Hi, I’m
Jeremy Spofford
Windham,ME
Summary
Respectful self-motivated engineer gifted at finding reliable solutions for software issues offering 3-year DevOps background setting up CI and CD pipelines and scripting deployment activities. Well-rounded and conscientious professional committed to proactively managing change and quickly deploying critical applications. Polished in deploying updates and fixes, building successful tools to reduce error occurrences and conducting root cause analysis.
Overview
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Vivid Cloud
Senior DevOps Engineer
09.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Automated application deployment with introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects, reducing manual deployments and saving release engineer 5 hours per week
- Mentored junior team members, fostering professional growth and improving overall team performance.
- Increased system reliability, minimizing downtime and service disruptions through proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in software delivery process.
- Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members by documenting processes, best practices, and lessons learned from past experiences.
- Developed custom scripts using Python or Bash languages to automate repetitive tasks or integrate disparate systems effectively streamlining workflows across departments.
- Managed GCP assets and integrated multiple GCP resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
- Managed GCP IAM roles & permissions for GCP resources, service accounts and GCP users & principals.
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
Software Engineer
04.2021 - 09.2022
Job overview
- Built internal tool using PowerShell to automate release and updating of TypeDoc comments into Gatsby Documentation Website, reducing manual documentation
- Built cloud administration application providing clients access to integrate and map required data from external services in centralized location, reducing support calls
- Spearheaded move from Bitbucket and TeamCity to GitHub to support CI/CD, including branch protection safeguards requiring team member code reviews and secret checks on 100% of commits
- Worked with product managers to architect and develop single-page web app for client database migration into cloud application.
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
DevOps Engineer
04.2019 - 04.2021
Job overview
- Reduced user creation and administration tasks by 30 minutes per user by automating user creation process for new engineers
- Developed infrastructure using Puppet Enterprise architecture as code for department goal to reduce configuration drift and ensure consistency and reliability across all developer environments
- Managed existing on-premises environments, automation, update requirements, disaster recovery/backups, and capacity planning
- Ensured project documentation was created and updated, including design, development, and deployment documentation
- Developed automated server creation with Cloud-Config and vRealize tools to ensure developers of fast, consistent, reproducible environments reducing manual operations intervention
- Ensured scheduled static code analysis security scanning and reporting for Tyler-developed software, providing automated code vulnerability reports to development teams.
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
Conversions Engineer
06.2017 - 04.2019
Job overview
- Designed COBOL programs converting data from old client systems to Tyler software schema requirements in relational databases (MS SQL)
- Streamlined build and compiling process by building internal CLI tool to automate manual tasks
- Built internal CLI tool to automate creation of error logs and build, compile and output data into correct files and formats, drastically decreasing documentation needs, manual tasks, and conversion times; saving each engineer 5 hours per week.
- Executed and developed SQL scripts for additional data conversions and data updates.
- Optimized engineering processes by implementing innovative solutions and streamlining workflow.
- Improved team productivity by providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers.
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER
Pharmacy Systems Specialist
02.2016 - 06.2017
Job overview
- Responded to all phone messages, paging system messages and emails within 2 hours, prioritizing urgent needs, and communicating plans with all customers within 24 hours
- Improved technology performance by strengthening relationships with vendors to ensure optimal usage of all solutions and collaborating with vendors as needed for installations and upgrades
- Excelled at creating wide array of pharmacy medical reports and forms using Python and SQL
- Developed downtime procedures, FAQs, and knowledge-based documentation.
Education
Southern Maine Community CollegeSouth Portland
Associate of Science from Computer Science
01.2016
Skills
- Terraform
- GitLab (CI/CD)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- TypeScript / Node / JavaScript
- Shell Scripting
- Linux
- Database Administration
- Containerization Technologies
- Infrastructure Automation
Websites
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
Vivid Cloud
09.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
04.2021 - 09.2022
DevOps Engineer
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
04.2019 - 04.2021
Conversions Engineer
TYLER TECHNOLOGIES
06.2017 - 04.2019
Pharmacy Systems Specialist
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER
02.2016 - 06.2017
Southern Maine Community College
Associate of Science from Computer Science
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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