Experience

Kinective

Create and manage cloud infrastructure and software, OS configuration and deployment, databases and internal software development tools
Create and deploy internal software stack to cloud and on-prem environments
Assist software development team with software, database, and network configuration

Contributed to the development of two major services: the Marketplace Project and the Certificate-Based Resource Principal Service, both critical to OCI’s strategic initiatives.
Designed and implemented numerous RESTful API endpoints to support scalable service operations.
Utilized Java and Python for backend service development and Terraform for infrastructure as code, enabling reliable deployment and management of OCI resources.
Developed and integrated detailed service metrics and alarms for enhanced observability and monitoring using Prometheus. Created subsequent dashboards in Grafana to track metrics.
Authored internal documentation to support service adoption, maintenance, and onboarding using Confluence and runbooks.
Provided on call support every 2 months on a rotational basis supporting production regions and users.
Participated in deployment rotation to release latest code to development, integration, and production regions using Shepherd.
Agile experience includes participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
Skilled in using Jira for Agile project management, including managing backlogs, sprints, and issue tracking.

Constructed a capacity monitoring program utilizing Python to collect ZFSSA analytics data.
Used Agile methodology to create and complete stories in Jira for each sprint.
Demonstrated results to executive leadership using PowerPoint that was implemented into current operations.
Initialized replication metrics using gauges and pushed those metrics to Prometheus.
Used Grafana to create a dashboard of all data collected.