Relevant Experience

• UPMC Enterprises  ·  February 2022 - January 2025
• Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Implemented an event driven security remediation system that allowed for nearly-instantaneous response to security events
  • Implemented a log forwarding and aggregation system allowing for simple cross-organization regulatory compliance
  • Implemented a StackSet deployment and auditing system to enable simple and consistent management of over 100 AWS accounts
  • Designed our team's approach to using AWS CDK with Python, including best practices and standards for development and security
  • Contributed to peer skill development

• UPMC Enterprises  ·  April 2021 - February 2022
• Software Test Engineer - Expert  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Researched Serverless technology and related processes to inform standards at both the team and company level
  • Developed a system to analyze product's Google Analytics data and dynamically create a load testing profile
  • Developed a system to enable control of Cloud Resources in our performance testing cluster from our chat-service

• Duquesne Light Corporation  ·  January 2020 - April 2021
• Continuous Testing Lead  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Principal engineer responsible for developing an automated testing framework using Python, Behave, Pytest, Pypom, Splinter, and Selenium
  • Worked with technical leadership to plan and develop the company's move to CI/CD processes for software releases
  • Built CI pipelines using Microsoft AzureDevops

• Arcadia.io  ·  September 2017 - October 2019
• Director of Software Engineering  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Managed a team of eleven engineers focused on using Ruby and Terraform to develop internal tools and testing infrastructure
  • Designed and oversaw the development of a highly scalable load testing system built using Python, JMeter, Taurus, and AWS Fargate
  • Directed development of an AWS-based Windows desktop application testing solution using EC2, CodeBuild, Terraform, Ruby, Appium, and Windows PowerShell
  • Built multiple CI pipelines using AWS CodeBuild and Terraform

• Turnitin  ·  August 2015 - September 2017
• Senior Quality Engineer  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Developed and maintained components of a highly-available microservices-based educational software product using Python and Docker on AWS
  • Built dashboards using React to communicate testing status to project leads hosted on AWS
  • Contributed to in-house developed container orchestration and discovery system using ECS on AWS
  • Created support and integrations into the Team's Slack bot to provide a convenient interface for internal tools
  • Architected and implemented test data generation microservices to create consistent testing data across the microservice cluster

• UPMC Enterprises (f.k.a. Technology Development Center)  ·  August 2012 - August 2015
• Lead Software Quality Engineer  ·  Pittsburgh, PA
• • Researched and implemented solutions in Ruby using automation tools and frameworks
  • Managed the team’s time and priorities as SCRUM master
  • Coordinated QA team resources and responsibilities as the Testing Lead for multiple teams
  • Advised other development teams on the topic of implementing test automation