Jason M.

Consulting software architect for CREA, an e-commerce startup helping global brands sell in the rapidly emerging Southeast Asia marketplace.   * Designed data structures, frameworks, deployment platform, and basic technology for an e-commerce catalog management application.  A React-based frontend talks to a Django (DRF) based API backed by a PostgreSQL RDS instance.  Application is dockerized and runs on AWS ECS orchestrated by Convox, using CircleCI for continuous testing and build pipeline.   * Mentored team of junior and senior engineers, including daily code reviews focused on quality and security.   Digital nomad role working with a globally distributed team across three timezones. Note: Due to the Corona virus, CREA laid off nearly all staff including me.

Director of Devops at Everylayer, a startup building out wireless internet connectivity in Africa. * Digital nomad role working with a globally distributed team across five timezones. * Designed and built containerized production cloud infrastructure based on Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Load Balancer (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), and CloudFormation orchestrated by open source Convox management plane. Additional components are provisioned with Terraform infrastructure as code. This infrastructure provides high availability with hands-off failover, metrics-based autoscaling, and rolling zero downtime deploys. * Managed and mentored a small team of junior engineers, with a focus on skills development in devops automation, code quality, and proactive security. * Designed and built a continuous integration (CI) pipeline based on CircleCI. Pipeline functionality includes automated testing, security checks, and automated builds for both production and development. * Migrated customer-facing and internal Node.js production applications to the new containerized infrastructure. Production was able to handle a 100% traffic increase over 6 months while simultaneously reducing AWS costs. * Improved situational awareness and visibility by expanding legacy Zabbix monitoring system and adding CloudWatch dashboards and alarms. Enabled log aggregation and log analysis with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK). * Discovered and remediated several security vulnerabilities in production code.