I do left-brain things in right-brained ways.
I value pragmatism over dogmatism, and rational compassion over hierarchy. I believe that any problem is solvable and any system is buildable when reduced to first principles and its most discrete parts. A dash of creativity, lots of grit, and good people are also required. This applies unilaterally (within context and with respect to nuance) to people-centric, process-centric, and technical challenges. Passion, creativity, and inclusiveness are the possibilities I seek to create and participate in wheresoever I go. I find problems - both human and technological - to solve, and believe that the decentralization, autonomous governance, and democratization of information, information systems, and technologies is the future we should be working toward. I like building systems of people and things, capitalizing on the way process and people can catalyze development and innovation, technological utility, ethical behavior (as producers of products and technologies) and alignment with business objectives - primarily in software, the blockchain, and tech. I'm a big fan of Conway's Law, Eliyahu Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, and persistent feedback loops (OODA Loops are your friend). I spend time studying and applying abstract concepts like these to the way I architect systems, engineer software, and the ways in which I lead teams and projects, translating theoretical strategy and principles into tactical execution and material successes.AWS - Route53 DNS, EC2, Elastic BeanStalk, Elastic Load Balancing, RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFormation, VPC, S3, IAM, Glacier, Elastic MapReduce, RedShift, Lambda, Kinesis (FireHose), SNS, SQS, API Gateway, ECS, etc.
Scripting/Languages - BASH, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Python
Infrastructure/Configuration As Code – Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Ruby SparkleFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS (Tectonic)
Centralized logging - GrayLog2, Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana, rsyslogd
Monitoring & Metrics – DataDog, LogicMonitor, Zabbix, Nagios, Zenoss, Beats (formerly PacketBeat), Splunk, PagerDuty, AirBreak
Continuous Integration & Deployment – RunDeck, Travis-CI + Docker, Cucumber, Jenkins, Heaven, Capistrano
Databases - MySQL/MariaDB/Percona XtraDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop ecosystem, PostGreSQL
Java - Performance troubleshooting, JVM/garbage collection tuning, connection pooling, session persistence, Hibernate/ORM
We are GRÜV. We love music. We empower artists and their fans. We democratize systems of people and things. We build novel technologies.
Like any clever early-stage initiative that's realized it's onto something good, we're maintaining our stealth. So, for now, we can't share much else.
We are a small - but growing - team of technologists, artists, engineers, economists, music professionals, cryptoarchitects, and legal professionals passionately building the music markets and publishing tools of tomorrow...and a few other cool things, too.
A Blockchain-backed application that adds a layer of assurance, security, and immutability to the process of last will and testament distribution, aiming to reduce conflict between family members and eliminate fraud.
We are developing coherent, reliable, performant, secure, and decentralized infrastructure and software.
My team builds hybrid software, platforms, and information systems that capitalize on the best characteristics of conventional, battle-tested web technologies in conjunction with the unique technological, cryptographic, and social possibilities that blockchain implementations (and their appendant governance protocols and inbuilt constitutions) have to offer.
I joined Kernel as one of their first industry professional hires. I worked in a relatively self-directed fashion, and reported directly to the Founder/CEO (Bryan Johnson) and COO. During my time there, I began to structure and hire a software & systems engineering team. Among many other things, I partnered with our scientists and researchers by architecting, building, and advising in their development of bleeding-edge platforms, pipelines, and software related to neurotechnology and neuroscience.
"Kernel is building advanced neural interfaces to treat disease, illuminate the mechanisms of intelligence, and extend cognition."
Due to the nature of our work, the protection of trade secrets, and Non-Disclosure Agreements, I cannot say much more about my work there than the following: I architected and engineered useful systems of technology, software, and people to further our explorations of the human brain and neuroscience.
I joined ChowNow to take ownership of their infrastructure at large (corporate & product platform). I began to hire, coach, and manage a growing DevOps team. We dovetailed their PCI Level-1 Attestation and 3rd-party audit compliance cycle into an extensive rearchitecure of both the client-facing application, as well as their AWS infrastructure.
I joined ULive in order to transition and take lead ownership of DevOps & CloudOps from the VP of Engineering.
I rejoined Doctorsoft in order to help them scale out and revamp their systems and operations during a period where they doubled their customer base. I maintained an advisory/senior consultancy with them once that objective was accomplished.
I joined Connexity as their first DevOps hire in order to help them establish DevOps practices, automation, and useful development/configuration/deployment toolchains.
I joined Invitae with the hope of participating in an exciting early-stage startup.
Doctorsoft was looking for a SysAdmin to help them scale and achieve production readiness. I quickly began to collaborate with both the development team and management, adapting to occupy a unique and challenging role.
I began my career at Alchemy as a NOC Technician with basic monitoring, security, server installation, and network troubleshooting duties. I grew to assume the role of SysAdmin, helping manage our core/flagship NOC.
"The Hack Reactor immersive is focused on building autonomous, fully capable software engineers."
Reference link: Curriculum Overview
"Learn how to create Rack middleware, Sinatra applications and complete Ruby on Rails applications."
Reference link: Curriculum Overview
Reference link: Curriculum Overview
Reference link: Curriculum Overview
Reference link: Curriculum Overview
Lambsible is an AWS Lambda-based implementation (albeit hacky) of Ansible. It is guided by 'serverless' principles and is a proof-of-concept exploration of a push/API/event-driven model of exposing and utilizing the Ansible API - inspired by and based on a post by José Coelho.
xtendEMR is a simple toolkit for hooking into Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce bootstrap process in order to include custom scripts, configurations, and packages without having to bootstrap your own Hadoop cluster. Initially, it was intended for addressing a bug in the EMR stack that our organization identified for AWS. AWS later patched the bug based on our work with their support engineers and architects. By then, this little toolkit had taken on a life of its own, so we continued to use it.
An "MVP-first" project spanning all of one week, Cvrcle was an app my team and I built as an exploration of crowd-sourced trip and travel itineraries. Although we all owned full-stack features, I spent much of my time building out the back-end/API, the relational data model, and all of the object-relational mapping and validation. I also implemented a simple asynchronous authentication scheme by using Auth0 with Facebook sign-on, and managed the users's profile/session/authentication statefully with Redux & some simple thunks. Core functionality has been implemented, and we are currently waiting for FaceBook's approval before we can implement the final piece, which requires a subset of specific permissions for the Graph API.
Stack: React, Redux, ObjectionJS + Knex, Node+Express, Semantic-UI, Amazon RDS, Terraform, Ansible
For our HackReactor "thesis" project, we have decided to build a mobile-first web application that ties Augmented Reality, digital information exchange, and geolocation together. It is comprised of our own API, an online web client for creating and tracking digital dead-drops, and a native iOS app with some simple A.R. for finding and retreiving "Stelth-drops."
Stack & Tooling: React, ImmutableJS, React-Native, React-Native-Motion-Manager, Redux, Redux Sagas/Observables, XCode (for building & deploying the mobile app), ObjectionJS + Knex, Node+Express, Semantic-UI, Amazon RDS, Circle-CI, Terraform, Ansible
The Eagle is the highest recognition that Scouting offers to Scouts. It is earned through the advancement program, and only a small percentage of boys who begin in Scouting receive this honor. The wearer of the Eagle award is the epitome of Scouting's best efforts, beliefs, and leadership.