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    Certifications
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        Feb 2023</br>
        <a href="https://www.credly.com/users/daniel-mason.2a91e126/badges" target="_blank">
            <img alt="PagerDuty Certified" title="PagerDuty Certified" src="/pagerduty.png" height="100px" width="100px"><br/>
            PagerDuty Certified</br>Incident Responder
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        May 2022</br>
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            Hashicorp Certified</br>Terraform Associate
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        Jun 2020</br>
        <a href="https://www.credly.com/users/daniel-mason.2a91e126/badges" target="_blank">
            <img alt="AWS Logo" title="AWS Logo" src="/aws.jpg"><br/>
            AWS Certified</br>Cloud Practicioner
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2023/05/28 <a href="https://opnsense.org/" target="_blank">OpnSense</a>
(<a href="https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/25e2c0a301e1437a98c8958637ca405a5fab21fa" target="_blank">25e2c0a</a>)
- Resolving static routes being created for on far gateways<br/>
2023/01/29 <a href="https://pixelfed.org/" target="_blank">PixelFed</a>
(<a href="https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4122/commits/55dc9b0aaa4623491387d06fcb83fc9e937e5e16" target="_blank">55dc9b0</a>)
- Resolve issue with backticks in raw SQL for postgresql migrations<br/>
2023/01/09 <a href="https://pixelfed.org/" target="_blank">PixelFed</a>
(<a href="https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4067/commits/52d65538cdfbebc73456db15390af3cfb8ee2d46" target="_blank">52d6553</a>)
- Update User artisan commands to match UserDelete<br/>
2022/02/15 <a href="https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws" target="_blank">terraform-provider-aws</a>
(<a href="https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/pull/23120/commits/5c45fc13a28d111abf44afe16246073dbe93c10c" target="_blank">5c45fc1</a>)
- Allow S3 lifecycle 'days' parameter in S3 transition lifecycle to be >= 0<br/>
2022/01/06 <a href="https://pixelfed.org/" target="_blank">PixelFed</a>
(<a href="https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/3122/commits/9cc18eb82acb46d2d8da22c66d12e55c192dbdb8" target="_blank">9cc18eb</a>)
- Fix for firstOrCreate failing hashtags with case differences on name column
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<h1 style="font-size: 1.6rem;" class="animate__animated animate__pulse animate__faster">Employment</h1>
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        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</h4>
        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">December 2022 - Current</p>
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- Architechting and building out microservices that interface with ElasticSearch for consumers.
- Rebuilding existing platforms to scale with a focus on performance and reporting.
- Implementing end to end Incident workflow and tooling.

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        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Site Reliability Engineer</h4>
        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">August 2019 - December ezy2022</p>
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My role at ezyVet is primarily focused around performance, uptime and cost across the entire platform, primarily working with PHP, MySQL, ElasticSearch and Redis.

- Maintaining services and patching latest versions for security and performance improvements.
- Writing complete automation pipelines on GitLab CI.
- Building a Golang application utilizing multiple best practice AWS services including<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;API Gateway websockets/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB/Lambda/Terraform.
- Incident response and improving process.
- Creating a docker engineering environment to improve development workflows and onboarding.
- Focus on reducing RDS load and improving SQL query times across the board.
- Completely rewriting Elastic Search service from the ground up to improve search times.
- Writing custom service monitoring tools in Go that interface with Slack/Pagerduty.
- MySQL performance optimizations and maintaining integrity across all environments.
- Introducing Grafana and reachitecting monitoring for observability.

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        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Devops Engineer</h4>
        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">October 2018 - August 2019</p>
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At Catalyst, I worked directly with several large corporate clients doing routine patching, performance improvements and general BAU. While primarily configuring CI/CD pipelines for full automated tested and deployments, I also gained experience with helm chart deployments into Kubernetes clusters hosted on OpenStack.I have also had the opportunity to gain more experience working with Puppet, Ansible and GitLab CI.

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        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Cloud Environment and Application Engineer</h4>
        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">March 2017 - October 2018</p>
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At ezyVet, I was primarily in charge of reviewing and merging code into our production environment as well as being our in-house DevOps/Infrastructure person. I occasionally did development work as well. In this position I gained vast experience in multiple areas as outlined below.

The position currently included the following responsibilities:
- Setting up and improving our CI/CD processes.
- Maintaining and constantly improving our environment. (AWS/Terraform)
- Setting up custom alerts / metrics with Cloudwatch & Grafana.
- Responding proactively to the above alerts to fix potential issues.
- Heavily involved in rolling out new technologies to our stack.
- Revision, escalation and resolution of tickets and other critical issues.
- Mentored Junior Developers through their induction into ezyVet.

DevOps:
- AWS: Consistently Improving our infrastructure to be efficient and reliable
- Linux: Daily experience with Debian, Ubuntu and Arch.
- CI / CD: Setting up and maintaining GitLab runners to run our Unit Tests / Automatic deploy pipelines inside docker containers.
- Packer/Chef/Vagrant: Building custom AMI images for AWS & Vagrant for our development machines.
- Terraform: Assisted migration of our AWS environments to code.
- Virtualization: Setting up Vagrant / Virtual Box environments that mock our production environment.

Programming:
- PHP: Building small features and day-to-day bug fixes as well.
- MySQL.
- Shell / Bash: Created custom scripts to achieve specific goals.
- Python / Node.js: Lambda functions in serverless.
- HTML / CSS / JS / jQuery.

Management:
- Code Review: In charge of reviewing all code before it gets merged in to our production branches.
- JIRA / Confluence / Freshdesk: Primarily used JIRA for ticket-tracking and Confluence for In-house documentation.
- Mentoring: I have taken on several junior developers over the 2 years to train them and assist them in becoming familiar with out code-base and work-flow.

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        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Full Stack Developer</h4>
        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">March 2016 - August 2017</p>
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Focused on building new features and improving our cloud environment and application.<br/>Primarily working with PHP.
