Zscaler

DevOps Architect

Bluebeam, Inc.

Software Architect

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-   Participated in the Architecture Board, which governed best practices, cross-cutting concerns, and technical proposals
-   Introduced a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to address quality issues and reduce production incidents by 90%+
-   Led the organization of the first Architecture Summit to discuss high-level concerns and processes
-   Increased batch job processing throughput by 4x through hands-on troubleshooting and developer coaching
-   Designed API throughput performance improvements for a 10-15x reduction in deployment resources and related costs
-   Mentored engineers by sponsoring technical designs, offering career guidance, and enhancing technical skills
-   Promoted methodologies for performance testing and data-driven decision making
-   Developed strategies and systems for decomposing a monolith into microservices
-   Collaborated with the event bus team on designs for eventing and serverless functions
-   Improved testing frameworks and guided developers on Test Driven Development (TDD)
-   Worked with the Security Team to address security concerns and implement secure coding practices
-   Utilized Python, Google Cloud Platform/Functions, API First designs, Microservices, Dapr, Redis, Docker/container images, Kubernetes, MySQL, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Software Architect

Pulse Secure

- Served on the Architecture Board, responsible for determining overall software architecture and development practices
- Architected and led a team for the development of a Zero Trust microservice platform
- Coordinated security hardening, evaluation, and best practices for most Python-based software
- Designed and led the development of the Python framework at the core of most of the company's Python software
- Designed various features, including authentication token management, multi-tenancy, WebSockets, event messaging, RBAC, user management, certificate management/PKI, OpenAPI adoption, Docker image builds, Postgres migrations, async function queues, and inter-service APIs
- Advocated for Python Best Practices, API design, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
- Maintained several open-source projects core to the company's Python frameworks
- Coordinated Python 2 to Python 3 conversion of many microservices
- Utilized Python, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker/containers, Postgres, MySQL, Nginx (Lua), OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Terraform, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch

Principal Engineer/Architect

- Leader of team that converted newly acquired MobileSpaces's Mobile Device Management (MDM) software to Pulse Workspace
- Architect for Pulse One, a VPN server manager and orchestrator that is Docker based, SaaS and On-premise
- Team lead for conversion of Pulse One from a SaaS solution to a cluster-able, on-premise solution within 6 months. Its Docker based architecture can be installed on custom VPN hardware or ran in VMware

Senior Staff Engineer/Server Architect

Various startups and consulting roles

Through many years of software engineering, I gained a broad range of experience from various startups, consulting companies, and open-source projects. I've deployed to every major cloud hosting provider. I've been hands-on with every major programming language. I have developed SaaS, on-premise, desktop, and mobile applications. Some notable highlights include:

-   Co-founding a software contracting agency called Massive Forge, where we developed multiple applications using Python and Javascript. A client acquired the company.
-   Software Architect Consultant for several Hong Kong-based startups, including Libbler and Pingspot, where I developed applications using Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, and iOS.
-   MapMyFitness (acquired by Under Armour), a fitness tracking SaaS and mobile app, where I primarily developed with Python and Django. I also worked with Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java for analytics.
-   Zenoss, IT monitoring software, where I designed a new event processing and service monitoring suite as part of a project to convert the software from Python to Java.
-   A fintech startup called Bancvue Interactive (now known as Kasasa), where I developed SaaS products for community banks and credit unions.

Additional Software Engineer Experience

Pingspot

Pingspot (http://pingspot.com/) was "A fun, new way to record and recommend your favorite businesses.". It's an iOS application with a Python backend. For Pingspot I developed the mobile application as well as designed and developed the backend. The app graphics were designed and created by Catchlight Productions (http://www.catchlight.com/).

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, MongoDB, Redis, Foursquare API, Facebook API, iOS SDK, Heroku, Cloudinary

Software Architect Consultant

Libbler

Libbler (http://libbler.com/) is "The ultimate career launchpad for entry level professionals. Features include: resume builder and guide, comprehensive employer database for graduate, internship, entry level opportunities and practical industry advice to help develop career skills.". 

I designed and developed the original libbler.com from top to bottom -- except for the graphic design.

Technologies used: Python with Flask and Celery, Spine.js, Coffeescript, MongoDB, Redis, Oneall single-sign-on, Heroku and AWS

Massive Forge

A software contracting agency that I started with my business partners. We developed several applications, primarily with Python and Javascript. The company was acqui-hired by a client.

Co-Founder/CTO

MapMyFitness

- Maintained and developed new features for primary website platform using Python/Django and MySQL
- Developed new API platform using Python and Flask while utilizing Django ORM
- Developed new live race tracking platform using Flask and integrated with remote tracking services using Python and RabbitMQ
- Created APIs for mobile developers to integrate with race tracking
- Maintained fitness statistics reporting engine using Hadoop, Cassandra, and Java
- Created and maintained new unit test infrastructure using py.test
- Developed continuos build solution for development virtual boxes using VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Python

Senior Software Engineer

Zenoss, Inc.

Zenoss provides dynamic system monitoring for IT services across physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud infrastructures. The core of Zenoss is open source and built on Zope/Python, Ext JS, and MySQL.

- Helped wrap up development of UI refresh for 3.0 release
- Developed Dynamic Service View using Flex and yfiles
- Use Agile methodologies for software development
- Design new event processing and service monitoring suite which uses Java, RabbitMQ, SOLR/Lucene, and Neo4j.

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Mike Thornton

Indeed.com

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Python Software Foundation

PSF Fellow

Pyparsing

Designed open-source Python module for easy creation of parsing applications; wrote articles for Python Magazine and O'Reilly e-book, and presented at PyCon and PyTexas; release management on GitHub; ongoing support over maillist, wiki, and StackOverflow

Principal Developer / Maintainer

Fractallography Studio

Develop CGI abstract art on canvas, using a program I developed in the mid 80's. This program creates an abstract image using a fractal mesh, a process that takes an ordinary simple shape, and repeatedly applies a random warp or deformation, breaking it into smaller shapes. Each successive generation further deforms the sub-shapes, and an overall 3-dimensional effect emerges.

The randomness of the fractal mesh creates images that are similar to many patterns in nature: 
- the path of lightning through the air
- the shaping of a coastline, or of a mountain ridge
- the billowing of clouds in a storm, or smoke from a fire
- the flow of water as it erodes and shapes a hillside

I use a second process to add color to this mesh, so that images can be vivid and colorful or muted and pastel, and the generated pattern still evokes the patterns and forms of nature. The colorful patterns draw the viewer back again and again - often to discover a new shape or texture in the patterns of the fractal mesh. 

People invariably find one or two of my images that they find especially appealing, and I believe this is because the flow of color and shape in my images evoke the same flow of shape we see every day in the natural world. Just as we by nature are drawn to watch the embers of a fire, or the flow over a waterfall, or lightning across the sky, my images compel and draw in the viewer, to consider the complexity and beauty that emerges from simple natural processes and effects.

Creating my prints is a combined process of growth, discovery, composition, and finishing.

Visit my online shop at http://www.paulmcguireart.com/shop

Artist

infinite io

Python QA automation engineer for network storage controller hardware, monitoring NFS traffic to optimize metadata access and provide storage tiering. Custom testing framework implemented using Flask/requests/Python3, accessing remote Linux systems over REST and SSH. Architectural redesign and refactoring to accommodate new product features. Create forensic utilities for documenting test failures, including database and log file parsing and analytics. Network diagnostics/logging using Wireshark. Mercurial for SCM.

Principal QA Automation Engineer

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Python architecture and development for home automation and SaaS applications:
- Architected new SaaS product for home automation, on AWS (Python3, SQS, Postgres)
- Project organization, tracking, and release planning using Story Mapping
- Prototyped location-based app for Android using Java/Processing
- Developed custom DSL for graph database object configuration, in support of customer configuration modeled in Titan/Cassandra graph database
- Java/Groovy code enhancement/optimization, including 30% performance improvement in time-critical library graph traversal logic, and stabilization of crashing server using Shell object cacheing
- review and documentation of standardized coding and API usage practices for startup code base

Independent Software Consultant

Invensys Operations Management

Technical/operational support and consulting for premier customers in manufacturing, processing, and transporation automation applications.

Technical Account Manager

Server side development in Python, Javascript, and C/C++, on a distributed system administration and monitoring platform.

Sr Development Engineer

GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Developer of automation applications for equipment data collection and control; specializing in Wonderware distributed data collection and equipment integration systems

Sr Factory Automation Engineer, Member Technical Staff

Alan Weber and Associates, Inc.

Broad-based support of manufacturers, equipment suppliers and software suppliers to the semiconductor industry. Integration software development and deployment, training seminars on SEMI equipment data collection standards, consulting on software engineering practices.

Principal

A well-rounded applications developer, integrator, implementer, and sustainer, for mission-critical systems in world-wide installations.  Comfortable in software development, operations, and customer pre- and post-sales settings.

Specialties: Application development in: Python, C/C++, C#, Java.
Manufacturing applications (SPC, WIP Tracking, Equipment status tracking, equipment data collection, process trace data collection and storage, recipe download, DNC, MRP, MRP-II, computerized/computer-generated work instructions and process planning.

(Yes, that banner picture is one of my artwork pieces.)

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