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Lucas Becker

Millwood

Summary

Eternally curious problem solver obsessed with automation. Language agnostic software engineer with a focus on deployment and administration of Kubernetes environments and containerized applications at scale with an emphasis on successful multi-tenancy and stability.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal DevOps Engineer

Peak6 Capital Management
08.2022 - 07.2023

Kubernetes SME and senior DevOps engineer, advising on best practices regarding containerized trading applications, cluster monitoring and capacity planning of multi-tenant environments.

Designed and implemented restructuring and idempotent rebuild of legacy business critical trading infrastructure and applications with zero downtime.

Delivered improved cluster health visibility and observability OKRs by anticipating potential misconfigurations or hardware errors using Kuberhealthy and synthetic cluster transactions written in Golang.


DevOps Engineer

DRW Holdings
10.2021 - 07.2022

DevOps engineer for Container Infrastructure Team.

Created and maintained Kubernetes multi-tenant and single tenant bare metal clusters used by desk teams for critical trading operations.

Created POC air gapped Kubernetes environment on Amazon AWS with Rancher/RKE

Advised desk teams on containerization and deployment of trading applications.

Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure stability of critical trading operations.


Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Services

JPMorgan Chase
08.2017 - 10.2021

Founding team member of JPMC's Kubernetes-as-a-service platform.

Deployed 2000+ nodes in over 100 production clusters in 12+ data centers.

Implemented automated bare metal Kubernetes cluster deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Bash

Designed and implemented to production platform's fine-grained cluster resource validation using Open Policy Agent and Golang.

Created custom Prometheus metrics exporters and Grafana dashboards to proactively respond to unexpected outages.

CI/CD creating robust and secure deployment and validation pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible and Terraform

Developed and implemented Golang cluster components and integrated with legacy authorization and authentication systems.

Advised app teams modernize and containerize applications from legacy hardware to Kubernetes environmens.

Software Developer

UnifyID
03.2017 - 08.2017

Developed browser (Chrome/Firefox) extensions to integrate with UnifyID authorization schema and sync with Android/IOS mobile app.
Contributed to UnifyID Android and IOS applications.

Education

Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
05.2014

Skills

Kubernetes (Rancher/Tanzu/Vanilla) Multi-tenancy

Golang / Python Application Development

Full-stack Web/Mobile Development

Unix System Administration

CI/CD (Jenkins, Flux, Saltsack, Ansible)

Open Policy Agent

Terraform

Containerization

Resource Management / Capacity Planning

Timeline

Principal DevOps Engineer

Peak6 Capital Management
08.2022 - 07.2023

DevOps Engineer

DRW Holdings
10.2021 - 07.2022

Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud Services

JPMorgan Chase
08.2017 - 10.2021

Software Developer

UnifyID
03.2017 - 08.2017

Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University
Lucas Becker