For 10 years I’ve been:
Rapidly building MVP’s to prove market viability. Relentlessly building API’s and architecting infrastructure for massive scale and global reach. Automating deployments and developing tools to make other engineers’ work go even farther. Giving back through IT and webdev support for elderly and veterans. Contributing to open source projects. Building skills in Art, Botany, Chemistry, and Health. Always looking to get my hands dirty with innovative technologies.
Jan 2020 - June 2021, Irvine, CA
I led our DevOps, SysAdmin, and API efforts:
Deployed and maintained VPN server applications to more than 100 countries using Ansible. Additional custom tooling was created to help facilitate logging, metrics gathering, security/access, lifecycle management, etc. in mostly Python and GoLang. I architected and implemented CI/CD pipelines for client apps, server apps, and APIs.
Sept 2017 - May 2019, Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties
In affiliation with MSP’s while providing consultation for private clients. This included architecting enterprise networks, deploying complex sets of integrated software utilities, and automating internal operations. I also maintained, secured, and audited existing infrastructures, networks, and applications. These clients ranged from teams of 5 to campuses and offices with 500+ employees. I personally worked with Windows, Unix, and MacOS network environments in addition to engineering custom implementations for each client’s workflow. I take pride in this experience learning from many different fast paced industries, especially my work supporting homes and programs for people getting help with substance addictions. Many of my clients were schools and churches that required the highest levels of security, privacy, and end user experience. During this time, I secured, automated, and supported 100+ companies and their networks. I still help a few clients with specific tasks or projects when they reach out from time to time.
August 2016 - May 2017, Irvine, CA
Architected global elastic cloud infrastructure to dynamically spin up resources across a disparate set of cloud providers using Digital Ocean, AWS, a number of other providers, KVM virtualization, Ansible, PHP, and Python. Implemented a global monitoring and metrics system to control the dynamic allocation and deallocation of cloud resources. Team management through Atlassian tools, ensuring best workflow and deployments. Built a database and API system to allow communication across the entire infrastructure using Cloudant, SQL, and Lumen. IOS/Android software development for the UI/UX implementation of the consumer software in Swift/Objective C/Inline C/Java. Core library work to facilitate actual network and security communication services using C.
August 2015 - August 2016, Irvine, CA
Staminus was a global provider of cyber security through hybrid DDoS mitigation service utilizing cloud and on-premises hardware appliances. I architected and engineered several aspects of the network, maintained and added to existing appliance softwares, provided enterprise customers with support, and built custom implementations for companies such as Advania, Huawei, and Neverfail. I regularly worked with PHP, and spent a lot of time with Juniper and Cisco hardware. A lot of my experience involved making live fixes and security implementations while under high pressure.
Some things I used and performed from day to day were:
I was also the main tech for trips to One Wilshire DataCenter for maintenance and emergency fixes at our PoP there. During the acquisition process, I met with stakeholders from other companies for planning and technical discussion, commonly travelling to the MaxCDN office in LA, as well as attending/representing at trade shows and events such as NANOG.
Intreppid was Staminus’s child company designed for renting out unused dedicated machine space in our datacenter. The website and panel were run using WHMCS. The operations team I managed also handled tickets and support for Intreppid. I engineered backend software for automation and deployments. I also maintained and added features weekly to our in house ticketing system and staff portal. (Most technical operations were performed through the staff/admin panel, which was designed and operated in Smarty/PHP and hooked directly into the API I implemented to control the backend aspects of the network (PHP/C/Bash).
Staminus has developed and currently maintains its own global patented scrubbing technology, scrubbing centers, and network backbone across the world.
Staminus was acquired in 2016 for 12x revenue by StackPath, a global cyber security firm with nearly $200M in funding. After this, I worked with Atlassian tools and gained more experience working on networks designed for CDN, VPN, DNS, and application layer security.
2013 - May 2015, Huntington Beach, CA
I founded this company while attending high school. It was personally funded. Ryan Hobbs and I grew our company from 3 to 14 developers and artists within the first year. We worked on two indie titles. Here, I gained experience in leading a team, marketing, SEO, basic content creation and UI design, 3D Modeling, and Unreal Engine 4.
Creates a linux group of users synced to your Google Workspace users and automatically imports their public SSH keys.
Large Image Uploading to S3 directly from the clipboard for easy sharing
Large image resizing directly from the clipboard for easy sharing
PHP Digital Ocean API for one click provisioning of droplets (Deprecated)
A multiplayer horror game that I contributed to the alpha release. The game was later published on Steam as unfinished and became a stale project.
A single player horror game that I contributed to the alpha release. The game was never fully released and became a stale project.
Recreation and additions to one of my favorite games StickRPG by XGEN Studios as an example use case for JTwoD engine.
