Troy Thompson

TECH STACK: AWS(EC2, ECS, IAM, CodePipeline, Route53, VPC), Terraform, Git

NOTABLE PROJECTS:

• Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and tools to optimize DevOps processes and improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the development and operations teams.
• Architect and implement application infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments
• Develop and implement security measures to protect the organization's cloud infrastructure and data from cyber threats and attacks.
• Creation and maintenance of documentation including runbooks and network diagrams
• Lead the evaluation and implementation of new technologies and tools to optimize DevOps processes and improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the development and operations teams.

TECH STACK: Varies by client: AWS, CloudFormation,
Control Tower, CodeCommit, ECS
NOTABLE PROJECT: Built a process to automatically
create tomcat RPMs as new versions became available
● Compare in-use version with available version and
launch build process if new version is available
● Download source, launch docker container, build new
artifacts with rules stored in CodeCommit,
● Store new artifacts in S3 and update version files
● Maintenance and streamlining of golden AMI process

NOTABLE PROJECT: Maintenance and streamlining of
AMI build process
● Review the process of for building AMIs consumed by
other departments
● Removed excess code from CodeBuild process
● Fixed GPG key errors for RPM processes
● Edited testing stanzas in CodeBuild yaml files
● Various other bug fixes
● Alerting departments when new AMIs become
available
● Updates to authentication keys as required.

NOTABLE PROJECT: Evaluate current AWS stack and
design a process for migrating into Control Tower
● Discover meetings with department stakeholders
● Team-led discovery of AWS artifacts, process,
tools
● Review of documentation, code repositories,
tagging rules, account structure
● Design and implement epics and users stories in
JIRA for visibility and tracking
● Deliver Control Tower recommendations

TECH STACK: 4.5TB/month Splunk installation, SFTP, Tableau, CentOS

NOTABLE PROJECT: Built a pipeline to process Splunk usage information, attach internal data, and send that data to Tableau for analytics

• Maintain and support large-scale Splunk installation processing 4.5TB of events per month
• Maintain a healthy and highly available Enterprise platform for upstream users and developers @ Facebook
• Extend the tools with functionality or performance related engineering and deployment automation around the world
• Carry out activities in incident, problem, change and configuration management and continual service improvement processes
• Resolving Splunk data-onboarding issues, working with users on streamlined queries, providing training and documentation
• Building custom dashboards and pipelines for analysis of throughput and usage in Splunk

DevOps Engineer
Auris Robotics, Redwood City, CA
TECH STACK: 2 AWS accounts, 50+ servers, Artifiactory, GitLab
NOTABLE PROJECT: Used django to design and implement a web interface for users to update their WAN IPs for system access during pandemic
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NOTABLE PROJECT: Used jfrog CLI and AQL to write a customized retention policy for Artifactory repositories. System scanned designated repos and removed objects based on defined parameters. Used ansible to manage:
Configuration of users, permissions, system updates
Installation of jfrog requirements
Management of scripts for the retention policy

TECH STACK: 10 blade racks, 50+ servers, IPMI, golang, ansible

NOTABLE PROJECT: Wrote ansible playbook for managing users, and SSH keys. This prevented the team from using default usernames. Enhanced security by forcing use of SSH keys.

NOTABLE PROJECT: Wrote ansible playbook for installing and updating the VM deployment software

• DevOps Support for testing team, software platform
• Custom shell scripts for automation tasks
• Management of VM deployments

TECH STACK: AWS, 4 environments, 100 instances, JIRA, Confluence, gitlab, Docker, Puppet, perl, Jenkins, New Relic

NOTABLE PROJECT: Migration of vagrant images for development to Docker containers that integrated with puppet. The system improved the consistency and repeatability of the development process.

• DevOps support for 4 teams (IOS, Android, QA, Content)
• Management of accounts (VPN, email, Atlassian)
• Custom shell scripts for working with New Relic API
• AWS cost analysis
• Build/release operations, rollbacks, monitoring, maintenance

TECH STACK: 20+ clients with custom setups: terraform, git, nagios, AWS
NOTABLE PROJECT: Designed a process that harnessed Lambda functions to rotate a client's logs from a web stack, to CloudWatch, to S3, and finally to Glacier
NOTABLE PROJECT: Implemented a custom health check solution for node groups behind an ELB which included adjusting the haproxy rules on those nodes. This allowed the check traffic to run separate from customer traffic.

• DevOps support for primary client, stand-by for other clients
• 24x7x364 on-call rotation
• Used Chef, terraform to manage and maintain both internal and client codebase