Jonathon Brouse
Collingswood NJ 08108__ | jbrouse19[at]gmail.com | __jonbrouse.com
Summary
Proven technical and talent leader, mentor and bridge between product ideation and operational excellence with 15+ years experience, spanning multiple business verticals such as IoT, e-commerce, Quality Management Systems (QMS) for clinical trials, and virtual care management. History of improving value stream efficiency and reducing time to market through deep knowledge and application of Agile product development, lean software development and DevOps practices. I am a servant leader and team advocate for healthy communication, work life balance, mental health and professional development.
Experience
Director of Engineering | NeuroFlow | August 2021 - January 2023
- Established and matured engineering processes and practices, reducing risk, bugs and deployment time.
- Managed teams and individuals while working across the org to ensure we focused on generating value.
- Architecture, SDLC, cloud operations and Agile SME, product owner and mentor with a focus on interoperability.
- Primary architect for event driven systems which reduced the risk of platform performance issues when implementing customer facing, external API’s.
- Worked across the organization to guarantee platform uptime SLA of four 9’s (99.99%).
Cloud Architect | New Light Technologies | May 2021 - July 2021
- Led the planning and design of cloud solutions, configurations and migrations.
Lead Security Engineer & SRE | Blackfynn Inc. | July 2017 - April 2021
- Technical lead during CFR Part 11 and HIPAA attestation process
- Leverage Terraform to manage a microservice environment
- Worked with Data Science team to architect an ETL pipeline for ingestion of various data modalities such as MRI, time series, and video
- Provided and hosted a whitelabel solution to screen applicants in drug trials
- Provisioned AWS organizations to enable the hand off and archive of resources after grants end
Contractor | Dodge Data & Analytics | March 2017 - July 2017
- Architected and implemented a container deployment solution using ECS, ALBs, and Terraform
- Deployed AWS infrastructure such as Lambda functions, SQS queues and SNS topics in a microservice environment
Senior Engineer - DevOps Lead | SingleComm | January 2017 - March 2017
- Created a value stream map and requirements Kanban to ensure stories were “ready” and work was visible
- Implemented a VPN and LDAP solution. LDAP was used for SSO to log into the VPN and other internal tools
DevOps Engineer | Sparta Systems | June 2016 - January 2017
- DevOps and Agile coach/mentor
- Architected and implemented AWS Terraform deployment solution
- Architected and implemented S3 virus scanning service
- Contributed to QA test automation
DevOps Engineer | Zonoff | May 2014 - May 2016
- Led the adoption of Docker within a microservice architecture supporting IoT devices (Java/Spring, Python, PHP, GO-Lang, Debian Repository)
- Introduced infrastructure as code (Puppet, Terraform, Packer)
- Architected deployment solutions and services to provide code visibility within environments
- Managed Rackspace infrastructure (Cloud Servers, Load Balancers, DNS, Storage Volumes, CDN)
- Managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, ELB, AMI, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, IAM)
- Managed continuous integration tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory)
- Attended recruiting events like IoT Meetups and Hack PSU
Open Systems Administrator | Lilly Pulitzer | August 2013 - April 2014
- Worked with the Manager of Engineering in regards to general infrastructure architecture and design
- Implemented Puppet, Nagios, OSSEC, Logstash (Elasticsearch and Redis)
- Worked with outside vendors to implement a Tomcat based e-commerce platform
- Worked within the guidelines of PCI and SOX compliance
Systems Administrator | Managing Editors Inc. | November 2012 – August 2013
- Introduced DevOps to the organization
- Introduced Puppet for server provisioning and configuration integrity. Decreased deployment time by 75%.
- Implemented and supported Django tablet app used by Condé Nast (GQ, Vogue, Wired, etc.)
- Took part in stand up scrums.
- Implemented Nagios, OSSEC, Logstash (Elasticsearch and Redis)
- Managed AWS infrastructure: EC2, ELB, AMI, S3, SES
- Provided Level II customer support. Created custom tools for installing products and managing databases.
- Tweeted as @jonbrouse to help develop the company’s web presence
Data Center Systems Administrator | Susquehanna International Group | April 2010 – October 2012
- Developed applications with php and Yii to sign out tools and track structured cable port usage
- Complied my group’s change processes and associated them with approved change windows
- Took part in change meetings with DC planning, operations, technical facilities, and networking teams
Network Operations Technician | Advanced Network Products | December 2006 - April 2010
- Implementation and administered Windows 2003 Domain and Active Directory
- Cisco Deployment and development of Kaseya deliverables
- Performed 24/7 on call support resolving LAN and WAN outages
Certifications
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) (expired)
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
Skills
Skills DevOps, Docker, Docker-Compose, VIM, Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Microservices/Service-Oriented Architecture, Linux Administration, Puppet, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, ELK, Ubuntu, CoreOS, REHL/CentOS, SUSE. GIT, Bash, Python, DNS, NIS management, SVN, LAMP. HTML, Wordpress, Eclipse. TCP/IP, OSI Model, Cisco IOS. Vendor Management, documentation and interpersonal relationships. Time management, excellent communication skills, flexibility, positive attitude, team player; independent thinker, procedure development. One on one and whiteboard education.
Education
Associates of Applied Science - ITT Technical Institute December 2006