Andre Johnson
San Jose, CA
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Lead Performance/Automation/DevOps Engineer
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
** + years of diverse background in Systems Automation Engineering, Continuous Integration/Deployment, Configuration Management, Software Development, Testing, and DevOps System Management.
Lead Engineer experience implementing design, assessing priorities, writing and testing system software for multi-platforms UNIX/Linux and Windows environments
Proven skills in a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines, creating system designs for high availability for e-commerce systems, and open-source working environments.
Extensive Cloud computing/deployment experience AWS/EC2, Azure and Google Cloud. Built, migrated, and deployed using Ansible, Terraform
Industries: Software/Hardware, e-Commerce/SEO, Entertainment, Telecommunications, Data, IT Consulting
TECHNICAL SKILLS
•Virtualization: VMware ESXi, OpenStack, OpenShift, Terraform, Docker
•Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansable, Terrform, Pluumi, Helm, Terragrunt, boto, Chalice
•EDITORS: Xcode, Komodo, PyCharm, IntelliJ, Visual Studio
•(CI/CD) Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Bamboo, Harness.io, ArgoCD
•(CM) Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, Kubernetes
•Monitoring Tools: Grafana, Zabbix, Splunk, Splunk Administration
•Automation Scripting: Python, Ruby, Groovy, Shell, Golang, Java
•Tomcat, Apache
•BDD Testing, creation of frameworks and tools, Java, JavaScript, Ruby On Rails, and commercial test automation packages.
•Ai Machine Learning.
•Strong QA automation testing/build tools expertise using: Selenium, Squish, TestNG, JUnit, SOAP UI, JIRA of systems, desktop, web, and mobile applications (iOS/Android)
•AI & ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Amazon SageMaker, Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
•Version Control: Subversion SVN, Git
•DevSecOpt tools: Barricade, AWS CloudTrail, splunk, Nessus.
•Storage system, Hosted and Cloud, Data Lake at scale.,
•Database: SQL, MySQL, familiar with NoSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB (Hadoop. Zookeeper, Apache Spark, SnowFlake
•Contributing technical expertise plus personal creativity; supervisory and supporting roles producing timely, coordinated results to customers and system users.
EDUCATION
(USC) University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science I Electrical Engineering
Santa Monica City College
Associate of Science
CERTIFICATES/TRAINING
Linux Administration, Splunk administration, Splunk development, NoSQL, Fundamentals of C++ and Object- Oriented Design, AWS Certified Sysops Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified AI Practitioner Shell Puppet, Chef, Programing, CloudFormation, Python, Java, Selenium, Cucumber Scripting, Splunk, Java Programming, JavaScript, Ruby, Hadoop In Real World,, Chef & Cobbler, Ansible, Git - SVN, Network VMware VCP, and Network protocol’s training from Cisco Layer 2/3 WAN LAN Networking. Monitoring tools Splunk, Nagios, Elasticsearch, pulumi, Nvidia, building conversation AI applications,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bytedance 3/2023 – 1/2025
Sr DevOps Software Engineer SRE
Created Terraform for system configuration and deployments
Installed and managed is for Kubernetes cluster.
Machine learning and AI systems, for monitoring content.
Production alert and monitoring configure setups.
Crated config and deployment tools using Python and Terraform
CICD Jenkins, AWS
Led AI and ML solution implementations, including generative AI platforms using PyTorch.
Designed Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems for accurate content retrieval.
Managed extensive Kubernetes environments and orchestrated multi-cloud migrations to OpenShift.
Developed secure CI/CD pipelines integrating Terraform, Harness.io, and comprehensive security scanning.
Built custom analytics and monitoring dashboards utilizing Quick Base and Apache Druid.
Programming languages, python, shell, Go, Javascript
Docker Services creation.
Managing a Kubernetes EKS
Terraform automation, ansible automation, Cloud formation
Cloud storage systems,
Snowflake administration data engineer.
Data Extraction, Data Analytics, and Dashboarding
Lead secure, scalable infrastructure across cloud and on-prem, blending AWS/cloud networking or network security
with project management. Hands-on architect-level role (50/50 tech and PM) managing systems, teams, and vendors in regulated environments.
System monitoring and alerts Argus
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
Documentation creation as it pertained to release processes
Buildout of conversion of EC2 Kafka to MSK.
Tarana Wireless Mountain View 1/2022 – 12/2022
Sr DevOps SRE
Created Terraform for system configuration and deployments
Installed and managed is for Kubernetes cluster.
Production alert and monitoring configure setups.
Set up and configured Gitlab as part of the new code deployment effort.
Crated config and deployment tools using python and Terraform
CICD Jenkins, AWS
Programming languages, python, shell, Java
Docker Services creation.
Configured, installed and administered HashiCorp Vault and JFrog Artifactory to enable secure storage and access controls for software artifacts and secrets across development pipelines.
Managing a Kubernetes EKS
Terraform automation, ansible automation, Cloud formation
Networking, tcp-ip, dns, sftp, firewall.
SRE support for QA
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
Documentation creation as it pertained to release processes
Azure Migrate transfer your on-premises servers to Azure
Cloud cost management
Buildout of conversion of EC2 Kafka to MSK.
Cisco Arizona 1/2021 – 11/21
Sr DevOps SRE
Managing a Kubernetes environment supporting cisco Webex system for FEDramp
Production alert and monitoring configure setups.
CICD Jenkins, AWS
Docker Services creation.
Deployment of production code
Terraform automation, ansible automation
Networking, tcp-ip, dns, sftp, firewall.
SRE support for QA
Amazon So0S
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
Scrum master for site migration effort. From V2 to V4
Documentation creation as it pertained to release processes.
Programming languages python, go, Java for tomcat.
Symantec Mountain View 9/2019 – 1/2020
Sr DevOps SRE
Working on ticket backlogs, application deployments
Cross integration of Kubernetes EKS based microservices system with and older Azure monolithic system
Cross Cloud site migration, tools and data conversion from aws to azure.
Migrate VMware VM’s to Azure IaaS, Database migration to Azure.
Docker Services creation.
Fixing service issues. AWS and Azure
Shell scripts for tools
Openstack Migration to EKS and Containers
Led implementation of HashiCorp Vault and JFrog Artifactory solutions to establish robust access controls, encryption, and auditing for development artifacts and secrets. Defined policies and workflows enabling development teams to securely store and retrieve sensitive materials while maintaining compliance with organizational security standards.
CI/CD with build system, Jenkins (golang) and GitLab
SRE support for QA
• Implemented infrastructure monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure high availability and fast incident response.
• Applied PMP-based project management practices to track progress, mitigate risks, and align migration timelines with business objectives.
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
Scrum master for site migration effort.
Palo alto Networks San Jose 1/2019 – 7/2019
Sr DevOps SRE
Creating of GCP network applications. Kubernetes Clusters, Database services GCP.
Wrote Terraform scrips for Kubernetes EKS luster creation
Created Istio virtual service definitions and destination rules for secure service mesh.
Created Helm Scrips for the deployment of microservices.
Shell scripts to deploy yaml files.
Monitoring, Splunk, Sensu
CI/CD with build system, Jenkins (golang) and GitLab
Work in Adding Spinnaker as deployment tools for yaml services.
Created dashboarding with and monitoring with ELK Stack hosted Elasticsearch config for logs processing.
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
CCCTC San Jose (remote) 7/2017 – 11/2018
Sr DevOps Architect
Maximize system uptime and availability, ensuring functional and performance SLAs
support ci-cd pipeline (java) (golang). Kubernetes EKS, Docker and Openshift container migradtion.
Solve complex problems for critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards, and methods for supporting the platform
Initiate and lead scripting and automation to streamline system updates and upgrades
Set up critical infrastructure, tools, and framework in python, terraform, CloudFormation
Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
Cloudgenix San Jose 3/2017 – 5/2018
DevOps SRE
Data conversion, Kubernetes EKS and Docker, MongoDB AWS architecture configuration, Software deployment, service tools deployment, App creation (IT tools), Created Terraform scrips, for automatic site deployment.
Firewall configuration, data migration, build configuration Jenkins. Ubuntu App Machine Interface for AWS.
Monitoring, Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix configuration and management, Terraform automation for cross Cloud deployments and configuration for Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.
Site automation tools, Ansible and Salt, Chef. Puppet for enterprise config.
Git source control.
Cisco Sunnyvale 1/2017 – 3/2017
DevOps SRE- IOT
Site Reliably Engineer, on a microservices internet of things project.
Deploy and support, AWS, Jenkins, continuous integration, Marathon - Mesos, Terraform, ansible.
Chef and puppet for enterprise configuration.
Wrote runbooks for staff site support.
Wrote site tools in python and shell, Java core, Docker Java container tuning.
Supported developers with related AWS issues, deployed Docker container services.
Built test environments for developers. My role at cisco my work focus was on monitoring, maintaining and configuring Mesos, marathon that was part of a larger system that created an environment for running container services that made up a
Did scaling a tuning the cluster, worked on did new system software deployments for the running environment. updated the deployment tools and scrips as requre3d and provided support when containers did not deploy or got stuck in a deployment cycle. Created Jenkins pipelines for code deployments. General cluster management duties
CA Mountain View 01/2016 – 5/2016
DevOps SRE - SaaC
Developed tools to support CA’s private cloud, Worked on Isolating centos server crashes.
Wrote server recovery tool for auto-configuration and restart of apache tomcat, AACS clusters, also wrote and xml file extraction tool in python.
Creating support tools in Shell, Python, Java for system management and applications support.
Documented, cluster environment with Support staff training on internal system configuration tool “lisa”
Wrote Openstack integration tools.
CI-CD - Jenkins software deployment into AWS servers
Created migration plan for conversion from company internal tool to Ansible.
Work to create docker versions of applications deployment’s
Splunk San Francisco, CA 01/2014 – 4/2015
Sr Automation Engineer - DevOps
Developed test tools for load performance testing of apt for stream. Language’s used Java, Python, Go and JavaScript.
Test tools for framework testing, Rest, Selenium, ixia for protocol verification.
Created JMeter load performance scrips written for testing Splunk’s network security package.
Splunk administration.
Created Docker containers of application’s deployable as micro-services
Aws Applications tools for cloud deployment. Configured and managed Splunk.
Setup continuous integration using Bamboo, Jenkins, Git and SVN.
Test cluster management via Chef and Ansible
Wrote test regression tests using selenium and other tools in ruby, JavaScript, Perl, python and java.
Principle Consultant via Kovarus San Ramon, CA 06/2013 – 10/2013
Lead Performance Analyst
DevOps Architect and planner for automated system management.
VMware automation automated system deployment.
Wrote Cookbooks for applications software deployments and management.
System tuning Java JVM turn and performance.
Chef and Puppet automation and Administration
Wrote Integration tools for OpenStack account bridging.
Jenkins build and deployment
System and repository automation for cloud migration AWS/EC2, Azure, Ansible, Fabric
Created Docker environments and containers for CD / CI for hosted environment and custom AWS custom Ami’s.
Selenium frameworks for testing, Rest API, for server content access and Security Rules as part of CI framework.
Created Git repository and supporting documentation.
Performance Architect and scalability design project lead for system upgrades.
Agent languages used, Ruby PERL, Shell and Python.
For different OS platform configurations.
Agile project management and tool
VMware Palo Alto, CA 1/2013 – 6/2013
Sr. Automation Engineer
Created automated tests for validating features for VMware v5.5. and VCenter.
Chef administration and deployment.
Tests cases that are written in Java, framework is TestNG.
Adding automation to Jenkins environment.
Updated and repaired older cases
Debugging
Performance and scalability testing.
Agile Project managed hp quality center with test case regression links for automatic regressions.
Wrote a Selenium based migration tool for migrating tests to the new regression environment.
Ran and logged tests, created test plans for tracking documentation.
Performance Analyst CoreLogic San Mateo, CA 8/2012 – 11/2012
Sr. Automation Engineer
Created a prototype for automated test environment based on Selenium for testing a flex-based application. Linux, application server testing.
Build VMware image set for remote manual testers and automatons
Creating System designs for high availability for e-commerce systems
Provided basic Selenium training in how to use the test system.
Programing test environment Java, Flash and Flex
Network auto configuration setups using Puppet and PowerShell.
Created tests for Jenkins continuous integration targeted at our VMware test systems.
Agile project managed with JIRA.
Visa - Foster City, CA 11/2011 – 6/2012
Sr. Performance Analyst - DevOps
Scripted automated testes in Cucumber and Selenium, web Services testing with SoapUI.
Created regression environments Linux hosted VMware regression targets in Ruby for the V.me system, WebLogic object services.
Created Chef run lists for server software config.
QTP tests for database tests, for Hadoop, cluster prototype and PIG scripts.
Wrote a Ul-regression script in Cucumber, Webrat, Selenium, for the web website testing.
Programing test environment test tools using, Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, PERL, Shell and Java.
Created tests for Jenkins continuous integration targeted at our VMware test systems.
Created Selenium and Squish regression test’s that were part of graphical and regression framework for iOS and Android
phone clients for the v-me credit card notification’s system.
Created tests for verifying JavaScript based touch applications as well as Selenium driven emulator, regression tests for iOS and Android applications native applications.
SS8 San Jose, CA 6/2011 – 11/2011
Sr. Automation Engineer
Built out virtualized VMware ESX 4 for automated software regression environment.
Scripted monitoring and configuration system using
Wrote a backup and install system for the SS8 messaging intercept system.
Wrote updated their Silk based regression tests.
Setup cellphone simulators for data collection and tracking.
Wrote a Ul-regression script in Python and Selenium, for the web interface for the ss8 system.
Setup test environment data intercept simulations for testing SS8 monitoring software.
Programing test environment test tools using, PERL, Shell (bash) and Java, PHP, JavaScript.
Adobe San Jose, CA 2/2011 – 6/2011
Sr. Automation Engineer Contract
Test automates and test cloud build system, developed test setups and test cases.
Code test cases written in Python, Java and JUnit.
Verified release migration system codex for latest release of CS 5.5
Tested final builds as returned from Production.
Built test tool for hashing data move written in Java.
Cisco San Jose, CA 5/2010 – 11/2010
Sr. Automation Engineer
Configured complex network setups routers, switches and code execution Linux systems for code testing Whitebox debugged crashes, in test scripts that were written in multiple languages, Java, TCL and C++, Bash, Expect.
Ported network crawling scripts that were original created for the Cisco router division to the Cisco enterprise switches division.
Configured hardware setups on the 4500 to 6500 K10 switches.
Setup Network monitoring using Nagios, Cobbler, and Puppet server configs.
Validating layer 2 and 3 protocols such as MPLS, RSTP, STP, etc., programming and setting up Ixia’s traffic generators for test case verifications.
Testing process used was would be waterfall.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE (Details available upon request.)
Symantec Mountain View, CA 9/2009 – 4/2010
Sr. Product Engineer Test
Yahoo Sunnyvale, CA 4/2009 – 8/2009
Test Lead Engineer
TiVo Alviso, CA 3/2008 – 9/2008
Server Test Engineer Contract.
Pixim Mountain View, CA 6/2006 – 11/2007
OA Manager
Efficient Frontier Mountain View, CA 8/2005 – 6/2006
Sr. QA Engineer
Spirent Communications Sunnyvale, CA 9/2003 – 1/2005
Test Engineer