SEEKING WORK: Seattle / Remote
I'm potentially leaving a full time gig and looking for a short term contract.
I'm a devops / systems engineer with a ton of AWS and puppet experience.  My main responsibilities of late have been migrating huge production applications out of a traditional hand built datacenter environment into a fully automated and autoscaled AWS environment, as well as being a lead on the architecture of brand new environments for new projects.
I am largely self managed and independent, and I pride myself on thorough information discovery prior to building anything.  I also complete projects with excellent documentation.
Some bullet points:
- 12 year career in building and supporting production web applications
- 8 years experience on AWS
- 3 years experience with puppet
- Wearing a developer hat, I have also built production stable applications in rails, php, and nodejs
- At my current job, I am a lead engineer on supporting our flagship products supporting $100MM+ revenue
- In 3 years I have built, automated, and/or maintained upwards of 110 separate production environments
- In general, I don't maintain an ego, I don't add risk by way of over-confident planning, and I am huge on transparency and documentation.
That's a brief introduction.  Contact me if this sounds like what you are looking for and I can send you a resume.  I'm interested in finding the right fit, where I can jump in and quickly start adding value.
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