Jon Wedaman

jon.wedaman{at}gmail{dot}com

513.549.6424

Experience

Cisco Meraki - Remote  (May 2022 - Present)

Development Engineer L9

Perch - Boston, MA  (December 2021 - Present)

Senior Devops Engineer

Worked on a two-person team to support an ecommerce platform using AWS, Terraform, Gitlab, Gitlab CI, Python, Django, Postgres. Focused on improving reliability and performance of CI/CD pipelines. Other tasks included investigating database and application performance, troubleshooting CI pipelines with developers, and planning AWS capacity. Responded to on-call events as needed.

Kyruus - Boston, MA  (November 2019 - December 2021)

Senior Devops Engineer

Worked on a small team to support developers and legacy applications through a merger using AWS, SaltStack, Docker, Jenkins, Python, Flask, Node.js, Packer, Terraform, Atlantis, Sentry, ElasticSearch, DataDog, Groovy, CircleCI, Concourse CI, and a little Amazon EKS. Drove, coordinated, and deployed a major CI migration across all engineering teams over the course of a year which improved security, increased reliability, reduced cost, added autoscaling capacity, and enabled teams to self-serve. Worked closely with seven teams to maintain, migrate, and replace critical applications and systems. Assisted management with planning, budgeting, automation, monitoring, SOC2 audits, and evidence gathering, Mentored two junior engineers into promotions. Responded to on-call events as needed. Instituted new processes, automated reviews, and regular preventative measures to prevent future outages.

Shoobx - Boston, MA  (February 2015 - November 2019)

Platform Developer

Worked with a small team to build auto-scaling web infrastructure with AWS, Ansible, SaltStack, Docker, Jenkins, Postgres, Python, Packer, Terraform, Consul, Hashicorp Vault, Sensu, Sentry, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Nginx. Built Jenkins testing infrastructure that scales over 300 nodes. Runs 24 hours of testing in 20 mins. Managed AWS costs to stay within $10k/month budget. Setup log monitoring with ElasticSearch, metrics monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, exception monitoring with sentry, and check monitoring with Sensu. Built configuration management for all our services in Ansible/SaltStack. Assisted with ISO-27001 security audits. Researched and Deployed new dev tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, AWS/IAM/LDAP integration. Responded to on-call events as needed.

Rue La La - Boston, MA  (April 2014 - February 2015)

Platform Developer

Optimized, refactored, and built new full-stack features for large Django App which involved Python, Nginx, Lua, MySQL, and legacy Java. Built a new continuous deployment system with Jenkins, Ansible. Created and fostered adoption for new dev environments utilizing Vagrant, Ansible, CentOS/RHEL 7. Worked with developers to improve development environment/experience. Mentored junior devs directly and through code reviews. Responded to on-call events as needed.

Education

University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH.

College of Engineering

Bachelors in Computer Science. 2011.