- History
- Miro – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – DevOps Engineer – January 2021 – current
- Responsibilities:
- Deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize global IT cloud resources on AWS and private data center
- Participate in on-call rotation in support of critical production alerts
- Provide thought leadership as organization migrates to modern development practices
- Create CI / CD tooling and services to increase deployment velocity for client app teams
- Development team support migrating and deploying services into Kubernetes cluster
Tools: CI / CD, Docker, Git, GitLab, AWS, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager
- Tenerum – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Infrastructure Engineer – July 2019 – December 2020
- Responsibilities:
- Deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise cloud applications on Google Cloud Platform
- Design and Provision system infrastructure in support of business services and growth goals
- Coordinate with development regarding project system requirements and operational load
- Created CI / CD tooling and services to accelerate commit to production velocity
- Provide thought leadership as organization migrates to modern development practices
Tools: CI / CD, Docker, Git, GitLab, Google Cloud (GCP), Linux (CentOS/Debian), Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager
Accenture – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Application Automation Engineer (contract) – July 2018 – July 2019
Responsibilities:
- Support client application teams on board to a standardized CI / CD process as mandated
- Create, administer, and update multiple Jenkins & Jenkins pipeline jobs as required
- Create CI / CD tooling and services to increase deployment velocity for client app teams
- Troubleshoot client service applications inter-connection issues
- Educate client app team on modern CI / CD designs and best practices
- Leverage software background in recommending engineering best practices to legacy app teams
Tools: Bash, Git, Jenkins, Linux, Sonarqube, Veracode, SDLC
Malwarebytes – Site Reliability Engineer (3mo. contract) – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – March 2018 – June 2018
Responsibilities:
- Deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise cloud applications in AWS
- Evangelize cloud best practices across engineering teams
- Create comprehensive documentation to a level by which processes are reproducible by others
- Stay abreast of the latest trends in cloud technology and in IT processes
- Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of stakeholders
Tools: AWS, Bash, CI/CD, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Linux, Scrum, Terraform
Sourcetoad, LLC. – Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead / DevOps – Tampa, FL. USA – Feb. 2014 – March 2018
Responsibilities:
- Mentor and train junior engineers in software engineering best practices
- Pioneer the testing, justification, and implementation of new technologies and processes
- Develop multiple RESTful API services for land and ship based systems
- Technical Lead on multiple projects; from rapid prototyping MVPs to ongoing enterprise support
- Participate in team based projects to produce deliverables per documented specs
- Assist in maintaining internal tool set to keep abreast of industry evolution
Tools: Agile. AWS, API, Bash, CI/CD, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Leadership, PHP, SQL, SDLC, REST
Tech Data – Sr. Level PHP Developer (6mo. contract) – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Nov. 2015 – Mar. 2016
Responsibilities:
- Reduced `fix it` ticket handle time by 80% by developing an internal web utility
- Coordinate with business teams to implement value add features: SSO, vendor integrations, etc
- Assist Lead Application Architect with project planning, feature requirement, mentoring and training
- Assist DevOps teams with migrating legacy systems to modern architectural standards
Tools: API, Agile, BitBucket, Git, Leadership, PHP, MVC (Symphony 2.x), SDLC
HealthPlan Services – Developer – Tampa, FL. USA – Aug 2012 – Jan 2014
Responsibilities:
- Produce and maintain team management tools
- Interface with system specialists to produce useful reporting tools
- Improve on existing code base using industry recommended best practices
Tools: API, Git, PHP, MVC (inhouse), SQL
GSA Applications – Developer – Tampa, FL. USA – May 2012 – Aug 2012
Responsibilities:
- Decrease average deliverable time from 6 months to 6 weeks
- Leverage Agile leadership paradigm to lead a three person customer facing team
- Customize SugarCRM to align to internal custom workflow
- Facilitate SQL data migrations from Microsoft CRM to SugarCRM
Tools: Agile, Git, Leadership, PHP, HTML, WordPress
Traderplanet.com – Jr.Developer – Wesley Chapel, FL. USA – Sept 2010 – Feb 2012
Responsibilities:
- Implement site wide enhancements and patches as dictated by project roadmap
- Apply efficiency and optimization to code base as opportunity are presented
- Interface with project stakeholders to facilitate feature change requests
- Migrate web video broadcast system to handle larger user live cast video engagements
Tools: API, Scrum, CSS, Git, HTML, JS, PHP, MVC (CakePHP 1.x)
Accomplishments / Education
- Amazon Web Services – Cloud Practitioner 2017
- Amazon Web Services – Developer Associate 2018, 2021
- Amazon Web Services – Solution Architect Associate 2017, 2021
- Amazon Web Services – SysOps Associate 2018, 2021
- Hashicorp – Terraform Associate 2021
- Dev.to – Distinguished Author 2019
- International Academy of Art and Design – BFA in Web Development, Graduated May 2009, with honors (Cum-Laude)
Entrepreneurship
ConnecHub, LLC – CTO
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- Oversee technology engineering aspects of product
- Coordinate with other product owners to prioritize, develop, and deploy features
- Effectively leverage AWS cloud offerings to provide cost effective solutions for product
Tools: Ansible, AWS, Terraform, Ruby / Ruby on Rails.
Social / Web Accounts
- GitHub: https://github.com/davidjeddy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djeddy/
- Personal Blog: https://blog.davidjeddy.com
- Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1572657/david-j-eddy
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/David_J_Eddy