Steve Nolen

RStudio, PBC 2016-07-01 —

Highlights

• Alongside a team, build scale and operate a group of hosted web services with thousands of active users.
• Automate the creation and maintenance of multiple highly-available ceph clusters used for persistent storage.
• Automate the creation and management of ephemeral kubernetes clusters spanning hundreds of nodes.
• Lead and participate in project teams ensuring the on-time and effective delivery of service features and reliability.

UCLA/Mobilize 2012-01-01 — 2016-12-01

Highlights

• Build, automate, and maintain a scalable and reliable infrastructure for the 25+ projects and services required for effective implementation of the grant.
• Enable continuous integration and continuous deployment toolsets to faciliate rapid iterations of an end-to-end software stack.
• Plan, coordinate and aid in the migration of the open-source research toolset to the Los Angeles Unified School District for continued use after the conclusion of the grant.
• Propose, purchase and maintain a small cluster of physical hosts to facilitate an affordable and scalable virtual machine architecture.
• Systematically and effectively resolve the remaining technical aspects of multiple multi-million dollar grants at their close.

UCLA/Office of Information Technology 2015-01-01 — 2016-04-01

Highlights

• Create and maintain a complex continuous integration flow, automating both the Android and iOS builds and distributions of a phonegap application that supports multiple user interfaces.
• Build, test and troubleshoot infrastructure-as-code for a variety of internally-built open-source web applications running on ruby-on-rails and php stacks.
• Enact policies to secure sensitive information (system passwords, SSL certificates and API keys) in encrypted but decentralized data store.
• Migrate production-level services to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide future scalability and reliability.

Self-employed/Technical Consultant 2005-09-01 —

Highlights

• Maintain and secure Linux instances in various cloud environments.
• Provide effective uptime, monitoring and stability for core services.
• Implement and maintain various open-source applications needed to effectively manage a small business: central log servers supporting both Linux and Windows hosts, video monitoring server.

Penn State/ITS 2010-08-01 — 2011-12-01

Highlights

• Participated on a team of full-time staff and graduate students that provided 24/7 phone, email and walk-in technical support to university community.
• Provided support for more than 200 services including university-based applications and education learning tools.
• Contributed to and edited a public technical knowledge base for service support and troubleshooting.

ECRL 2007-05-01 — 2011-12-01

Highlights

• Maintained and debugged Windows and Windows Server applications commonly used at small businesses.
• Provisioned and diagnosed issues pertaining to client workstations and servers.

Aramark/Rider University 2006-09-01 — 2007-09-01

The Pennsylvania State University 2010-09-01 — 2011-12-01

Rider University 2006-09-01 — 2010-08-01

Westminster Choir College 2007-09-01 — 2010-08-01

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• Red Hat 6 Certified Engineer
• Red Hat 6 Certified Systems Adminstrator
• Information Systems Security Postbaccalaureate Certificate

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Debian/Ubuntu Linux
• FreeBSD
• Mac OS X

• Python
• Ruby
• Go
• CloudFormation
• Shell/Bash
• Javascript
• SQL
• XML
• Java

• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Serverless
• Cloud Native
• Docker