Christopher Najewicz's Resume

resume.json

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    "awards": [
        {
            "awarder": "SUNY Buffalo Department of Media Studies",
            "date": "1999-06-01",
            "summary": "Awarded to outstanding digital work",
            "title": "SUNY Media Studies Senior Award"
        }
    ],
    "basics": {
        "email": "chief@beefdisciple.com",
        "label": "Infrastructure Engineer / SRE",
        "location": {
            "city": "Glenmont",
            "countryCode": "US",
            "region": "New York"
        },
        "name": "Christopher Najewicz",
        "profiles": [
            {
                "network": "Twitter",
                "url": "https://twitter.com/tehsuck",
                "username": "tehsuck"
            },
            {
                "network": "GitHub",
                "url": "https://github.com/chiefy",
                "username": "chiefy"
            }
        ],
        "summary": "Ever since my discovery of BASIC programming and a 300bps modem on Apple ][e as a kid, I have been passionate about technology and computers. Currently seeking challenging DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure role.",
        "website": "https://chiefy.github.io"
    },
    "education": [
        {
            "area": "Media Studies",
            "courses": [],
            "endDate": "1999-06-01",
            "institution": "SUNY Buffalo",
            "startDate": "1997-09-01",
            "studyType": "Bachelor"
        },
        {
            "area": "Computer Science",
            "courses": [],
            "endDate": "1997-06-01",
            "institution": "University of Maryland",
            "startDate": "1995-09-01",
            "studyType": "Transfer"
        }
    ],
    "interests": [
        {
            "keywords": [
                "French New Wave",
                "Neorealism",
                "Horror"
            ],
            "name": "Film"
        },
        {
            "keywords": [
                "Tacos",
                "BBQ",
                "Bourbon"
            ],
            "name": "Food"
        }
    ],
    "languages": [],
    "publications": [],
    "references": [],
    "skills": [
        {
            "keywords": [
                "JavaScript/ES6",
                "PHP",
                "Go",
                "Python",
                "bash/zsh/sh"
            ],
            "name": "Programming"
        },
        {
            "keywords": [
                "DigitalOcean",
                "GCP",
                "AWS",
                "Scaleway",
                "Linode",
                "Wasabi"
            ],
            "name": "Cloud Providers"
        },
        {
            "keywords": [
                "Ansible",
                "Terraform",
                "CloudFormation",
                "Vagrant",
                "InSpec",
                "Helm"
            ],
            "name": "Deployment Automation / IaC"
        },
        {
            "keywords": [
                "Swarm/UCP",
                "Kubernetes",
                "Docker-Compose"
            ],
            "name": "Container Orchestration"
        },
        {
            "keywords": [
                "Jenkins"
            ],
            "name": "CI/CD"
        }
    ],
    "volunteer": [],
    "work": [
        {
            "company": "Lifion by ADP",
            "startDate": "2019-06-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Migrated live Swarm/UCP clusters to AWS EKS",
                "Implemented JetStack's cert-manager, AWS Service Catalog and Prometheus k8s operators",
                "Supported teams migrating to Kubernetes ecosystem",
                "Mentored employees on Terraform/Ansible best practices",
                "Remote employee"
            ],
            "position": "Senior Infrastructure Engineer",
            "summary": "\"Defining the Future of Work\"",
            "website": "https://lifion.com/"
        },
        {
            "company": "nearForm",
            "startDate": "2016-04-01",
            "endDate": "2019-05-30",
            "highlights": [
                "Worked as F/T contractor on Lifion's infrastructure team, supported large microservice-based SaaS product",
                "90+ microservices deployed via Jenkins to Docker UCP/Swarm nodes in AWS",
                "Introduced Terraform to streamline standup of environments in AWS, promoted IaC",
                "Worked with Data Engineering team to test, deploy and troubleshoot Couchbase/Kafka/Redis/Mongo/Cassandra clusters",
                "Remote employee"
            ],
            "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
            "summary": "\"Helping Companies Succeed With NodeJS\"",
            "website": "https://www.nearform.com/"
        },
        {
            "company": "MadGlory Interactive",
            "startDate": "2014-01-01",
            "endDate": "2016-03-31",
            "highlights": [
                "Co-developer on OverDog XBox One application / XBox ADK",
                "Maintained high-traffic, legacy Symfony PHP application for large gaming company",
                "Developed ruby-based wrapper CD system for Docker micro-service based auth system in AWS",
                "Expert level of AWS EC2, Terraform, Docker, docker-compose required",
                "Performed code-reviews for teammates",
                "Contributed to open source projects on GitHub",
                "Contributed to client's internal Python-based AWS CD tooling project"
            ],
            "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
            "summary": "\"We Specialize in Building Legendary Game Platforms\"",
            "website": "http://www.madglory.com/"
        },
        {
            "company": "Apprenda",
            "startDate": "2013-01-01",
            "endDate": "2014-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Continued development on Apprenda's web-based UI written in AngularJS",
                "Provided legacy support for older jQuery/Knockout based UI",
                "Problem solved various Windows-related NodeJS issues",
                "Created Chef recipe for configuring and deploying Apprenda's Linux container",
                "Worked closely with QA engineers and wrote integration tests to run in legacy browsers such as IE8"
            ],
            "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
            "summary": "\"Apprenda is a PaaS software layer that works with your existing applications and infrastructure, while providing a future proof foundation for digital business growth..\"",
            "website": "http://www.apprenda.com/"
        },
        {
            "company": "CarmaLink",
            "endDate": "2012-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Provided developer support for clients using the CarmaLink API",
                "Authored NodeJS proxy API implementing OAuth1 2-legged auth to Carma's backend API",
                "Iterated on PHP-based website application which later became SaaS product, utilized AngularJS for frontend"
            ],
            "position": "Applications Engineer",
            "startDate": "2011-01-01",
            "summary": "\"The first vehicle management system designed for small businesses.\"",
            "website": "http://www.carmalink.com/"
        },
        {
            "company": "FutureMedia Interactive",
            "endDate": "2011-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Co-developed \"Nut Chuckin'\" iOS game with cocos2d",
                "Lead front-end engineer on large Cengage e-learning course \"3-2-1 Calc\" written in Backbone",
                "Engineer on several pharma-related iOS applciations"
            ],
            "position": "Software Engineer",
            "startDate": "2008-01-01",
            "summary": "FutureMedia Interactive provided interactive website and iOS consulting to customers such as Toshiba USA, Fingerpaint Marketing and Cengage Learning",
            "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/futuremedia-interactive"
        },
        {
            "company": "SUNY Research Foundation - PDP",
            "endDate": "2008-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Developed organization Intranet using Coldfusion and Model-Glue MVC Framework",
                "Ran successful server migration for client from legacy Coldfusion 5 self-managed server",
                "Implemented full-stack registration system for New York State's Tobacco Recovery Program"
            ],
            "position": "Programmer/Analyst",
            "startDate": "2005-01-01",
            "summary": "The Professional Development Program provides interactive and online professional courses and e-learning.",
            "website": "https://www.pdp.albany.edu/"
        },
        {
            "company": "Fishbucket",
            "endDate": "2010-01-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Created custom CakePHP CMS in PHP for Flash-based frontends",
                "Developed Billionaire Boys Club website with shopsite integration",
                "Performed ops and sysadmin duties on VPS for 20+ clients, required strong knowledge of LAMP"
            ],
            "position": "Web Developer",
            "startDate": "2003-01-01",
            "summary": "Fishbucket creates customized interactive websites and e-commerce solutions for some of the world's best hip-hop and entertainment acts.",
            "website": "https://www.fishbucket.com"
        }
    ]
}