Experience

Work

Darwin Walters Digital Solutions LLC (June 2018 - Present)

  • Developed automation and infrastructure for internal and customer-facing web applications.
  • Created scaling, backup and deployment solutions for HA database and data visualization clusters.
  • Implemented deployment and backup pipelines for enterprise-wide applications with zero downtime.
  • Provide cloud development and test environments to application teams across multiple AWS accounts.
  • Developed serverless in AWS web application solution utilizing S3, Lambda, and API Gateway.
  • Migrated heavily-used desktop data analytics application to Docker implementation hosted in AWS.
  • Engineered a pipeline for developers to deploy on-demand Docker instances, reducing dependency on local development setups.

Capital One (February 2015 - June 2018)

  • Developed CICD pipelines for live customer applications such as Credit Wise with no downtime.
  • Designed disaster-resilient infrastructure for Secured Card and other internal applications in AWS.
  • Developed reusable Terraform modules that allowed application teams to create their infrastructure in AWS.
  • Created Ansible playbooks to deploy and automatically scale applications with minimal dependencies.
  • Consolidated logging, alerting, and metrics by onboarding applications onto ELK cluster.
  • Created Jenkins jobs to run automated JMeter performance tests in AWS against Web and Tomcat applications.
  • Implemented Jenkins jobs and pipelines with JobDSL, allowing the jobs to be stored and modified as code.
  • Automate scaling and deployment of MongoDB cluster utilized by mobile application.
  • Wrote Cucumber scenarios and JUnit tests for tomcat APIs through test driven development.
  • Ported Java application deployment process to enterprise jenkins solution with Docker deployments to AWS.
  • Developed JMeter test plans for performance, load, and soak testing APIs.

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Class of 2014 - BS Electrical Engineering