Justin Ohms
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Seattle,WA
Summary
DevOps Engineering Lead, Lifelong learner, Convergent and Divergent Thinker, Creative and Pragmatic Problem Solver. A lifelong learner, viewing curiosity, education, personal development and mentoring as crucial elements for everyone to reach their full potential. A talent to think in both a convergent and divergent manner, searching in context for solutions to problems while continuing to question base assumptions. With 30 years of experience in computers, networking, and software development and approach to problems with a holistic view spanning multiple disciplines.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Principal DevOps Engineer
OpenComp
Seattle, Washington
07.2022 - Current
- Responsible for all company DevOps operations
- Designed and built GitHub actions CD/CD Reduced build time by 72%
- Migrated build system from Code Ship + Heroku, to GitHub Actions + AWS
- Worked closely with Security Ops to ensure compliance with SOX, GDPR
- Implemented automatic data integrity and backup system
- Performed operational design reviews to determine feasibility and budgetary impacts of new proposals.
- Designed administrative and maintenance procedures to provide optimal service uptimes and minimize service disruptions.
Software Engineering Lead/Architect
AIM Consulting Services
Seattle, Washington
10.2020 - 06.2022
- Lead team of six developers to create dynamic patient registration and data collection system including extensible HL7/FHIR integration
- Designed domain-specific language and compiler to support development of healthcare data collection forms
- Primary architect for this multi-component micro-service system to collect patient data
- Designed and coded complete infrastructure as code solution using AWS CDK including automated testing and CI/CD for 17 independent micro-service deployments.
- Performed complex architectural and design assignments, applying innovative architectural design concepts and advanced professional knowledge
Senior Software Engineer
Tigera
Seattle, Washington
11.2018 - 08.2019
- Contributor to both open source Calico and Tigera Secure EE container and Kubernetes security firewall projects
- Developed automated deployment and integration tests for Kubernetes pods including verification of RBAC and policy enforcement on user access and network traffic
- Planned and implemented migration of 30 interdependent Go projects from glide or dep to Go Modules
- Standardized build, test and deployment make files for all projects
- Implemented automated CI/CD on all projects using Jenkins and/or Code Ship
- Implemented Docker Content Trust (Notary Registry) server and container signing as part of CD release process.
Senior Software Engineer
Navigating Cancer
Seattle, Washington
03.2016 - 05.2018
- Lead developer and architect for Mirth Connect based HL7, CCDA, and FHIR ETL system processing thousand data feeds with tens of millions of data elements per day.
- Created and maintained high availability system with automatic failover and 99% uptime, running on Amazon EC2 and Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Created internal developer tools in Go. Including consolidated deployment tool that reduced deployment time by 80% and Mirth network channel visualizer released as open source.
- Introduced and championed Git-flow and Docker for development, test and production environments eliminating divergence between testing and production.
Senior Developer
Mixpo
Seattle, Washington
01.2013 - 11.2015
- Architected "Interactive Display" advertising products, largest single enhancement in company history adding significant new features and capabilities with $2MM of prerelease sales
- Led development team responsible for implementing core platform changes while maintaining backward compatibility with all existing ads and reducing platform code size 15%
- Migrated company from SVN to Git
- Provided training, documentation and ongoing mentoring regarding best practices for using Git, GitHub, and Git-flow
- Redesigned build system to move support development as micro-services architecture
- Worked closely with QA and DevOps to implement reliable CI/CD.
Senior Software Development Engineer
RealNetworks
Seattle, Washington
07.2010 - 11.2012
- Lead architect and developer of responsive HTML5/JavaScript UI for unreleased photo and video sharing service.
- Mentored 2 junior developers as well as 3 senior developers new to web development.
- Developed social integration and media sharing features for over 20 different platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube.
- Developed user interface for "Real Viewer", next generation streamlined video player.
- Implemented UI localizations for 33 locales.
Programmer and Technical Lead
Boeing
Seattle, Washington
03.2001 - 07.2010
- Lead multiple developer team
- Developed systems that monitored leased aircraft maintenance and contract performance
- These systems allowed recovery of over $2MM in revenue annually.
Education
Certification, iOS and Mac Application Development -
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 01.2013 - 01.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science
Thomas Edison State University
Trenton, NJ 01.2009 - 01.2010
Certification, Rich Internet Applications -
University of California
Irvine, CA 01.2005 - 01.2008
Computer Science
Southwestern Illinois College
Belleville, IL 01.1992 - 01.1994
Computer Science
North Central College
Naperville, IL 01.1991 - 01.1993
History / Political Science
Saint Louis University
St Louis, MO 01.1989 - 01.1991
Skills
DevOps
AWS
Go
Git
GitHub Automation
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Build Automation
Java
JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Postgres
SQL
NodeJS
Additional Information
- Patents: Organizer United States Patent 07380665 Issued June 3, 2008 Inventors: Justin Ohms
- Interests: Sailing, gold prospecting, painting, artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, electronics, home automation, robotics., 3D-printing,
Timeline
Principal DevOps Engineer
OpenComp
07.2022 - Current
Software Engineering Lead/Architect
AIM Consulting Services
10.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Tigera
11.2018 - 08.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Navigating Cancer
03.2016 - 05.2018
Senior Developer
Mixpo
01.2013 - 11.2015
Certification, iOS and Mac Application Development -
University of Washington
01.2013 - 01.2014
Senior Software Development Engineer
RealNetworks
07.2010 - 11.2012
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Science
Thomas Edison State University
01.2009 - 01.2010
Certification, Rich Internet Applications -
University of California
01.2005 - 01.2008
Programmer and Technical Lead
Boeing
03.2001 - 07.2010
Computer Science
Southwestern Illinois College
01.1992 - 01.1994
Computer Science
North Central College
01.1991 - 01.1993
History / Political Science
Saint Louis University
01.1989 - 01.1991