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Brian Snelgrove

Brian Snelgrove

Seattle,WA

Summary

Innovative and results-oriented with over 5 years of experience in leading the digital transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable, and secure architectures. Expert in DevOps methodologies such as containerization and CI/CD. Significantly reduces deployment times from weeks to minutes, while saving organizations thousands of dollars in cloud compute with on-prem solutions. Commitment to continuing education and self development; Founder and sole proprietor of "My Champs", a full stack, scalable, web app that uses AI to generate cards in an online multiplayer game.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder

My Champs
06.2023 - Current

Developed entirely in Typescript, using React JS, Supabase, and Deno, deployed to Vercel and AWS, utilizes AI

DevOps Engineer

Benaroya Research Institute
01.2019 - Current

Lead DevOps Engineer, final decision with staffing and strategic plans for Information Technology. Often work directly with project stakeholders to assess risks and provide solutions. Recently have shifted towards software engineering, but still maintain infrastructure/operational duties in role.

Notable Tasks and Projects

  • Developed "Humani" web app and backend in Typescript. Backend runs various cron jobs that synchronize locally encrypted sqlite with third parties, while also serving a TRPC endpoint. The front end communicates with TRPC to display sync statuses as well as providing some file conversion functions for Accounting/HR.
  • Architected and implemented on prem Kubernetes clusters using Terraform/Ansible. Migrated all developers from manual builds and deployments to CI/CD in Github, where their code is built, tested, and deployed in gitops fashion using Fluxcd, including automatic configuration of F5 load balancer for web apps.
  • Architected and implemented on prem HPC cluster using Posit, SLURM, and Singularity. Provides containerized RStudio and Jupyter sessions to data scientists.
  • Maintainer of VMWare Horizon cluster. Provides remote users performant, virtualized, and secure Windows desktops.

Help Desk Lead Technician

Benaroya Research Institute
06.2016 - 01.2019

Deployed Atlassian Jira. Migration to 365. Reduced average ticket resolution time from 1 week to 2 days

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biology, General

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
12-2016

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS, EC2, S3, Route53, Azure, AKS, AKV
  • Languages: TypeScript, Powershell, Python, Golang, Bash, SQL
  • CI/CD: Kubernetes, Docker, Github Actions, Gitops/FluxCD

Timeline

Founder

My Champs
06.2023 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Benaroya Research Institute
01.2019 - Current

Help Desk Lead Technician

Benaroya Research Institute
06.2016 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Biology, General

University of Washington
Brian Snelgrove