I work at CBN in R&D using Azure Cloud! My job title is Cloud Architect, but I've been in the business for over 25 years. I am equally comfortable at all stack levels, from 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation to VMs, SQL, noSQL, Containers, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messenging, IAM, Otel spans, and more. I have built production systems using Java, python, C++, C, Javascript, T-SQL, PL/SQL, OpenAPI, and more.
Here are my most recent credentials.
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Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) |
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) |
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DevOps Leader (DOL)® |
Check out my gists. You might find them interesting for cloud-automation tasks and other random things.
Other interesting places I worked include:
- Celtx, where I worked for 10 years as a Senior Systems Programmer and jack of all trades using AWS and Google Cloud Platform. I am very proud of my work at Celtx, and I think the founders would agree that I played a key role in both the success of the product from a cloud and DevOps perspective, and even played an important role in the cloud due-diligence related to their recent acquisition by Backlight.
- Verafin (recently acquired by NASDAQ), where I used AI/ML to build fraud detection analytics for their FRAMLx solution
- Collaborative Network Technologies (ColabNet) for 10 years, where I was a co-owner for most of that. I was so proud of the work we did at Celtx; so many cutting edge research projects, for example:
In addtion to cutting edge research projects, I was instrumental in helping several multinational businesses in the Atlantic Provinces achieve their technical goals:
- Oracle Corporation - I represented Consilient in Redwood City, CA as principal integration architect on BlackBerry integration with Oracle Collaboration Suite
- Michelin Canada - I was laboratory instructor for J2EE training in WebSphere technologies and tutored local Nova Scotia staff on Michelin's own "Xnet Framework".
- SUN Microsystems - both as a subcontractor for J2EE/ANTLR work, and a presenter for J2EE tutorials.
In 1996, after learning of the web for the first time, I built and deployed likely one of the very first public facing WWW Servers (at Memorial University). Back then, the number of active websites were measured in the 1000s, whereas now over 10,000 new websites created every day.
Shortly after my web server deployment, I won a job competition posted on USENET, and I found myself responsible for the setup and maintenance of the Canadian Technology Network's first website, hosted on a SUN Microsystems UltraSPARC. It was there, under a very talented DBA that I learned how to program, write CGI scripts, and use these scripts to integrate third-party systems (like Oracle and cc:Mail), back before PCs even had TCP/IP stacks (remember Novell IPX/SPX, token ring?)