Mike Shade

The Motley Fool

June 2018 - Present

https://fool.com

Helping make the world smarter, happier, and richer

• Platform Engineering for a team of 50+ developers supporting dozens of deployments per day to a site with millions of daily page views
• Consult with development teams to design cloud/container architecture for fault tolerance, scalability, and efficiency
• Design and implement Kubernetes-based microservice hosting platform, on-premise with Rancher and in AWS EKS
• Develop a library of common Helm charts for services deployed to Kubernetes
• Implement Kubernetes-based ephemeral environments for full-stack build/deploy testing
• Improve monitoring and logging observability via integrations with AWS, Datadog, Kubernetes, Splunk, and internal tooling
• Direct entire lifecycle of multiple production Kubernetes clusters and supporting services
• Design efficient, intuitive CICD processes for build/deploy and Infrastructure as Code with Jenkins (Groovy), Github Actions, GitlabCI and Terraform
• Build Python-based platform management tools to solve application and infrastructure problems
• Evangelize configuration and infrastructure as code for containerized and cloud-based workloads
• Containerize legacy applications
• Create automated tooling for fast startup of new projects
• Design and maintain our customer facing web infrastructure from edge to origin to reliably provide content to millions of members all over the world

Forum One

April 2011 - June 2018

https://forumone.com

A full-service web design and technology consulting firm

• Designed highly available, scalable infrastructure for PHP / Python / Django / Node / Docker-based applications on AWS
• Decreased time required to manage, deploy, and maintain infrastructure with CloudFormation, SaltStack, and Puppet
• Developed and support workflow with Docker and Vagrant for continuous delivery pipeline via Jenkins
• Participated in agile Scrum development methodology
• Provided consulting to clients to effectively manage infrastructure, scaling, and site availability
• Guided business development team in proposals for effective, resilient, cost-conscious hosting solutions
• Client-facing support, consulting, and incident response
• Directed internal IT staff, provided career development mentorship, and technical guidance

Forum One

April 2007 - April 2011

• Designed and supported cloud and dedicated infrastructure for hosting of Drupal / Wordpress / PHP sites
• Incident response and remediation as part of on-call rotation
• Managed dedicated and cloud servers
• Vendor and service procurement oversight
• Directed 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 - 2018

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 - 2018

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
• 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 - 2018

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 - 2018

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