Brandon Helwig

Broomfield, Colorado • [email protected]

Technical Expertise

Languages: Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Hadoop, HBase, Redis, Riak
Web Frameworks: Django, Flask, Tornado, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Wordpress
Deployment/Config: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Fabric
Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu, CoreOS, macOS, Oracle Linux
Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Heroku, Linode, Oracle Cloud, Rackspace
Tools: Docker, ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Git, Graphana/Graphite, Hashicorp Vault, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Gitlab

Platform Architect, November 2019 - Present. Nami ML

Develop and maintain backend systems, API services, data pipelines, machine learning services, and databases
Design and architect systems that can scale to very high traffic levels
Provide operational support on all production backend systems

Infra. Architect & Manager, SaaS Engineering, January 2014 - October 2019. Oracle

Built multiple internal tools using Python for ETL Tasks, service validation, and integrating with Cloud APIs.
Designed solution for scale-out expansion of API service across multiple datacenters.
Designed and implemented CI/CD solution to automate deployment across multiple legacy and cloud native environments.
Security hardened services with architecture changes, web application firewalls, and active DDoS mitigation.
Planned and executed projects to migrate production service to new datacenters.
Built a new Site Reliability Engineering team across time zones to support the growth of the business.
Negotiated with and managed relationships with enterprise hardware and software suppliers.
Maintained and documented inbound open source software licensing compliance.
Received Oracle SaaS Engineering Excellence Award in 2019.

DevOps Engineer, August 2009 - January 2014. Push IO (Acquired by Oracle)

Built High Availability API Gateway abstraction to scale out application across multiple environments.
Built and Deployed REST API service scaling to millions of devices with extreme burst traffic.
Converted existing ruby and shell scripts to a puppet-based configuration.
Created tools to manage cloud servers across four data centers.
Designed architecture to support multi datacenter redundancy.
Worked with legal teams to support the M&A due diligence process.
Managed service delivery infrastructure and internal IT support.
Built a continuous deployment system using a Jenkins based workflow.
Supported multiple SQL and NoSQL production databases.

Founder, December 2008 - March 2014. Xenscale

Provided High Touch WordPress Hosting for 10+ million impressions per month websites.
Wordpress, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Python (Django/Flask) Backend Web Development.
Cloud automation and Linux server administration.

Overnight NOC Operations, August 2005 - December 2008. Golden West Technologies

Provided NOC alert monitoring of data centers and outside plant facilities.
Coordinated with outside plant, central office, and network partners during service incidents.
Supported commercial and residential customers with phone, TV, and Internet (Dial-up, Cable, DSL, Fiber) services.

Founder, May 2003 - July 2005. Helwig Technologies