Helm

Instead of splitting devops and infrastructure and tests completely separate from development teams, I moved the needle so that product development teams could own more of their own infrastructure and tests, creating less back-and-forth and empowering teams to deliver.

We used Devspace, which meant any dev or team could stand up a reproducible, isolated stack with multiple services and frontends running, in the cloud, as well as modify the definitions of the infrastructure and code themselves, directly, without permission or external team tickets.

This enabled product engineers to do more experimentation and testing thru declarative infrastructure and configuration management while still protecting our production environments, unlocking their shackles and potential as the experts in the software.

At the same time I worked to reduce the outsized role our amazing DevOps team was playing in the day to day management as well as enhancement of environments, which unfairly impeded expert developers by introducing red tape and inter-team processes that didn't add value.

My PM and the business wanted to illustrate to other teams that a fast-paced, fail-fast approach where we released daily (as opposed to 1-3 times per year) would serve us much better in that we could learn quickly, iterate and pivot, without huge costly investments into products that did not meet expectations or deadlines.

Before hiring my team, I set up a CICD pipeline and basic framework of a site that could sustain a heavy and intense crawl from google.

New hires all released to production on their first day of work - a principle I had brought to the table, that it should be so automated and simple that someone could set up and deploy a small feature within their first few hours of working at Sourceability.

Our parts and datasheets website, which also incorporated proprietary availability and quality scores, was used - within 3 months of inception - to successfully sell a 3 year Analytics API contract to an international multibillion dollar company, as well as driving organic traffic and learning how to scale to sustain google crawls of the hundreds of thousands of electronic component parts in our inventory while scaling down outside of the crawl / high-traffic moments.

• Full Stack - React, NodeJS, Typescript, Kubernetes, Gitlab
• Functional Reactive Programming - RxJS, highlandjs
• Daily Production Deploys - Canary Deployment w/ K8s
• Constant Collaboration - No “throwing over the wall”
• CI/CD Automation Pipeline - Every user story gets an instant shareable environment
• Coaching / Mentoring / Leading diverse team

A portal bringing together version control, automated test definitions and statuses, quality metrics, jira tickets, CICD jobs, and supportinginfrastructure definitions and status into a single place to aid in release management and devops practices.

Behind the scenes, pipelines made with K8s (Kubernetes), Mesos, Github and Jenkins automatically provisioned environments, deployed our software and ran extensive tests on it, including complex multi-cloud platform scale tests across Google Cloud and AWS as well as on prem with bare metal and Open Stack