PYTHON FLASK/DJANGO, JAVA SPRING BOOT, ANSIBLE TOWER, LINUX (CENTOS, DEBIAN), OPNSENSE, PFSENSE, MERAKI, OPENVPN, WIREGUARD, NGINX, APACHE, SPLUNK, GRAFANA, RABBITMQ, POSTFIX, SENDGRID, CUPS, VMWARE ESXI, NUTANIX
INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISIONING & CONFIGURATION:
AMAZON WEB SERVICES - TERRAFORM - ANSIBLE - SALT STACK
CONTAINERIZATION AND ORCHESTRATION:
DOCKER - KUBERNETES - ECS - EKS
CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION AND DELIVERY:
GITHUB ACTIONS - JENKINS - GITLAB CI
MONITORING LOGGING AND ALERTING:
NEW RELIC - DATADOG - CLOUDWATCH - SPLUNK - PAGERDUTY
PROGRAMMING AND SCRIPTING:
PYTHON - JAVA - SHELL SCRIPTING
TEST AUTOMATION:
SELENIUM JAVA AND PYTHON - CUCUMBER
DATABASE:
MYSQL - PERCONA XTRADB CLUSTER
| SYSTEMS INTEGRATION SOLUTIONS | Site Reliability Engineer | August 2024 - Present | Current |
| BILL.COM | Software Engineer II | July 2022 - August 2023 | 1 yr 2 mo |
| Site Reliability Engineer | April 2019 - September 2022 | 3 yr 6 mo | |
| TREEZ INC | DevOps Engineer | September 2015 - February 2019 | 3 yr 6 mo |
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Here are some things I've worked built in my home lab
The TF Templates in this repo establish the foundational AWS infrastructure, including IAM users, groups, policies, and VPCs. IAM access keys are securely stored in HashiCorp Vault, enabling microservices to autonomously manage AWS resources within granted permissions.
Learn moreThese Ansible Playbooks automate the deployment and configuration of system components and application configurations for a complex multi-service infrastructure, virtually eliminating any need for a human (me) to hack away at the CLI console.
A Java SpringBoot REST API server that sits in front of a Percona XtraDB cluster to decouple applications from direct database access. It is horizontally scaling with Kubernetes, and adhears to SOLID Object-Oriented and 12 Factor App principles.
Learn moreThis is a Python Flask based functional backend microservice that receives HTTP requests and translates then forwards them. Currently only used to translate and forward remote trigger calls to Jenkins as part of the CICD pipeline.
Learn moreMy partner has some projects of her own and I build and deploy them for her using my pipelines.
This is a supposed to be a demonstration of devs owning their infrastructure.
I dropped out of school to join a friend's startup company and we "cowboyed" ourselves a product people were willing to pay for and achieved Series A funding. The people I worked with were the kindest and most passionate people I've ever met, and together we built one of the best products in our market. At the time the chaos sucked, but looking back, it was one of the best experiences of my life.
After that I joined BILL to work with some structure and learn how a bigger and more mature company operates. It was there I also met some pretty great people and worked on some pretty fun projects. One of my fondest memories there were the late night gaming LAN parties where people would bring in their gaming computers and play video games in the office after a late night fail over drill.
Out side of tech stuff, I was born and raised in the Bay Area in an immigrant family that escaped from Vietnam by boat after the war. I'm a big fan of public transit and walkable cities. In my free time I'm an advocate for Transit Oriented Development. I'm also a fan of motor sports, specifically Rally Racing and more specifically the era where Colin Mcrae (RIP) and Travis Pastrana raced Subarus between the mid 90's - mid 2000's. That era of the WRC is why I own a 2004 WRX. I also liked Group B, the sound of the Audi Quattro S1 is amazing and the Lancia 037 win was a great underdog story. I also enjoy cooking, sporting clays, aquaponics, and video/tabletop games.
Where did the name Levantine come from?
A long time ago I played a game called Valkyrie Profile and at certain point in the game, the main character finds the Demon Sword "Levantine". I thought the name was cool at the time, so I adopted the name
for my online persona and I've been using it ever since. That's it, that's the story.
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