Mark Parodi

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San Rafael, CA 94903

advdyd@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To obtain a DevOps Engineer position and become a contributing member of an organization that offers challenge and growth in the software industry. Excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills and proven ability to perform and excel in fast paced environments.

Skill Summary

AWS Cloud Computing: EC2, Auto-Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer, S3, VPC, CloudFront, RDS, Container Service, CloudWatch, Lambda, Route53, IAM, SNS and CloudFormation.

Source Code Management: GIT, GitLab, GitHub, SVN, TortoiseSVN, Nexus and SourceTree.

Operating Systems: CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows.

Scripting Languages: Go, Groovy, HCL, Groovy and Python.

Build & CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, AnthillPro, Bamboo, Ansible, Maven, Artifactory and Chef.

Database, Application & Web Servers: Oracle 10g, SQL, IIS 10, Apache 2, Glassfish and JBOSS.

Infrastructure & Monitoring: Terraform, Ansible, Catchpoint, Splunk, Datadog and AppDynamics.

Professional Experience

Parodi Designs – San Rafael, CA

Product Design Development Engineer March 2022 – October 2022

Designed carbon fiber components for multiple applications using the latest software, materials and production techniques.

Assisted and worked with clients to determine requirements for there projects to produce unique lightweight components to and turning those requirements into operational actions.

Worked closely and managed quality control to ensure the highest quality products were delivered within project timelines.

Managed and researched project specs to determine carbon fiber weave types, patterns and materials in order to produce optimum results.

Autodesk – San Francisco, CA

Principal DevOps Engineer March 2019 – November 2021

Migrated existing CD/CI pipeline from VMWARE, Bamboo and Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) to AWS and corporate Jenkins.

Implemented the ideology of Code as Infrastructure across multiple projects, environments and systems.

Implemented frameworks in the software lifecycle which included unit, integration and acceptance tests, availability, scalability and performance testing.

Designed, developed and maintained CI/CD solutions, leveraging programmatic solutions and automation.

Managed development, staging and production build and deployment systems in private and public cloud space.

Assisted in infrastructure as code transition from legacy Cloudformation configurations to Terraform.

Datameer – San Francisco, CA

Senior DevOps Engineer February 2018 – March 2019

Implemented performance and benchmark test suite and worked with QA resources to improve performance test coverage by executing daily performance test suite via continuous integration.

Configured new DevOps Jenkins master with servers from scratch in order to reduce build time by autoscaling additional resources as needed when existing resources we at capacity.

Introduced disaster recovery by configuring automated daily backups of critical infrastructure resources for build servers to secure AWS S3 buckets and Github repositories.

Worked with development teams to run and deploy the application using Docker containers.

Provisioned development environments using Terraform to bootstrap new cloud infrastructure resources and Ansible for configuration and deployment management.

ID International – Chico, CA - Milan, Italy

Senior IT Consultant March 2016 – January 2017

Established hardware & software requirements for new company laptops, desktops, servers, cellular phones, wireless routers and switches for company infrastructure upgrade.

Setup and configured virtual machines with Virtual Box on all Apple computers to allow users the ability to perform cross OS and browser compatibility testing on a single computer.

Upgraded all wireless routers from WEP to WPA2 + AES encryption for improved company security.

Installed access point range extenders for both Milan and Chico offices to improve Network resources.

Configured and maintained all test hardware and software including Network routers, switches and firewalls.

Optimized Network resources and upgraded Internet Service Provider in order to increase Network throughput, decrease Network latency and improve office productivity.

Telltale Games – San Rafael, CA

DevOps Engineer January 2017 – February 2018

Designed and developed continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline integrating GitLab, Jenkins and Ansible to build and run code deployments in AWS.

Assisted in building a new internal tools website and completed the project one month ahead of schedule.

Initiated Architectural change to existing projects and infrastructure using Docker containers using AWS EC2 Container Service with ECR and managing those resources through AWS CloudFormation.

Managed all company AWS resources including configuration, security and deployment of all required infrastructure including administrative tasks and budgeting.

Scheduled daily snapshot backups of AWS RDS database instances and performed root cause analysis on issues identified, documented required fixes and scheduled website maintenance windows.

Designed custom monitoring dashboards and integrated monitoring tools for deployment processes.

Xero Software – San Francisco, CA

Build & Release Engineer June 2014 – February 2016

Built and maintained all Continuous Integration projects in TeamCity for new features and bug fixes.

Responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining all Windows based Production, Staging, Development, QE and QA test sites running MS IIS and SQL Server.

Worked with the QE team to implement Selenium tests to improve and expand QA test code coverage.

Implemented nightly code merges from master and patch branches into team feature branches to build and deploy test builds to QA and QE test sites automatically.

Administered all team projects, master, feature and hot-fix branches in GITHUB Enterprise.

Quickly familiarized and improved process for generating SQL database scripts required for all new releases.

Guidance Software – San Francisco, CA

Build & Release Engineer March 2013 – June 2014

Primary Release Engineer for the eDiscovery application and responsibilities included building, deploying, and troubleshooting all QA and development sites and environments.

Redesigned the CI build and deployment system and replaced Cruise Control with Jenkins.

Added additional Jenkins server nodes as resource utilization resources increased for Continuous Integration which resulted less time required to run a wider range of automated tests.

SVN administration included managing all project source code, release assets and user accounts.

Assisted with delivering and configuring new Development, Performance and QA environments.

Created build targets in ANT for build and deployment scripts and assisted development in re-introducing JUNIT tests to the build process.

MarketLive – Petaluma, CA

Build & Release Engineer May 2010 – March 2013

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer October 2006 – May 2010

Obtained a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer position and promoted to Build & Release Engineer.

Responsibilities included building and maintaining all source code for the Marketlive platform.

Rebuilt the Continuous Integration from scratch and replaced existing anthillPro system with Jenkins.

Maintained QA, Performance and Development sites and servers including application servers, Apache web servers, load balancing servers for all Windows, Linux and Solaris environments.

Documented software defects using JIRA bug tracking system and reported defects regarding program stability, performance and new feature functionality to software developers.

Assisted Performance team with load and stress testing on staging, performance and QA environments.

Education

AWS Training – San Francisco, CA May 2012 - present

Subjects Studied – DevOps training and Architecting on AWS.

UC Berkeley Extension – Berkeley, CA June 2005 – March 2006

Subjects Studied – UNIX / Linux System Administration, Software Quality Assurance Methodologies.

Heald College – San Francisco, CA August 1997– September 1998

Subjects Studied: Computer Science.

Cabrillo College – Santa Cruz, CA July 1995 – September 1996

Subjects Studied: Industrial and Mechanical Design.

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