ANDY FOINDING
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
Summary
Hardworking and reliable IT professional with a strong ability in Linux system administration, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipeline management. Offering problem-solving, troubleshooting, planning, and analytical skills to play key roles in team and organizational success. Enjoy learning new technologies, tools, and methodologies. Highly organized, proactive, and punctual with a team-oriented mentality.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Lead
GILBARCO VEEDER-ROOT
- Deployed Jenkins environment using CloudFormation templates to provision resources and configure infrastructure as code
- Managed ECS stack deployment for scalable and resilient Jenkins infrastructure
- Responsible for the release process, ensuring smooth and efficient software deployments
- Automated various processes, including build, test, and deployment pipelines using Jenkins and other CI/CD tools
- Implemented infrastructure as code practices using CloudFormation, resulting in a 30% reduction in environment provisioning time and ensuring consistent and reproducible environments
- Administered Jenkins server, including plugin management, security configurations, and performance optimization
- Uploaded new software versions to production environment, coordinating with development teams and stakeholders to ensure smooth releases
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve deployment processes, streamline workflows, and enhance overall efficiency
- Conducted regular performance monitoring, log analysis, and troubleshooting to maintain high availability and reliability of Jenkins environment
- Implemented security best practices, including access controls, encryption, and vulnerability management
- Worked closely with hardware and software engineers to address any embedded-specific requirements, ensuring seamless integration of ArgoCD within embedded environment.
DevOps/Engineer (Contract)
JPMORGAN & Chase Delaware
01.2019 - 06.2022
- Utilized AWS services such as ECS, S3, ELB, VPC, and Route 53
- Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, including creating local clusters and deploying application containers
- Streamlined application deployment using Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker through CI/CD pipeline management
- Launched EC2 instances in AWS, created VPCs, subnets, internet gateways, and security groups
- Leveraged Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform for resource provisioning in AWS
- Used Git as Repository system for continuous integration, continuous delivery and Deployment for Java application
- Implemented automated scripts/tools to automate operational tasks/activities
- Introduced ArgoCD into organization’s workflow, reducing manual deployment errors and enhancing application delivery speed
- Drive and implemented monitoring tools/metrics/reports for tracking application/service performance.
Linux System Administrator (Contract)
TD Bank - Wilmington, DE
07.2016 - 01.2019
- Configured and updated Linux servers with the latest releases and patches
- Utilized Bash shell scripting to automate tasks and optimize productivity
- Performed software installations and troubleshooting at the OS and application level
- Implemented system installation and hardening based on CIS benchmark guidelines, Leading to a 20% improvement in compliants ratings
- Collaborated with development team, utilizing Git as version control system
- Installed, configured, monitored, and troubleshooted LAMP stack
- Security Enhanced Linux and file system special permission
- Supported Various production application deployments application.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology -
University of Buea
CameroonSkills
- Version Control System: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket
- Continuous Integration and Delivery: Jenkins, Gitlab, ArgoCD
- Automation/Deployment: Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation
- Containerization: Docker
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
- DevOps Pipeline Management
- Scripting Language: Bash Shell
- Excellent communication skills
- Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana
- Artifactory: Nexus, Docker Hub
- Code quality: SonarQube, Coverity, Black duck
- Agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, scrumban
- Best Practices Implementation
- Documentation Management:JIRA
- Product Management
Timeline
DevOps/Engineer (Contract)
JPMORGAN & Chase Delaware
01.2019 - 06.2022
Linux System Administrator (Contract)
TD Bank - Wilmington, DE
07.2016 - 01.2019
DevOps Lead
GILBARCO VEEDER-ROOT
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology -
University of Buea