DevOps Engineer looking for a happy home

Peter Savage *************@*****.*** +1-850-***-****

Profile: Adaptable and curious. Devoted to Infrastructure as Code using Linux shell scripts, Python, Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, CFEngine and other similar tools. Committed to high quality communication and working with others to build, test, deploy, maintain and document complex systems. Serious about contributing to the creation of world class products. I dig in and work responsibly to continuously improve things for customer, team and business satisfaction. Adept at communicating technical issues to non technical stakeholders. Good conflict resolution skills. Experienced in building and supporting SaaS platforms like New Relic, Napster, and Cisco’s Advanced Threat Analytics.

8/2024-2/2025 QE/DevOps Consultant, TechArmy LLC

• Built three proof of concepts; Instrumented an application in Azure for application performance monitoring using Dynatrace, Built a simple set of automated regression tests and a barebones framework using C# and Selenium. Setup build, test and deployment pipelines for DotNet applications in Azure using Azure DevOps.

5/2023• 11/2023 Sr DevOps Consultant, Platform Architecture Team, Hilton

• Ran deployments of Hilton's website ( 7000+ containers in AWS ) to green/blue Kubernetes environments in AWS

• Led the Datadog to Dynatrace conversion; wrote Synthetics and helped instrument React.js front end of Hilton; used Grail and DQL to build reporting into Service Level Reporting dashboards.

• Solved the IP exhaustion problem on attempted container creation in AWS Kubernetes Deployment Pipeline

• Organized and implemented refactor of the Gitlab Test and Staging CI environments and pipelines, adding in Smoke Test, and SonarQube analysis Steps

• Refactoring the Gitlab Pipeline Steps and the K8 AWS environment reduced and often eliminated the problem of backed up merge requests; speeding up feature release from once a week to daily

3/2015• 6/2022 Sr Engineer, Advanced Threat Analytics, Cisco Systems Inc.

• One of several architects who designed the initial product offering. Defined the virtualization strategy with a mix of bare metal, KVM, VMWare and Cloud. Helped build Started as a team of 6 and grew to more than 300.

• Built a framework to generate and playback recorded intrusion network traffic, enabling the training and evaluation of a Convolutional Neural Network for intrusion detection using supervised learning.

• Helped push the product to profitability through automation via IaC using Terraform & Ansible

• Designed and built out automated build, static analysis, test, and production environments on premise and in AWS and Azure environments using Kubernetes, Terraform, & Ansible

• Wrote initial tests and automation for each artifact in the stack using Java/TestNG, Python/pytest or JavaScript as appropriate. Coached new team members as we brought them on board and helped them capture test cases, test plans, and build out automated smoke and regression test suites

• Setup Nagios and then migrated to Dynatrace monitoring across the stack in bare metal and cloud Kubernetes and VM environments, built out Synthetics and SLO dashboards, & taught people how to use the tools

2/2014• 1/2015 Sr Engineer, IOD Consultants Inc.

• Created internal CI environment using Jenkins, GitHub and Unity Build Cloud to build, deploy and test iOS and Android applications created in C# and Unity

• Built new and improved existing build/test/deployment pipelines to help clients produce their products efficiently

3/2013• 1/2014 QA Lead/Framework Architect, Nike Inc.

• Built a testing framework in Java using the page object model paradigm. Wrapped Selenium, the BrowserMob HTTP proxy, TestNG, Apache HttpClient, and other useful libraries

• Setup GitHub and Jenkins CI/CD environment used by all teams doing front end work; ran automated testing and SonarQube code/static analysis and deployments to test and staging environments

• Testing Lead on the weekly release team for https://www.nike.com

• Servant leader to a 12 person group of SDET engineers

8/2012• 3/2013 Senior Engineer, New Relic

• Helped write and test the initial iOS and Android monitoring agents; Objective C, Java, Bash

• Instrumented test iOS and Android applications and then exercising them using Appium and Bash scripts. Deployed the tests in a GitLab/Jenkins CI environment

4/2012• 7/2012 Mobile Test Architect, Nike Inc.

• Wrote a custom JavaScript injection testing framework to test the Mobile apps

• Built CI pipeline on Amazon EC2 instances using GitHub, Jenkins. Maven, Gradle, Robot & Appium for testing

• Wrote component/integration level Cucumber/Java/CucumberJVM tests

9/2011• 4/2012 Test Automation Architect, The Walt Disney Company

• Managed a group of 45 SDETs; implemented the VBScript QTP framework used for automated tests for a composite of 100+ applications, database warehouses, web services of the back end, including the Magic Band

• Integrated ALM/Quality Center testing into the Jenkins build pipelines

5/2010• 3/2011 Test Automation Architect, OpenCandy/Google Ventures

• Built an automated testing solution and framework to test C# DotNet application with a domain specific testing API, database driven test runner, packet capture, MySQL schema, web based test management console

• Integrated the testing tool to run within the existing Jenkins CI/CD environment across 19 different Windows configurations and verified the client, web service API, DB, and network traffic

7/2008 –4/2010 Lead DevOps Engineer, Napster Inc.

• Added Git capability to a custom deployment tool written in Perl, JavaScript and jQuery; deployed code and patches on a daily basis across thousands of hosts in 4 data centers around the world

• Built a testing tool to analyze and compare the caching directives in http response headers coming from each layer of the Napster distribution infrastructure, i.e. origin servers->load balancers->caching appliances->Akamai

• Built a load testing tool in Node.js and JavaScript in AWS to mock tens of millions of user sessions

• Wrote a tool in Perl that used PostgreSQL and SNMP that gave us centralized configuration management for network appliances across the enterprise.

• Released daily builds of the Napster website, iOS and Android apps into production using GitHub actions controlled by a customized Hubot

• Maintained and expanded use of Datadog, Nagios and PagerDuty

5/2006 – 6/2008 Consulting QA Lead, Cricket Communications

• Testing Lead for http://www.mycricket.com and associated internal CRM systems; supported roughly $10,000,000 a month in online transactions, and more than 3 million users

• Created automated regression and acceptance tests for MyCricket.com and the MyCricket Android and iOS apps

• Setup Jenkins CI/CD environment for automated testing, leveraging AppThwack for mobile compatibility testing.

• Backup release engineer on weekly deployment calendar; CFEngine, Linux shell scripting

8/2005 – 4/2006 Sr. SDET, DriveCam Inc.

• Tested the HindSight Windows application, Web Services and the DriveCam Camera firmware, both manually and with AutoIt, C#, Fitnesse, Quicktest Professional, Perl, SQL and TCL

• Wrote a testing framework in VBScript QTP using descriptive programming

• Leveraged the work on functional testing to for load testing using database driven AutoIt/VBScript scripts

5/2005 – 8/2005 Contracting QA Lead, Verance Corporation

• Conducted load/stress testing trials using JMeter, OpenSTA and Perl scripts; tested each piece of the stack

• Tiger Team Leader; Located the fundamental network architecture problems preventing the product from shipping

12/2003 – 4/2005 Software Engineer II, Humboldt Merchant Services

• Created a build process using rcs, shell scripts, and visual builder defined the SDLC policies

• .NET development lead for https://www.hbms.com, https://www.merchantapply.com and other internal web sites

• Coded in C#, JavaScript, MS T-SQL, Python, and Visual Basic in a variety of applications

3/1999 – 11/2003 Software Engineer, NetManage Inc.

• Wrote an automated build system using Perl that integrated all branches each day & built all artifacts written in C++

• Build and Release Manager for Xofware; built golden master releases for Windows and Mac versions of the product

• Systems Administrator for Unix/Linux and Windows compatibility testing Labs

• Developer for the Mac version of the Xoftware X Display Server; coded in C++

Education

• Linguistics/Chemistry, Humboldt State, Arcata, CA

• Software Engineering, UCSD, San Diego, CA

• Apprenticeship in Usability Design & Testing with Behavioristics, San Diego, CA

Honors/Awards

• National Science Foundation Grants; "Visualization of the Abstract in General Chemistry", "Molecular and Reactivity Modeling for Improved Undergraduate Education and Research in Chemistry", "Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum"

• Apple Grant; "Computer Assisted Instructional Modules in Foreign Languages and in Chemistry”

Spoken & Written Languages

• Fluent in English & Spanish, French good reading and writing/very rusty spoken, Mandarin and Japanese very basic

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