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+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <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 - Current</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
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+My role at ezyVet is primarily focused on improving performance and response time across the full stack from PHP, MySQL and ElasticSearch improvements to optimizing AWS usage and cost.
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+- Pushing for latest versions of services to keep frameworks up to date and utilize any performance improvements (PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis upgrades)
+- Building automation pipelines through GitLab CI
+- Experience building a cross-platform Go application utilizing Websockets with AWS API Gateway and SQS/SNS/DynamoDB/Lambda/Terraform
+- Creating a full docker development environment for engineers to improve development workflows
+- Reducing RDS load and improving SQL query response time via query restructuring to make better use of compound indexes and foreign keys
+- Rebuilding Elasticsearch clusters to improve redundancy and response time with optimised indexes
+- Writing custom service monitoring tools in Go that interface directly with Docker, ElasticSearch and PHP-FPM
+- Optimising MySQL parameter groups to get the most out of each instance
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+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px; margin-left: 5px">
+        <img alt="Catalyst IT Logo" width="90" title="Catalyst IT Logo" src="/catalyst_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">Catalyst IT</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Devops Engineer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">October 2018 - August 2019</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
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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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+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <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;">August 2017 - October 2018</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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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+<br/>
+<div style="display: flex;">
+    <div style="flex-direction: row; margin-right: 20px">
+        <img alt="ezyVet Logo" title="ezyVet Logo" src="/ezyvet_logo.png">
+    </div>
+    <div style="flex-direction: row">
+        <h3 style="margin-top: 5px">ezyVet</h3>
+        <h4 style="margin-top:-16px; color: #afbac4">Full Stack Developer</h4>
+        <p style="margin-top:-20px;">March 2016 - August 2017</p>
+    </div>
+</div>
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+Focused on building new features and improving our cloud environment. Primarily working in PHP.