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name: Stephen Brown II
meta:
  format: FRESH@1.0.0-beta
  version: 2021.4.10
info:
  label: Software Developer
  class: Developer
  brief: A Linux sysad turned developer, I excel at finding and applying best
    practices to everything I do professionally, even if it takes a couple tries
    to get it working, then get it right, and apply those lessons learned in the
    future. With experience in multiple languages and systems, I am adept at
    learning new methodologies and keeping the basics in mind.
disposition:
  travel: 25
  authorization: citizen
  commitment:
  - permanent
  - full-time
  remote: true
  relocation:
    willing: false
contact:
  email: Stephen.Brown@gmail.com
  phone: "(443) 219-4559"
  website: https://stephenbrown2.github.io/resume
  other: []
location:
  city: Longmont
  region: CO
  country: US
employment:
  history:
  - employer: ObjectRocket, a Rackspace Technology Company
    position: Software Developer
    url: https://objectrocket.com
    start: '2019-10-01'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - 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
    location: Remote
    keywords:
    - Remote
    - Python
    - Golang
    - Kubernetes
    - Docker
    - AWS
  - employer: Rackspace Technology
    position: Automation Engineer - Global Linux Automation Engineers
    url: https://rackspace.com
    start: '2018-09-11'
    end: '2019-10-01'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - 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. <ul><li>Frontend in Javascript,
      HTML, and CSS</li><li>Backend webserver in Python using Flask and MySQL</li>
      <li>Client library (Librack) to interact with numerous API backends</li></ul>
    - Implemented and configured deployment tools 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
    location: Remote
    keywords:
    - Remote
    - Python
    - Jenkins
    - Ansible
    - Docker
    - Github
  - employer: Rackspace Hosting
    position: Automation Engineer - Global SysAd Maintenance Team
    url: https://rackspace.com
    start: '2017-06-03'
    end: '2018-09-10'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - 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
    location: San Antonio, TX
    keywords:
    - Python
    - Linux
  - employer: Rackspace US, Inc.
    position: Linux System Administrator - Global SysAd Maintenance Team
    url: https://rackspace.com
    start: '2015-05-16'
    end: '2017-06-03'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - 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
    location: San Antonio, TX
    keywords:
    - Linux
    - Bash
    - Python
    - React
    - Flask
  - employer: Rackspace US, Inc.
    position: Linux System Administrator - Global Technical Support
    url: https://rackspace.com
    start: '2014-01-06'
    end: '2015-05-15'
    summary: Enterprise-support Linux System Administrator (2nd shift)
    highlights:
    - 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)
    location: San Antonio, TX
    keywords:
    - Linux
    - Bash
    - Python
  - employer: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School Of Public Health, Center
      For Communication Programs
    position: Linux System Administrator
    url: https://ccp.jhu.edu
    start: '2011-04-01'
    end: '2013-12-30'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - Maintained and automated maintenance of servers for Drupal websites and multisites
      involving:<ul><li>Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP infrastructure</li><li>Physical
      and virtual CentOS 5 and 6 servers</li><li>Apache Solr search indexes</li></ul>
    - Proposed and taught dev team about git and multiple environment workflow concepts.
    - Successfully 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
    location: Baltimore, MD
    keywords:
    - Linux
    - Git
    - Puppet
  - employer: MICROS Systems
    position: Software Test Specialist - Tier 3 Escalations
    url: https://micros.com
    start: '2011-01-01'
    end: '2011-04-01'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - Solved tough problems or delegated them to the right people
    location: Columbia, MD
    keywords:
    - Troubleshooting
    - Debugging
    - Testing
  - employer: Geek Squad
    position: Counter Operations Agent
    url: https://geeksquad.com
    start: '2010-10-01'
    end: '2010-12-31'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - As a seasonal job fresh out of college, checking customer's PCs for viruses
      was the best I could do at the time
    location: Baltimore, MD
    keywords:
    - Windows
    - Service
    - UpSales
  - employer: Solnet Network and Web Services
    position: Technical Support Specialist
    url: https://solnetweb.com
    start: '2010-04-01'
    end: '2010-10-01'
    summary: ''
    highlights:
    - Serviced Windows desktops, servers, and networking infrastructure as on-site
      technical support
    location: Baltimore, MD
    keywords:
    - Windows
    - Desktop
    - Support
projects:
- title: Emcee
  category: side-project
  description: An (unreleased) Python 3.6+ client for the internal Maintenance Calendar
  summary: Learned client design practices and version controlled releases
  role: Creator
  url: https://github.rackspace.com/emcee/emcee
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/emcee/emcee
  start: '2018-01-31'
  end: '2019-10-01'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
  - JSON
  - API
  - Types
- title: Stepladder
  category: internal
  description: A Flask-based web and API framework for internal tools
  summary: Learned remote collaboration and discussion skills while improving coding
    ability
  role: Contributor
  url: https://stepladder.rax.io/about
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/stepladder
  start: '2017-10-17'
  end: '2019-10-01'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
  - Javascript
  - HTML
  - JSON
  - API
- title: Hammertime
  category: internal
  description: CLI for interacting with Customer Servers
  summary: Added features and fixed bugs in the hammertime tool while maintaining
  role: Maintainer
  url: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/hammertime
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/overtime
  start: '2018-09-11'
  end: '2019-10-01'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
- title: Librack
  category: internal
  description: A fully featured Python library with objects covering many Rackspace
    systems, meant to be a one stop shop for other python projects
  summary: Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including interface
    guarantees and deprecation
  role: Maintainer
  url: https://stepladder.rax.io/librack_docs
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/librack
  start: '2018-01-02'
  end: '2019-10-01'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
- title: Automaint
  category: internal
  description: A Jinja2 and Flask application running an Angular based web UI to generate
    and quality-check maintenance templates for execution
  summary: Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including deprecation
  role: Contributor
  url: https://stepladder.rax.io/automaint
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/stepladder/stepladder/modules/automaint
  start: '2016-09-06'
  end: '2017-09-20'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
- title: Intensify
  category: internal
  description: CLI tool/Python module for managing Intensive usernames and passwords
  summary: Assisted in quality testing and bug reporting
  role: Bug reporter
  url: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/intensify/blob/master/README.md
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/intensify
  start: '2015-10-23'
  end: '2016-10-06'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
- title: Overtime/Hammertime
  category: internal
  description: CLI for interacting with Customer Servers
  summary: Added features and reported bugs to overtime, initially a fork integrating
    cloud support from another tool, hammercloud, now merged back into upstream hammertime
  role: Bug reporter
  url: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/hammertime
  repo: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/overtime
  start: '2015-03-08'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Python
- title: Knowledge for Health
  category: public
  description: ''
  summary: Jr System Administrator managing entire project's CentOS linux servers
    and Drupal websites
  role: System Administrator
  url: https://www.k4health.org
  start: '2011-04-01'
  end: '2013-12-30'
  highlights: []
  keywords:
  - Linux
  - Drupal
  - LAMP
skills:
  list:
    - name: Bash/Shell scripting
      level: Advanced
      summary: Sometimes, you just gotta write ssh in a for loop
      years: 15
    - name: Python
      level: Advanced
      summary: Primary development language while at Rackspace, have used some async capabilities
      years: 8
    - name: Golang
      level: Beginner
      summary: Very interested in learning concurrent programming in a statically-typed language
      years: 1
    - name: Docker
      level: Intermediate
      summary: Docker has proven very useful for enabling portable development and deployment workflows
      years: 3
    - name: Linux
      level: Advanced
      summary: Primary motivation for employment and excitement since high school
      years: 16
    - name: Git
      level: Intermediate
      summary: https://xkcd.com/1597/ - but I actually know many incantations
      years: 9
    - name: Kubernetes
      level: Beginner
      summary: I'm able to read helm charts, but putting them together is a whole other ballgame
      years: 2
    - name: AWS
      level: Beginner
      summary: My team is using AWS to host our services in EC2, and I have just begun to learn it
      years: 1
    - name: Ansible
      level: Intermediate
      summary: Used ansible for managing infrastructure configuration for servers and work laptop
      years: 3
    - name: Terraform
      level: Beginner
      summary: Using terraform for managing infrastructure for API services
      years: 1
service: {}
certificates:
- name: Triplebyte certified Generalist Software Engineer
  date: '2020-08-20'
  url: https://triplebyte.com/tb/stephen-brown-ii-xjpelfb/certificate/track/generalist
  issuer: Triplebyte
- name: 'Red Hat Certified Engineer (ID: 140-027-434)'
  date: '2014-03-12'
  url: https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=140-027-434
  issuer: Red hat
- name: 'Red Hat Certified System Administrator (ID: 140-027-434)'
  date: '2014-02-19'
  url: https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=140-027-434
  issuer: Red Hat
- name: 'LPIC-1 (LPI ID: LPI000223384, Verification Code: ltd26ep79p)'
  date: '2010-12-30'
  url: https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification
  issuer: Linux Professional Institute
- name: Linux+ (Powered by LPI)
  date: '2010-12-30'
  url: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=B8FPZJHDMH1QCCCL
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Server+
  date: '2010-12-30'
  url: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=VXPPY2FJMGB4SWHY
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Security+
  date: '2010-03-02'
  url: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=Q7D5J84BCL41KZ8G
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Network+
  date: '2010-02-08'
  url: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=R4LQNYQB2LRQKJV8
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: A+ (IT Technician)
  date: '2010-01-21'
  url: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=CM1SNZCB2KEEYD90
  issuer: CompTIA
education:
  summary: ''
  level: degree
  degree: BSc CIS
  history:
  - title: Computer Information Systems
    institution: LeTourneau University
    studyType: Bachelor
    area: Science
    start: '2005-08-01'
    end: '2009-12-15'
    grade: '2.4'
    curriculum: []
    url: https://letu.edu
    summary: ''
    keywords: []
    highlights: []
    location: Longview, TX
social:
- network: GitHub
  user: StephenBrown2
  url: https://github.com/StephenBrown2
- network: GitLab
  user: StephenBrown2
  url: https://gitlab.com/StephenBrown2
recognition: []
writing: []
reading: []
speaking: []
governance: []
languages:
- language: English
  level: Native
  years: 33
samples: []
references:
- name: Eva Aldana
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: eva.coche@rackspace.com
- name: Jesse Wiles
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: Jesse.Wiles@rackspace.com
- name: Freddy Esteban Perez
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: Freddy.Perez@rackspace.com
- name: Duncan H. Murray
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: duncan.h.murray@rackspace.co.uk
- name: Dan Hand
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: email@danielhand.io
- name: Sam Sharpe
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: sam.sharpe@rackspace.co.uk
- name: Ryan Mazurek
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: ryan.mazurek@rackspace.com
- name: Micah Culpepper
  role: Colleague
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: micah.culpepper@rackspace.com
testimonials: []
interests:
- name: Tesla
  summary: Electric cars are the future, and they're here
  keywords:
  - Electric
  - Sustainable
  - Energy
  - Storage
  - Transportation
- name: Solar Power
  summary: It powers the earth, why not your house?
- name: Personal Finance
  summary: Budgeting rocks! How else am I going to meet my goals?
- name: Home Automation
  summary: Why doesn't the fireplace turn on by itself when it's cold outside?
extracurricular: []
affiliation: {}