Senior Cloud Engineer - Platform & Tools Lead

DERRICK WELLS

STAFF CLOUD ENGINEER

Staff Cloud Engineer with 10+ years in analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of various enterprise level software and internet-based applications. Experienced with all stages of the development cycle from design with Adobe Creative Suite and software blueprints to deployment using Google Cloud. Strong background in management and leadership in an Agile/SCRUM environment. Proven leader with excellent interpersonal and motivational abilities to develop collaborative relationships among high- functioning teams. Exceptional problem solver with an aptitude for troubleshooting and the ability to quickly master any new skill, technology, or role. Highlights include:

• Version-Control

• Performance Analysis, Optimization, and Monitoring

• Data Structures & Algorithms

• Agile Methodologies

• Applications & Web Development

• Automation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, (HOME DEPOT), ATLANTA, GA 2020 - 2024 Staff Cloud Engineer – Platform & Tools Team 2020 - 2024 Developed and maintained rendering service and CI/CD systems for major e-commerce Google Cloud based platform with 152 billion in annual revenue.

• Mentored and assisted on a MERN stack application which included migrating Concourse to GitHub Actions, migrating from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry to add application tracing, ran performance testing on NeoLoad, ran analyze testing on Redis vs. other cloud storage options, and worked on multithreading optimization while testing various Compute Engine vCPUs.

• Coordinated and assisted with implementing Google SEO scores into deployment testing for Front End Developers to see how their code changes would impact current and historical scores by updating scripts pipelines for 50+ separate teams.

• Maintained a 100% site uptime for the 2021 and 2022 fiscal year and 99.98% for 2023 by working closely with SREs during production deployments.

• Regular monitoring and performance analysis while mentoring new engineers and being available when needed.

• Experienced with various interactive shells within YAMLScripts such as Go, Bash, Node, etc. GREENWAY HEALTH, LLC, Alachua, FL 2014 - 2020

NodeJS Engineer – QA (GreenwayAPI SRE) 2017 - 2020 Designed and engineered software that determined product quality and release readiness for enterprise level software recognized by KLAS Research as the 2018 & 2019 Category Leader for Ambulatory RCM Services with 120+ million in annual revenue.

• Contributed to the architecture and implementation of enterprise level software with a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented vs event driven design, data structures, CI/CD, monitoring and reporting, SLIs, SLOs, & SLAs.

• Designed and engineered API self-updating automation using web data extraction ending with product version controlled self- writing tests for over 600+ APIs using Node.js, Git, Jenkins, VMWare, Kubernetes, and Swagger.

• Experienced with using virtualization and container-orchestration system technologies such as VMWare, Kubernetes, and Docker to setup various server environments over various versions of Linux, Windows Server, and Node.js.

• Engineered RESTful automation web services over multiple products and versions using Node.js & .NET including network security protocols such as SFTP, HTTPS, and TLS/SSL with Linux TCP/IP if needed.

• Successfully translated software given to third parties for API AES encryption/decryption from .NET to include Node.js and JAVA ensuring secure and HIPAA compliant healthcare APIs.

• Experienced interfacing and integrating across multiple engineering areas and groups with ability to learn and assimilate technical information quickly.

NodeJS/Java Engineer - QA (Automation Technical Lead) 2014 - 2017 Engineered training & testing procedures that would enable those who were not previously experienced with coding to be able to write tests via code while developing the architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling, and common functions/methods for them to use.

• Engineered software that ran UI testing across multiple products and product versions with self-reporting and defect creation using cloud-based agile application lifecycle management APIs (VersionOne, Jira, Selenium, Protractor, WebdriverIO, Jasmine/Karma).

• Designed and Engineered Automation Content Management System's UI using ReactJS.

• Hosted sprint reviews giving presentations and answering questions from various directors on department needs and limitations and offered suggestions through research, demos, and technical designs.

• Removed need for various expensive software licenses by introducing open-source options. DERRICK WELLS **************@*****.*** PAGE 2

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, Gainesville, FL 2014 - 2016 Full Stack Developer

Engineered internet-based and single-page applications that worked on both Apple and Android devices using Swift, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, etc.

• Revamped UI and app interface for customer facing point-to-point communication site with 100,000+ unique visitors per month.

• Automated image optimization which reduced page load times by up to 35%.

• Developed sites such as psychicpower.com using JavaScript, Bootstrap, Angular, ASP.NET, PHP.

• Created web graphics and videos using Adobe Creative Suite.

• Engineered object oriented MVC-style components. INTERNSHIP

352, INC., Gainesville, FL 2014

Front End Developer

Designed, built, and maintained web sites, using authoring or scripting languages, content creation tools, management tools, and digital media at a Fortune 5000 digital agency.

• Contributed work on creating an internal content management system using the MEAN stack. (MongoDB, Express, Angular, & NodeJS).

• Studied and implemented agile methodologies from individuals who were working on AutoTrader and would go on to win clients such as Chik-Fil-A Peach Bowl, CNN, and the Atlanta Speech School. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud: Google App Engine, Google GKE, BigQuery, Google Cloud Datastore, Google Cloud Memorystore, Google Cloud Console, and Google Cloud IAM, Akamai

• Programming & Scripting Languages: C, C++, .NET, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, PHP, SQL, NoSQL, Python, TypeScript, Bash, Go, Perl, YAML

• Frameworks & Libraries: Node.js, Angular, Express, React, ASP.NET, jQuery, Bootstrap, Gulp/Grunt, NPM, GraphQL, GitHub Actions, Concourse

• IDEs, CMSs, DMSs: Visual Studio, WordPress, XCode, Eclipse, Android Studio, Visual Code, SSMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Jenkins, Jira, Neoload

• VMs & Containers: Kubernetes, VMWare, Docker

• Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Premier Pro CERTIFICATIONS

Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability, Google Cloud, Coursera, 2020 EDUCATION

Programming and Analysis (AS), Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL, 2014 Fine Arts (AA), SUNY, Herkimer, NY, 2008

AWARDS

1998 NY SkillsUSA Award for Extemporaneous Speaking VOLUNTEER

Alzheimer's Association - Team Organizer

MILITARY

Bradley Linebacker Crewmember (14R), US ARMY, 2001-2003 Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - Operation Southern Watch Army Service Ribbon

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