Greater Philadelphia Area

nesta219@gmail.com

Professional Experience:

• Supported workloads across multiple clouds (AWS, Heroku, GCP, on-premises)
• Worked as a team lead to drive the modernization of legacy systems to AWS-cloud based solutions
  • Porting services from on-prem implementations to EC2 & Kubernetes-based solutions
  • Supporting the upgrade and modernization of database technologies to more modern, durable solutions (Amazon Aurora, Elasticache, Opensearch, etc.)
• Drove the implementation of CI/CD processes both from-scratch and from-existing legacy systems
• Managed infrastructure through Infrastructure-As-Code, including new infrastructure and the importation of existing ClickOps-based infrastructure into IAC control
• Worked with multiple teams across the organization on both day-to-day support and in helping to shape their long-term infrastructure visions.
• Deployed the AWX platform in order to automate historically manual processes

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• Supported the cloud infrastructure needs of engineering teams across the HBO Max & greater Warner Bros. Discovery organizations, with responsibilities that include:
  • Infrastructure-As-Code via Terraform, Cloudformation, Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, & More
  • AWS infrastructure management (EC2/ELB, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, Global Accelerator, & many more)
  • Participated in on-call rotation
  • DNS management (AWS Route53)
  • Kubernetes support & administration
  • Application & infrastructure CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • CDN configuration & management (Fastly, Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront)
  • Observability & monitoring (Grafana, Cloudwatch, Prometheus/Graphite)
  • GitHub organization administrator
  • Contributed to the implementation of an instance of Spotify Backstage, including custom plugin development
• Supported the global rollout of the HBO Max service
  • 3 major consumer markets across 5 AWS regions
  • Launched brand-new EMEA & LatAm markets
  • Large-scale AWS account migration from legacy accounts to more modernized accounts following AWS best practices
• Managed a small team of junior engineers to help them acclimate to the world of professional software development.
• Served as a team lead for a long-term project to revamp processes around Serverless application development & deployment across the entire organization
• Acted as a partner, mentor, and consultant for partner teams in order to help them provision, optimize, & understand the infrastructure used by their projects

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• Built and maintained a multitude highly-available cluster of AWS EC2-based microservices running on Ubuntu Linux
• Modernized dated CI/CD processes into a robust build pipeline using the AWS CodePipeline suite
• Configured external logging and monitoring solutions (Datadog, Loggly)
• Configured vulnerability scanning applications (Rapid7, CloudCheckr, SonarQube)
• Wrote and maintained numerous different configuration management templates using various tools for managing Linux servers & AWS infrastructure (Ansible, Cloudformation, Serverless Framework)
• Managed vendor relationships and helped to track cost projections
• Maintained & administered a multitude of data stores/message queues (AWS RDS, AWS SQS, AWS Kinesis, Kafka, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, Redis/Elasticache)
• Configured fully-parallelized automated testing suites utilizing Docker
• Migrated nginx/EC2-based front-end hosting to serverless AWS Cloudfront to scale to millions of simultaneous customers
• Worked to bring project structure closer to the 12 factor app paradigm

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• Built high-impact, fully-responsive features on the main web page
• Main navigation menus
• Large suite of reusable components
• Product browse page with customizable filtering options
• Supported CMS functionality in support of a wide range of teams: customer service, fulfillment center, product catalog team, & more
• Improved team-wide workflow and build processes by implementing Javascript & SCSS linters with a focus on code clarity and consistency
• Coordinated work & conducted code reviews for junior team members

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• Worked on all front-facing aspects of the NHL digital experience including NHL.com, all 30 club sites, mobile experiences, the stats application, and NHL Gamecenter LIVE streaming services.
• Worked closely with NHL CMS including working with editorial staff, developing features, and maintaining aspects of the digital experience as controlled by CMS.
• Experience in a fast-paced and often unpredictable media environment with hard deadlines.
• Experience developing new products with other engineers, in-house design teams, and subcontracted developers/design teams.
• Designed and built a new Javascript/CSS build system from scratch in order to better organize a broad codebase.
• Created an entirely new stats application utilizing SAP’s HANA database technology
• Work with external APIs including Twitter, Facebook, G+, and others.

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• Contributed to the development of a suite of light-weight, enterprise-caliber user interface components used throughout a range of Oracle products. Technology highlights include jQuery, Bootstrap, Underscore, D3, NodeJS, and Grunt.
• Use of server-side Java (including Spring framework) to create customized RESTful services to communicate with front end components.
• Use of HTML & (LESS) CSS to develop pretty looking, accessible interfaces.
• Use of multiple version control systems (Mercurial, Git)
• Use of unit testing suites to maintain code reliability.

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Certifications:

Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

• Credential ID: 3C0HL0C1G2R41DSM

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate

• Credential ID: QRDCC4CKNM14Q238

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Education:

University of Pittsburgh

• Master of Science in Information Science - 2012

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - 2010

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Side Projects:

HexT

• A mobile puzzle game roughly inspired by 2048 & Threes:
  • https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hext-addictive-puzzle-game/id1169807227
  • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Nesta.Hext&hl=en_US&gl=US

Get Off The Road!

• A YouTube channel featuring highlight-reel style videos which are automatically generated by collating clips from social media and combining them using an entirely automated, cloud-based process.
  • https://www.youtube.com/@get-off-the-road

Send-A-Secret

• A serverless website (built on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudfront, DynamoDB, and S3) which allows users to send a one-time message that will expire after being viewed.
  • https://send-a-secret.link/