Stephen Brown II

Software Developer, ObjectRocket, a Rackspace Technology Company

2019-10 — Present Remote

• Maintained legacy apps and in-house libraries in Python
• Began work in Golang developing new internal services using GoBuffalo framework
• Utilized local setup in Docker for all projects
• Worked in OpenShift and Kubernetes environments
• Developed Helm charts for deploying internal services in k8s
• Evaluated and documented use of AWS Fargate to deploy Prometheus metrics exporters connected to peered customer VPCs

Python | Docker | Git | Golang | Kubernetes | AWS

Automation Engineer - Global Linux Automation Engineers, Rackspace

2018-09 — 2019-10 Remote

• Worked with UK-based team as sole US member
• Helped maintain and develop Stepladder, a framework for employees to contribute tools with a common UI and deployment system
  • Frontend in Javascript, HTML, and CSS
  • Backend webserver in Python using Flask and MySQL
  • Client library (Librack) to interact with numerous API backends
• Implemented and configured deployments using Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins
• Designed and built Jenkins 2.x Pipeline for testing development Pull Requests
• Led team to implement better checks and consistency to improve and maintain code quality

Python | Ansible | Docker | Git | Github | Jenkins

Automation Engineer - Global SysAd Maintenance Team, Rackspace

2017-06 — 2018-09 San Antonio, TX

• Automated migration of scheduled maintenances to consolidate calendars, saving weeks of manual work
• Developed reporting and categorization tools for whole team use
• Wrote tools which enabled more efficient team workflows not otherwise possible
• Inverted traditional scheduling process to improve customer experience

Python | Linux | Git

Linux System Administrator - Global SysAd Maintenance Team, Rackspace

2015-05 — 2017-06 San Antonio, TX

• Quickly identified and proposed tools and training to make team process more efficient
• Contributed multiple features to team's jinja2-based templating system (Automaint)
• Developed an auto-numbering tool for maintenance templates using React
• Developed a custom UI that accesses the maintenance calendar backend and presented upcoming services using the fullcalendar javascript library

Linux | Bash | Python | Git | Flask | React

Linux System Administrator - Global Technical Support, Rackspace

2014-01 — 2015-05 San Antonio, TX

• Assigned to Enterprise customers with specific SLA resolution and response time requirements
• Installed, configured, updated and troubleshot services for customers such as OS level concerns, web server, database server, applications server and mail; including Apache, MySQL, PHP, FTP, SSH and DNS
• Contributed features and bug fixes to internal Python projects such as a password retrevial CLI tool (intensify), and general login automation CLI tools (overtime/hammertime)

Linux | Bash | Python | Git

Linux System Administrator, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School Of Public Health, Center For Communication Programs

2011-04 — 2013-12 Baltimore, MD

• Maintained and automated maintenance of servers for Drupal websites and multisites involving
  • Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP infrastructure
  • Physical and virtual CentOS 5 and 6 servers
  • Apache Solr search indexes
• Proposed and taught dev team about git and multiple environment workflow concepts
• Led team to adoption of git and a development > staging > production deployment workflow
• Designed Puppet configuration management to maintain and deploy to development and production servers
• Tested in local Vagrant environments

Linux | Git | Puppet

Software Test Specialist - Tier 3 Escalations, MICROS Systems

2011-01 — 2011-04 Columbia, MD

Solved tough problems or delegated them to the right people

Troubleshooting | Debugging | Testing

Counter Operations Agent, Geek Squad

2010-10 — 2010-12 Baltimore, MD

As a seasonal job fresh out of college, checking customer's PCs for viruses was the best I could do at the time

Windows | Service | UpSales

Technical Support Specialist, Solnet Network and Web Services

2010-04 — 2010-10 Baltimore, MD

Serviced Windows desktops, servers, and networking infrastructure as on-site technical support

Windows | Desktop | Support

Creator, Emcee

2018-01 — 2019-10

Learned client design practices and version controlled releases

Python | JSON | API | Types

Contributor, Stepladder

2017-10 — 2019-10

Learned remote collaboration and discussion skills while improving coding ability

Python | Javascript | HTML | JSON | API

Maintainer, Hammertime

2018-09 — 2019-10

Added features and fixed bugs in the hammertime tool while maintaining

Python

Maintainer, Librack

2018-01 — 2019-10

Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including interface guarantees and deprecation

Python

Contributor, Automaint

2016-09 — 2017-09

Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including deprecation

Python

System Administrator, Knowledge for Health

2011-04 — 2013-12

Jr System Administrator managing entire project's CentOS linux servers and Drupal websites

Linux | Drupal | LAMP

B.S. Computer Information Systems, LeTourneau University

2005-08 — 2009-12 Longview, TX