Mike Shade

Forum One

April 2011 - Present

https://forumone.com

A full-service web design and technology consulting firm

• Design highly available, scalable infrastructure for PHP / Python / Django / Node / Docker-based applications on AWS
• Decrease time required to manage, deploy, and maintain infrastructure with CloudFormation, SaltStack, and Puppet
• Develop and support workflow with Docker and Vagrant for continuous delivery pipeline via Jenkins
• Participate in agile Scrum development methodology
• Advise clients on infrastructure management, planning, and scaling
• Provide solution guidance to business development team
• Client-facing support, consulting, and incident response
• Manage internal IT staff, provide career development mentorship, and technical guidance

Forum One

April 2007 - April 2011

• Supported cloud and dedicated infrastructure for hosting of Drupal / Wordpress / PHP sites
• Participated in on-call rotation
• Managed dedicated and cloud servers
• Vendor management
• Managed internal IT operations

Omniplex World Services Corporation

March 2006 - April 2007

http://www.omniplex.com/

Provider of investigative services to public and private sector agencies nationwide

• Supported secure operations of country-wide fleet of IT systems
• Help Desk support
• IT lifecycle support and management

Peace Corps

2016 - Present

https://www.peacecorps.gov/

Django / Wagtail CMS application hosting

• Design and implementation of auto-scaling and highly available infrastructure to host high profile Python application
• Support ongoing operations
• Ensure FISMA compliance of hosting environment
• Support continuous integration and deployment pipeline

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps

2008 - Present

http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Multi-technology application presenting impactful and highly publicized public health data

• Multiple iterations of infrastructure, from single and multi-instance, to auto-scaling AWS platform to handle yearly spikes
• MapBox / TileMill stack for map production
• AngularJS single page application
• PHP (Laravel) API backend
• Drupal frontend
• Multiple layers of caching for each app component, including edge CDN, Memcached, and Database layers
• Support continuous integration and deployment

EPA

2014 - Present

https://www.epa.gov/

Provide expert guidance on infrastructure development and ongoing improvements to support large-scale Drupal application

• MySQL database replication support, optimization, tuning
• Caching strategies with CDN to improve application performance
• Incident log and metric analysis to determine causes of and remedies to performance issues

Center for Strategic and International Studies

2010 - Present

https://www.csis.org/

Drupal Application hosting for client with large volumes of high profile content and media

• Design and implementation of auto-scaling and highly available infrastructure to host Drupal application.
• Support growing patterns of international traffic
• Tiered caching strategy comprised of edge CDN, Memcached, and Database layers
• Support continuous integration and deployment