Sam Rowe

Staff engineer focused on infrastructure, developer tooling, and platform modernization. [email protected]

Technologies

Kubernetes, Docker/OCI, Python, Ruby, Gitlab, Atlassian stack, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible, various AWS(EKS, IAM, etc.)

Employment

Employ Inc.

Infrastructure - Staff Engineer
May 2024-Present

Scrum master duties for multiple teams. Designed and implemented VPN solution (Netbird) for multiple business units having conflicting IP ranges. Led projects for migrating legacy services to Kubernetes and AWS managed services. Participated in migration of 33 EKS clusters from v1.30.0 to 1.33.7. Created and maintained a toolkit for SSO authentication to AWS services on the command line used by Engineering and Infrastructure teams across all business units. Mentoring of junior team members.

Align Technology

Productivity Engineering - Software Engineer IV
June 2021-May 2024

Core team member maintaining and developing internal tooling as well as 3rd party software stacks. Design and implementation of security related tooling in Python. Mentoring of junior team members. Designed and implemented Sinatra-based application for application-details level monitoring of AWS spending. Led projects for decommissioning legacy tooling.

Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE June 1 2017)

Business Operations & Support Services - Software Engineer IV
Feb 2015-June 2021

Lead tools developer/Team Lead. Design, implementation and maintenance of Ruby-based web tools used by technical staff for troubleshooting and data analysis of customer issues. Design and maintenance of an application suite which decouples a monolithic legacy application into several more focused applications. Hired as a TSE and promoted after approximately 12 months.

Technologies: Docker, Elastic Search, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, SASS, Sidekiq, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Slim/PUG, and VueJS.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintenance, support and deployment of applications used by TSEs and management
• Mentoring junior developers within and without of my immediate team
• Cross-BU consulting for applications, automation and data design
• Work with customers and beta teams to refine features
• Troubleshoot issues with production applications
• Infrastructure design/maintenance and deployment including Debian virtual machines, load balancers and deployment strategy

Coraid Inc.

Technical Assistance Center - Tools Engineer

Aug 2013-Jan 2015 Aug 2011-Dec 2012

Technologies: Ruby, Sinatra, Bash scripting, Golem(wiki)

Projects

• Developed customer-facing multi-platform diagnostics-gathering script replacing ad-hoc lists of command output requested from customers
• Developed web-based analysis tool for analyzing collected diagnostics from differing platforms and devices
• Developed several internal automation tools for streamlining internal processes by interacting with disparate systems
• Organized, enhanced and maintained internal documentation

Tropo Inc. (formerly Voxeo-Labs Inc.)

Systems - Senior Systems Engineer

Dec 2012-Aug 2013

Member of four person team managing several diverse environments around the globe supporting cutting-edge IP-Telephony in our data centers, Amazon EC2 as well as on customer premises.

Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia ITS

System Support Services - Unix Systems Administrator

2000-2011

Senior member of four person administration team managing 500 systems (300 RHEL, 100 Solaris, 100 HP-UX) providing support to database administrators and functional staff through meetings, email and ticket-tracking systems.

Acquired an in-depth knowledge of Linux and Unix, storage area networks, configuration as code and trend analysis.

Articles and Projects

• Advancing in the Bash Shell
• Code contributor to Puppet and Factor