Kris Reeck

Experience

Systems Reliability Engineer

Monitoring, alerting, tracing, benchmarking, and loadtesting as first-class citizens.
SumoLogic, DataDog, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Apache JMeter

Crafting Service Level-Indicators to meet Service-Level Objectives & Agreements with stakeholders.

Triaging events and tickets, drafting Root-Cause Analyses, and communicating with a broad range of stakeholders.

Designing detailed illustrations of app layer & ETL flows to visualize infrastructure landscape.

DevOps Specialist

Professional craftsmanship of Continuous Integration & Deployment pipelines for software.
Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, Gitlab

Security-focused initiatives to identify and remediate system and application vulnerabilities proactively and reactively
CVSS, OWASP, DAST, RAST, WAFs

Competent liaison for developers to discuss software development best practices, performing application design and implementation, building service meshes.
Containerization & virtualization, git flow, NoSQL & relational databases

Advocate for B- & C-suite partners to provide actionable reporting and fiscal responsibility.

Systems Administrator

A decade of experience deploying, managing, and securing remote server environments.
Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Docker

Infrastructure Architect

Proven experience designing intelligent systems focused on efficiency and scalability.

Software Engineering

Professional experience developing applications using procedural and object oriented techniques with a focus on modern OO and TDD practices; Designed and crafted custom eCommerce applications, internal- and external-facing APIs, administration portals, and user-facing web applications.
Laravel 3/4/5, Symfony, CodeIgniter 2/3, Phalcon, NodeJS, Kohana, OpenCart, Magento, Zen Cart, Django, TYPO3

Custom tooling for bespoke administrative, reporting, and functional tasks in a variety of languages Python 2/3, GoLang, Groovy

Database Administration

Management, design, and interaction with database systems, ensuring integrity and quality of information transactions.
MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Sybase, Stored Procedures, Triggers

UI/UX Implementation

Extensive knowledge of current specifications and their implementation in the current web space with regards to browser compatibility; Use of CSS preprocessors to create meaningful, encapsulated, and reusable CSS.
LocalStorage, LESS, SCSS, Bootstrap, Foundation, jQuery UI, Pure, Iconography

Excellent grasp of JavaScript and popular libraries and their implementation to enhance end-user experience.
jQuery, YUI, AngularJS, TypeScript

Web Specialist

A core understanding of the inner-workings of a served web page and how to interact and manipulate with it accordingly.
Blade, Twig, Smarty, XSLT, SEO

Integrations

Fundamental experience developing and interacting with various external applications and gateways to collect and send data in various formats.
PayPal, Intuit, Twitter, OAuth 2, FedEx, UPS, SendWithUs, Authorize.net, Stripe, SOAP, REST

Networking

General working knowledge of network interfaces, firewalls, and routing
UDP/TCP, Wireshark, DNS & domain record management, local network configuration

Work History