Ted Wood

2022/11/11

Systems Engineer

Self taught and motivated professional consistently recognized for providing high level technical expertise and creative solutions to hard, large scale problems. Proficiency with Kubernetes, Unix operating systems and Puppet as well as Jenkins, Terraform, and Python for automating cloud infrastructure.

Business Skills

Software Development

Several years of working in Python for day-to-day projects and application development. Professionally, I’ve used Python to develop everything from web applications using Django to gluing disperate backend APIs and cloud services together. Personally, I’ve used Python to create home automation services, automate the scraping and wrangling of large data sets and data streams for crypto exchanges and other third party financial platforms for high frequency trading activity, as well as created bots for platforms such as Discord and Slack.

Deep understanding and proficiency with writing shell scripts in Bash. Most of the time I prefer to do these tasks in Python, however.

Entry level working knowledge of Go. I have worked on a number of projects that are written in Go but generally still prefer working in Python when practical. To put it bluntly, if hired to work exclusively with Go, I would need a bit more time to re-familiarize myself with the language to the point at which I am familiar with Python, but I would have no trouble or objection to working in the language full time.

Terraform and Google Cloud

I was the Lead Engineer in the development of a maintainable and scalable solution for cloud resources management within GCP. Extensive experience working with Terraform in conjuction with Atlantis, Python, and Jenkins to automate the testing and deployment of infrastructure code maintainined in a large shared git repository.

Kubernetes

Member of a small team responsible for developing and driving the adoption of Kuberentes and service based architecture as a replacement for an aging monolithic application and system stack.

Puppet

Used puppet to manage a fleet of over 2000 physical servers across multiple datacenters. Comfortable with all aspects of puppet management from module developement to the creation and maintenance of roles and profiles for a variety of system classifications.

Unix Operating Systems

Almost 20 years of home Linux use and 12 years of professional use. Primary familiarity with RedHat Enterprise Linux (CentOS) and secondary with Ubuntu Linux. Intermediate experience with FreeBSD for use of ZFS based network file storage.

Professional Experience

Intuit Mailchimp

Senior Software Engineer – 2016 - present

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Senior IT Support Professional – 2011 - 2016

CareStream Dental Systems

Helpdesk Support – 2009 - 2011

iLearn Inc.

QA and Technical Support – 2008 - 2009

Personal Interests