Goals

• To build tools that help other people work better and faster
• To write well documented code that answers questions before they are asked
• To achieve fluency in the Japanese Language

Work History

LINE Fukuoka

May 2016 - Current

Upsight

September 2011 - December 2014

Analytics and marketing platform for web & mobile app developers.

Development VM Environment

Starting from an original version created out of fabric and shell scripts, and transitioning to a version using saltstack, built a developer environment to collapse the major parts of Kontagent’s infrastructure into a single virtual machine for development.

Tools Used

• SaltStack
• Python
• Bash
• Xen
• git
• Fabric

Testing and Release Engineering

Took over and expanded TeamCity testing environment configuring it to handle a majority of different components across the Kontagent stack. Built tooling to better link Atlassian tools to a git-flow workflow

Tools Used

• TeamCity
• nosetests
• maven
• Atlassian Stash
• Atlassian JIRA
• git

Production Automation

• Expanded the tools used with the development environment, lead the conversion of many of the remaining systems to be deployed using configuration management.
• Lead cross-engineering training to ensure each engineering team had a primary “automation” contact to assist teams in placing all systems under configuration management.

Tools Used

• SaltStack
• Python
• git
• Bash

Legacy Support

Supported legacy ETL systems by improving error handling and monitoring

Tools Used:

• Icinga
• Python
• OpenTSDB
• tcollector
• MySQL
• Fabric

WeGame.com

March 2008 - August 2011

A social platform for gamers, which allowed them to build a gamer-social-and-interest graph through other users’ recommendations

At WeGame I was the lead web engineer where my responsibilities covered work on the main web site, media processing system, and server infrastructure .

• Worked with other developers to rewrite entire WeGame site which was launched in November 2008 using the Kohana framework
• Wrote core of video processing system and continue to maintain media processing infrastructure using Python and FFMpeg
• Wrote system for deploying code to remote servers using subversion then switching to git
• Wrote admin system used by staff to control various aspects of running WeGame.com
• Configuration and management of servers used to run WeGame (Web, Database, Media, Utility)

Tools Used

• PHP
• Python
• MySQL
• jQuery
• FFMpeg
• SphinxSE
• Nagios
• Git
• Mac OS X
• RHEL 5

Department of Soil Science - North Carolina State University

May 2005 - August 2007

While studying Computer Science at North Carolina State University, I worked for the Department of Soil Science in their Distance Education office. My responsibilities were balanced between general system support for students and faculty, and other assorted computer tasks.

• Configured and supported Windows workstations (2000, XP) for Faculty and Students
• Configured and maintained Linux file server, web server, and domain server (samba, apache, ldap)
• Updated and maintained department and faculty web sites (php, mysql)

Tools Used

• PHP
• Xen
• Samba
• Ldap
• Windows XP
• Fedora Linux

Education

Fukuoka YMCA

April 2015 - Present

Japanese course

Genki JACS

January 2015 - March 2015

Short term Japanese course

Department of Computer Science - North Carolina State University

August 2005 - December 2007

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

Awards / Qualifications

• Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 - July 2015
• Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America - February 2003