Resume

Skills and technologies

golang go apache linux docker command-line php find grep ansible git model-m-keyboard tmux firefox large-phones small-notebooks postgresql debian bind vim techno-music kubernetes

Experience

October 2023 - Current Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
GoDaddy

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GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company. As of 2023, GoDaddy is the world’s fifth largest web host by market share.

  • Build REST APIs using Go
  • Interact with AWS



June 2022 - October 2023 Software Engineer (Remote)
Linksoft-Global

Go Kubernetes REST API design HTTP Postgres git Bash scripts nginx

Linksoft-Global is a startup in stealth mode.

  • Build platform using Go, and other tools.



April 2020 - June 2022 Software Engineer (Remote)
Apple Inc

Go Kubernetes REST API design HTTP Postgres curl Bash scripts OpenAPI Spec

Apple is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

  • Build REST APIs using Go and deploying to Kubernetes.



October 2018 - March 2020 Technical Solutions Engineer (Remote)
Kong Inc

Kong API Gateway Docker Postgres Kubernetes REST HTTP curl Terraform Shell Pods Microservices Architecture Deployments and Services

Kong is a San Francisco based startup, who’s Gateway software enables large enterprises flexibility and maturity in managing API Mircorservices and Service Mesh solutions.

  • Work hands on with enterprise customers and build out, highly available Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Create Docker configurations for multi-node API Gateway infrastructure
  • Communicate effectively with customer’s business and technical contacts, and internal and external business resources
  • Analyze and identify solutions for customers based on their unique infrastructure, including Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, On-Prem, Redhat, Docker, and many others



April 2017 - October 2018 Enterprise Customer Success Engineer (Remote)
Kong Inc (née Mashape)

Kong API Gateway Docker Postgres Kubernetes REST HTTP curl Lua Shell Microservices Architecture

Kong is a San Francisco based startup, who’s Gateway software enables large enterprises flexibility and maturity in managing API Mircorservices and Service Mesh solutions.

  • Advise enterprise customers on architecture, configuration, and troubleshooting Microservice API
  • Work with customer’s problem solve infrastructure architecture when integrating Kong Gateway
  • Coordiante with customers on production infrastructure for running Microservices at scale
  • Created Kong Docker Compose tool to automate local environment testing
  • Self manage time and resource allocation to achieve efficient results in a fast paced Silicon Vally funded startup
  • Communicate effectively with team members using Slack, email, and video calls



August 2015 - April 2017 Customer Success Engineer (Remote)
Iron.io

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Iron.io is a San Francisco based cloud infrastructure company, who’s Serverless Application Platform empowers enterprise customers to scale their Docker-based workloads on cloud, public, private, or on-premises hosting solutions.

  • Assist customers with production issues inherent in running Docker at scale
  • Manage enterprise customer’s technical needs; Turner/CNN, Whole Foods, GoPro
  • Troubleshoot customer’s custom code running in Docker containers; Go, Python, PHP, Node
  • Work with customers to architect application patterns with Docker and Message Queues
  • Created Slack-Bot tools in Go, to reduce the time to LIVE for cluster creation
  • Created Python utilities for internal DevOps use, increasing effecency and team speed
  • Work with cross-functional teams, Engineering and DevOps, on product roadmap
  • Run on site enterprise customer training/scrum sessions
  • Communicate effectively with team members using Slack, email, and video calls



July 2014 - July 2015 Senior Web Programmer
Doe-Anderson

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Doe-Anderson is a member of the “big three” advertising firms in Louisville; they are one of the oldest agencies in America, being founded in 1915.

  • Built custom Wordpress themes and plugins
  • Google Maps API Wordpress integration
  • Capistrano server build and deployment
  • Migrated data from MSSQL to MySQL to Postgres
  • Custom Lua scripts for upsert, and other logic, for Postgres 9.4
  • Normalized and cleaned database data



April 2011 - July 2014 Web Programmer
Power Creative

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Power Creative is a member of the “big three” advertising firms in Louisville, with ~150 employees and millions of dollars per year in billings.

  • Built web application using PHP frameworks, Slim, Twig, et al
  • Custom WordPress plugin development
  • Responsive CSS websites with Bootstrap and raw HTML/CSS.
  • Maintain legacy PHP websites
  • Google Maps API Wordpress integration
  • Built custom Javascript web based tools
  • Technical lead in strategic client meetings



October 2006 - April 2011 Web Developer
University of Louisville

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UofL was founded in 1798; with more than 20,000 students it is the largest university in Louisville.

  • UofL homepage refresh, strategy and direction, UI/UX, HTML5, CSS, PHP
  • Maintained websites for the Development Office and Alumni Relations
  • Plone CMS custom theme development
  • Develop interactive sites using PHP
  • Wireframes, and UI/UX, with Basalmiq

Awards:

  • LGDA 100 Show, Gold; UofL Homepage



November 2008 - March 2015 Programmer
Freelance, various clients

php apache bind linux git vim liquid wordpress

  • Develop HTML5 websites from Photoshop documents
  • WordPress, custom PHP plugins, custom themes.
  • Shopify, store setup and admin, custom themes using Liquid templating language
  • Manage client interactions with technology providers



September 2003 - October 2006 Tier 2 Technical Support Specialist
Iglou Internet

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Iglou was the Louisville’s first Internet Service Provider when it was founded in 1989. It continues to offers dial-up and DSL Internet connections, as well as a variety of web hosting and co-location services.

  • Worked escalated critical ISP connection issues
  • Website troubleshooting and management, Apache, HTML, DNS, PHP
  • Managed customer domain name registrations via tucows
  • Liaison to Bellsouth and Alltel (telcos)



August 1999 - May 2001 Teaching Assistant, Web Development
University of Louisville

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UofL was founded in 1798; with more than 20,000 students it is the largest university in Louisville.

  • Tutored students in web coding, networking fundamentals, & Internet skills
  • Administered Macintosh Lab, MacOS 8
  • Linux m68k admin; Apache, Perl

Education

Bachelor of Arts & Science University of Louisville

Public Repositories

These repositories are ones I have created or contributed to.

oui is a repositories of common commands and one liners that I use infrequently enough to remember, but still need.

note is a command line note templating tool; that makes life easier to take text based notes.

Writing

Here is a sampling of blog posts I have written. I chose these for their popularity, or because I enjoy the writing itself. Comb through my blog’s archive for even more writing examples.

A gentle introduction to Golang Modules I review the new Golang Modules that was introduced in vgo, and highlight points to be aware of when getting started.

Golang, Marshal and Unmarshal JSON with time and URL data Howto document on custom unmarshaling functionality for time and URLs.

Building Go projects with gb A look at Dave Cheney’s released build and dependency management tool for Go.

golang: My introduction to the Go programming language A series of thoughts about my first foray into using Go.

golang vs PHP An early comparison of Go and PHP.

Good Process A good process saves us from ourselves.

Programming is terrible so learn to enjoy it I ran across an anonymous opinion piece on how programming is terrible. It was posted a while ago, but it resonated with my own journey through programming. From when I was young and nothing was…

Peak Design Everyday Messenger Review I hold strong opinions about backpacks and laptop bags, and sometimes I blog about them.

Involvement

Tools

First Computer: NEC mini-tower with Windows95 16MB of RAM, later upgraded to 32MB

Favorite Editor: NeoVim, the more I use it the harder it is to leave.