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• Software Engineer, Erias Ventures

  Feb, 2021 - Present

  Big data devops engineer working with large Kubernetes applications and supporting microservices.

  • Situationional Intelligence Services (SIS) - a division of Cryptologic Knowledge Solutions (CKS)

  • Build out and manage multiple Kuberenetes (v1.15+) clusters within three environments, including over 100 nodes.

  • Build out and manage Cassandra (v3.11+) clusters that handle 1.5 billion events per day.

  • Manage the continuous integration and deployment of production level code to various environments with Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Rancher.

  • Implement various open source technologies and even contribute to some of those technologies. Including ArgoCD and CassKop.

  • Automated various processes which increased developer efficiency. Including deployment processes and automated code testings.

  • Research, plan, and develop the project;s low side AWS eVo development environment.

  • Bridge the gap of communication between developers, operations, and management.

• Devops Engineer, Applied Insight (formerly Stratus Solutions)

  Aug, 2019 - Jan, 20211 year 6 months

  Hybrid devops engineer with a focus in full-stack development and automation.

  • Built out automation tools including various GitLab CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment.

  • Built Docker images and containers utilizing Amazon ECS/ECR.

  • Maintained project’s infrastructure including various AWS resources, with the help of Terraform.

  • Built and maintained client’s nodes/express web application.

  • Rebuilt front-end in React, built out backend api to interact with AWS Cognito.

• Software Engineer, Applied Insight (formerly Stratus Solutions)

  Sep, 2018 - Aug, 201911 months

  Software engineer with a focus on full-stack development.

  • Built, enhanced, and maintained in house web applications. Including Stratus Solutions private employee dashboard.

  • Managed AWS resources for dynamic web applications including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3.

  • Assisted with supporting on premise corporate edge computing devices. Supported on premise corporate layer 2 and 3 wired and wireless networking equipment.

• Software Engineering Intern, Applied Insight (formerly Stratus Solutions)

  Jun, 2018 - Aug, 20191 year 3 months

  Software engineering internship with a focus on full-stack development.

  • Built, enhanced, and maintained in house web applications. Including Stratus Solutions private employee dashboard.

  • Built various customer tools, including the automation of new employee onboarding tasks.

Projects Experience

• collinbowers.io

  2020-09-31 - Present

  A professional splash page

  • Using javascript and various dependecies to create a unique experience.

• Katowice 2014 Discord Bot

  Sep, 2020 - Oct, 20201 month

  Discord bot combined with a web scraper to gather information and notify users of recent Katowice 2014 sticker sales.

  • Built with Discord.js and Node.js

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