Dayne Lucas: Github Projects
Dayne Lucas: Github Projects
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Innovative, solutions driven, Information Technology Professional with more than 14 years experience
providing business critical applications, infrastructure, network, security and disaster recovery
management in a multitude of diverse on site and cloud environments. Skilled at working with all levels of
staff and management personnel to effectively translate complex business requirements into technical
architecture and system design.
Involved in designing, implementation and ongoing configuration management of several production
systems utilizing both cloud and on-site virtualized infrastructure.
EXPERIENCE
● Green field project designing and building a data platform for IoT devices within GCP.
● Setup and maintained project build pipelines using Gitlab-CI.
● Built serverless IoT data aggregation functions in Golang utilising Pub/Sub, GCS and Cloud SQL.
● Developed Terraform modules to automate infrastructure deployments.
● Built pipeline for the deployment and management of Vault secrets management supporting
GCP, PKI, Database and Secret backends.
● Automated TLS certificate management for microservices and management tools.
● Created and managed helm charts for microservice deployments within Kubernetes.
● Built an automated mTLS certificate management service using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub,
StackDriver Events and Cert-Manager for Kubernetes.
● Supported junior team members with technical issues.
● Worked with customers internal support, dev and build teams to determine how best to leverage
tools and techniques involving infrastructure as code, configuration management and other
DevOps-type techniques to improve delivery quality, speed and experience.
● Built automated image factories, providing customers with customised cloud images for various
workloads utilising Jenkins, Packer, Ansible and Chef.
● Supported the infrastructure automation, configuration management and development of the
CI/CD pipelines for several green field projects utilising cloud services such as serverless
compute, autoscaling, message queues and elasticsearch.
● Developed Terraform modules of core cloud resources, to facilitate reusable IaC for customer
projects.
● Reduced application deployment times for customer from 45 mins to 10 mins by providing an
automated CI/CD pipeline, AMI factory and Chef server deployment in Cloudformation.
● Supported Professional Service engagements with engineering and technical consultative
assistance to help customers design systems that are purpose-built and well suited to their target
cloud infrastructure.
● Helped customer dev team troubleshoot application stability issues with RabbitMQ. Identified a
connection management issue and provided workaround until code could be refactored.
● Designed a serverless AWS VPC Flow Log Analyser Terraform module utilising Lambda, Kinesis
Firehose and Athena.
● Primary engineer supporting the migration and transformation of a large scale business
intelligence platform to AWS. Working with developers to help transform some services to utilise
cloud services such as SQS. Automate the infrastructure builds and configuration management.
● Presented workshops at customer sites to gather information, about workloads that needed cloud
migration, or demonstrate proof of concept designs and automation.
● Designed, implemented and administered hosting infrastructure and services for multiple mobile
gaming applications using Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, SQS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch,
and SNS).
● Automated configuration of infrastructure and services using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and
Bash/Python scripting.
● Implemented Teamcity build and continuous integration service to update UAT environments with
tagged builds.
● Worked closely with development teams to ensure effective use of cloud services.
● Implemented blue/green deployment solution to reduce downtime during releases and facilitate
faster rollbacks if required.
● Developed custom monitoring agents which integrated with New Relic to help monitor custom
services.
● Performed load testing and performance baselines. Identified several application and
infrastructure bottlenecks and implemented infrastructure improvements.
● Reduced application latency and improved service up time by pushing cloud service adoption
such as CloudFront and S3 over traditional service hosting solutions.
● Built custom AMIs using Packer with custom configurations and tunings for specific backend
services.
● Scripted game archival backups to S3 and Glacier.
● Helped QA by reducing testing time with automated environment builds using Terraform and
Ansible playbooks.
Server Team Lead - London
Trainline (Nov 2013 - Jun 2014)
● Managed a team of server and storage engineers in the UK’s leading online provider of rail tickets
and journey planning.
● Served as an escalation point for more complex technical issues including out of office hours
support.
● Proactively managed the complex production, development and office infrastructure across
multiple locations ensuring optimum uptime and service continuity.
● Contributed to Change and Incident processes as appropriate.
● Managed 3rd party suppliers in the resolution of technical issues within the corporate server
environment.
Co-Founder - Essex
Shaka Technologies (Aug 2012 - Nov 2013)
● Co-founded Shaka Technologies Ltd. and co-invented the company’s core intellectual property
and product set.
● Linux Kernel patching and compilation.
● Linux package development and testing.
● Linux OS integration, hardening and system development.
● Developed Packer scripts and integrated them with Jenkins to automate software releases for
use with VMWare vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper V, AWS AMI and Windows Azure.
● Designed, configured and manage production AWS VPC environment for our production services
which include services running Nginx, Apache, MySQL and GlassFish AS.
● Designed, implemented and managed secure and redundant system infrastructure for hosted
online mobile web applications.
● Developed and configured self-service development cloud infrastructure for automated
application server creation for dev environments.
● Implemented application firewall inspection for all production applications (Prevent XSS, SQL
Injection, Session Hijacking) using Apache Mod_Security and Mod_Evasion.
● Researched and implemented redundant application delivery and security system for hosted
online sportsbook application using Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager.
● Implemented virtualisation server consolidation using VMWare VSphere in a clustered
environment using Dell MD3200 DAS SAN and Dell PE R815’s.
● Replaced ageing Cisco PIX firewalls with SonicWall NSA 4500 HA firewalls for all sites.
● JAVA J2EE Application Server Administration (JBOSS and Tomcat) and application deployment.
● Installation and maintenance of software services such as JIRA, SVN, Nexus and NeoLoad.
SKILL SET
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