Magic

Director of Engineering

Coinbase

- Lead an organization that builds and improves features for USDC on the entire Coinbase ecosystem, providing customers more reasons to hold and use USDC.
- Lead a team to build Coinbase's first issued token, cbETH, a liquid staking version of staked ETH, providing new utility and liquidity options for Coinbase and DeFi customers.

Senior Engineering Manager

Amazon

Lead an organization in Amazon Retail Consumer Electronics that builds scalable features for all of Retail. Team built and supported the Compare With Similar Items table on the detail page, the In House Installments feature that allowed customers to pay for products with installments, and a Guided Search feature for mobile that provided a better UX for customers filtering down search results.

Software Development Manager

General Networks Corporation

Lead all engineering, product, sales & marketing departments that deliver custom workflow, document management and portal solutions to clients. Hands on product/engineering work for key projects that drive high priority client relationship growth.

COO/CTO

Lead teams of product/engineering to develop custom solutions in the workflow automation and intranet portal spaces. Design and develop custom Microsoft SharePoint add ons to improve customer UX.

Director of Professional Services

Lead a pod of developers to implement custom workflow automation solutions for clients. Scoping, TDD, implementation and ongoing KTLO/OE contracts for high profile customers.

Practice Manager

Martin Worldwide

Design, scope and build a web based marketing list count/delivery system with C#/SQL backend and jQuery/JavaScript front end. Included authentication, role based permissions, cart/checkout capability and automated list delivery.

Full Stack Developer

QuikStor

Email/Phone software support for a Storage Facility Management thick client application. Development tasks to resolve small bugs and create patches for high priority issues/clients.

Technical Support Specialist

I post about Engineering Leadership, Strategy and Optimization.
As a Director of Engineering at Magic with over 16 years of engineering experience, I have had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of teams and technologies. Throughout my career, I have taken on many different roles, from software engineer to technical lead to engineering manager. 

I have worked with startups as well as large organizations, and I have experience with managing/mentoring both ICs and managers. I have led teams in delivering products from ideation to launch and have experience working with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of a project.

Owen Runnals

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Staff Platform Engineer

Senior Devops Engineer - Infrastructure

BlockFi

Developing fully automated cloud platform infrastructure for 10B AUM crypto lender and exchange. 
Adopted ownership of RDS Database reliability across the org performing critical upgrades and enhancements.
FinOPS cloud cost optimization, reduced cloud spend by over 1.2M annualized in less than 45 days. 
AWS RDS, Aurora Serverless v2, DMS, CDC, ECS, Github Actions, Python Pulumi (python-terraform)

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Parsley Health

Developed a custom Github Actions plugin for tracking deployment metrics across different components and environments. Composed Drone CICD step configuration for generating Datadog metrics. Collaboratively planned with detailed command checklist, a staging and production kubernetes cluster maintenance operation. Developed custom Datadog dashboards for tracking development lifecycle metrics. Cut short due to covid impacts.

New Context

Created extensive kubernetes deployment configurations for microservices. Developing Jenkins pipelines for kubernetes and terraform on GKE GCP. 
Implementing a git managed kustomize templated reusable base model for kubernetes. Supporting multiple international developer teams as a devops resource with daily scrum standups. Mapping manual processes to automation.
GCP / GKE Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Jenkins

Senior DevSecops engineer

Infor

Building a high capacity time-series data platform for monitoring and alerting. High availability Kafka and TICK stack deployments. Scaling up to support thousands of telegraf metric nodes.  Architected and collaboratively implemented a monitoring check scheduling microservice lambda and api-gateway deployment.
Development of custom check types in Node.js puppeteer execution environment. Development of Python utilities and monitoring tools. 
Continuous integration, Jenkins, gitlab runners.

AWS, ECS,  Docker,  Cloud Formation, OpenAPI,  Lambda, Node, Microservices, CICD Jenkins.

DevOps Consultant

REAN Cloud

Was part of a small team spearheading an effort to implement the Department of Defense DISA SCCA secure reference cloud architecture in AWS Govcloud. Regular travel to Air Force base to perform in-depth technical audits and assessments of internal DoD applications and service for migration to the cloud.  Conducting interviews with respective government program owners and third party defense contractors. Cloud migration planning and testing.

Delivering large scale cloud migrations for the public and private sector with one of the top AWS Premier Service Providers. For my first project, leading a team with local and international resources to perform a cloud migration and performance test of an on-premises application for a multibillion dollar education company. Traveling to the far reaches of the United States for scoping meetings.  Team of 5 project agnostic direct reports, along with managing a project specific scrum based iterative delivery pipeline running daily standups with on and off-shore teams. 

Lead teams on projects to develop application architecture assessment documents. Designed a HIPAA compliant cloud application architecture for a Biotech company recommending a complete AWS infrastructure plan as well as advised on application refactoring to suit compliance.

AWS Architecture, Terraform,  HIPAA, Security, STIG, DevSecOps, DoD, SCCA

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