction and team development.
I partner with senior leadership to define agency strategy and improve delivery pipelines.
I also mentor engineers, refine processes, and create tools that make shipping more reliable and less stressful.
Independent Contractor
Senior DevOps Engineer
Implemented a modern CI/CD pipeline, championed continuous delivery engineering practices, and containerized the software stack. We transitioned from performing from high-risk multi-hour deployments, to low-risk sub 1 hour deployments. As a result releases are more stable, the mean time to recovery has been greatly reduced, and the team is delivering stable code daily.
Migrated service infrastructure to a new provider (AWS) with minimal disruption and effectively zero downtime.
The migration away from virtualization and into a container based environment has improved the ability for teams to iterate and release code.
Developed tool chain used by the engineers and the CI/CD pipeline to build, test, and deploy production quality images. The tools developed have greatly reduced on-boarding time for new engineers onto the project.
Senior Web Developer
Partner / Developer
Senior Developer / Graphic Designer
Web Developer
Web Developer
Licenses and Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Issued Mar 2019
Credential ID TJBWQRPCBMQQQJG4
Optimizely Platform Certification
Optimizely