diff --git a/content/pages/russell.ballestrini.resume.rst b/content/pages/russell.ballestrini.resume.rst index 76d4676..8546b4e 100644 --- a/content/pages/russell.ballestrini.resume.rst +++ b/content/pages/russell.ballestrini.resume.rst @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Russell Ballestrini .. class:: center -**Product & Services Engineer | 860-333-3047 | russell@ballestrini.net** +**Product & Services Engineer | 860-333-3047 | russell@unturf.com** .. class:: center -`LinkedIn `_ | `GitLab `_ | `Personal Website `_ +`LinkedIn `_ | `Self-hosted GitLab `_ | `Personal Website `_ | `Portfolio `_ Professional Summary -------------------- @@ -17,69 +17,68 @@ Innovative and results-driven Full Stack Engineer with over 15 years of experien Core Competencies ----------------- -Full Stack Development, Phyical & Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps & CI/CD, System Arch, FOSS Development, Team Leadership, Scaling, Security, and Cost Optimizations +Full Stack Software Development, Physical & Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps & CI/CD, System Arch, FOSS Development, Team Leadership, Scaling, Security, and Cost Optimizations Professional Experience ----------------------- -Founder & Author -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +**Founder & Author** +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ **Make Post Sell & uncloseai.com** - Remote | 01/2019 - Present Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital & physical product sales. -Key Achievements: Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution. Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners. Hot wallet payments for Dogecoin and Monero crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals. Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning to cover inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages. +Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution. Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners. Hot wallet payments for Monero, Dogecoin, Litecoin, & Bitcoin crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals. Authored "uncloseai. Machine Learning Reference Guide to Inference Clients" using machine learning to cover inference client implementations & streaming techniques across 42 programming languages. -Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy +Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy, Gitlab Runners -Full Stack Engineer -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +**Full Stack Engineer** +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ **Coursemojo** - Remote | 10/2022 - 10/2025 Led the development & scaling of an AI assistant teacher for public schools, focusing on infrastructure management & application scaling. -Key Achievements: -Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for two monolithic services using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions. Introduced Datadog with Fargate sidecar agents for APM, logging, & custom metrics. Scaled AI-powered educational tools using commodity language models (openai & anthropic). Implemented student monitoring tools to enhance the teacher's birds eye view of the classroom! Websocket enhancements like class pause, fastforward, & single-student restarts! +Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for two monolithic services using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions. Introduced Datadog with Fargate sidecar agents for APM, logging, & custom metrics. Scaled AI-powered educational tools using commodity language models (openai & anthropic). Implemented student monitoring tools to enhance the teacher's birds eye view of the classroom. Websocket enhancements like class pause, fastforward, & single-student restarts. Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation, ECR, ECS, ALB), GitHub Actions, Docker, Nginx, uWSGI, Python, Datadog -Senior Security Engineer -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +**Senior Security Engineer** +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ **Cofense** - Remote | 07/2020 - 03/2022 -Spearheaded security automation and compliance initiatives for SOC2 and FedRAMP environments. - -Key Responsibilities: Implemented Terraform-based AWS account controls and user access management. Collaborated with scrum teams to ensure high-security integrity in product delivery. Utilized tools such as Gitlab Enterprise, Okta, DefectDojo, and CloudMapper. +Spearheaded security automation and compliance initiatives for SOC2 and FedRAMP environments. Managed AWS account controls & user access management for cloud. Ensured security integrity in product delivery. Developed & Utilized tools such as Gitlab, Okta, DefectDojo, and CloudMapper, ECR vulnerability scans. -Lead Software Engineer -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +**Lead Site Reliability Engineer** +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ **Remind** - Remote | 06/2017 - 07/2020 Managed AWS infrastructure and led cloud cost optimization, security enhancements, and developer productivity improvements. -Key Achievements: -Ensured critical services scaled during COVID-19 lockdowns, supporting distance learning initiatives. Introduced Datadog with EC2 agents for container APM, logs, & custom metrics. Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Python and Stacker. Contributed to SlashDeploy, a Ruby-based tool enabling GitHub deployments via Slack commands, pioneering deployment automation before modern CI/CD platforms. Authored technical blog posts. +Ensured critical services scaled during COVID-19 lockdowns, supporting distance learning initiatives. Introduced Datadog with EC2 agents for container APM, logs, & custom metrics. Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Python and Stacker. Contributed to SlashDeploy, a tool for GitHub deployments via Slack commands, pioneering deployment automation before modern CI/CD platforms. Authored technical blog posts. Technologies: AWS (ECS, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB), GNU/Linux, Python, Ruby, CloudFormation, Datadog Earlier Career Highlights ------------------------- -- **Senior System Engineer** at Mobiquity (06/2016 - 06/2017) -- **DevOps Engineer** at Mandiant (07/2014 - 05/2016) -- **Founder** at Remarkbox | 02/2016 - Present -- **System Engineer** at Cars.com (10/2012 - 06/2014) -- **Founder** of LinkPeek (01/2012 - 01/2022) -- **Unix System Administrator** at CSC (08/2006 - 10/2012) +- **Senior System Engineer** at Mobiquity - Remote (06/2016 - 06/2017) +- **DevOps Engineer** at Mandiant - Remote (07/2014 - 05/2016) +- **Founder** at Remarkbox - Remote | 02/2016 - Present +- **System Engineer** at Cars.com - Remote (10/2012 - 06/2014) +- **Founder** of LinkPeek - Remote (01/2012 - 01/2022) +- **Unix System Administrator** at CSC - On site across 3 data centers Education --------- **Associate of Science in Computer Science** -Three Rivers Community College | 2003 - 2006 +Three Rivers Community College + +**Bachelor of Science in Computer Science** +Eastern Connecticut State University - 93 credits towards degree Technical Skills @@ -90,13 +89,4 @@ Technical Skills - **Cloud**: AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean - **DevOps**: Gitlab, SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Firecracker, LXD/LXC, KVM, libvirt, gitlab-ci runners - **Databases**: Sqlite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB -- **Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, SSE, Websockets, OpenAPI, - -Additional Information ----------------------- - -- Make Post Sell: https://www.makepostsell.com -- Remarkbox: https://www.remarkbox.com -- uncloseai.com 42 inference clients & book: https://uncloseai.com -- YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini/featured -- All Russell's self-hosted gitlab repos: https://git.unturf.com/engineering/ +- **Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, SSE, Websockets, OpenAPI