Allen Deon Saunders
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Oakland, CA, United States
Toptal member since August 6, 2024
Allen has over seven years of proven experience in technical solutions engineering, specializing in API development, machine learning, DevOps, and cloud technologies. He has successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions, including implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerization technologies to streamline development and deployment processes. Allen can contribute effectively to any development team to help drive business success.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Python 3, Go, Terraform, DevOps
The most amazing...
...solutions I've built were back-end APIs for Salesforce to deliver systems integrations at scale and help solve issues their platform had with large data sets.
Work Experience
VP of Technology
Humanity Pathways Global
- Acted as the operations and technology lead for a newly formed fiscal sponsor.
- Managed a small Agile software team to deliver a learning management system (LMS) at scale in the cloud.
- Architected a learning management system (LMS) and related CI/CD systems.
Enterprise Solutions Architect
CloudBees
- Acted as a pre-sales solutions architect specialist for CloudBees' DevOps SaaS and PaaS platform.
- Supported the global solutions team's infrastructure in GCP and AWS while managing over $40 million in ARR as an individual contributor.
- Produced documentation for our API library and SDK integrations.
- Managed and monitored Kubernetes production, operations, and verification (POV) infrastructure with Datadog on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to increase service level agreements by 10%.
Solutions Architect
OSF Digital
- Worked as an API engineer and pre/post-sales solutions architect for a premier Salesforce partner.
- Developed REST APIs deployed to AWS targets for the Salesforce SaaS Datorama with the distributed computing library Celery, achieving a 100x increase in requests handled and a 20x increase in speed.
- Created marketing dashboards using PySpark and SQL for Fortune 500 clients.
Lead Data Scientist
Tuuyi INC
- Built, tested, and deployed novel ML models with TensorFlow in a Linux-based on-premise environment to produce numerical models.
- Delivered effective dashboards to our engineering team.
- Performed exploratory data analysis, data wrangling, and feature engineering with proprietary datasets to improve classification by 2.11%.
- Deployed visualization tools for complex spatiotemporal datasets, improving the engineering team's efficiency.
Experience
Production API with Python's FastAPI
https://github.com/degrasse-python/ml-apiWine Quality Prediction Using Scikit-learn
https://github.com/degrasse-python/portfolio/tree/master/wine_qualityTerraform Multi-cloud Deployments Repo
https://github.com/degrasse-python/TFMultiCloudPySpark Service for Kubernetes
https://github.com/degrasse-python/spark-sql-srvThis project functions as a monolithic repository and is compatible with various CI/CD tools, providing a user-friendly introduction to implementing MLOps. It serves as a practical example for deploying a single ML model prediction system that undergoes training against a Spark SQL database.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Earth Science
San Francisco State University - San Francisco, USA
Associate Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
City College of San Francisco - San Francisco, USA
Associate Degree in Biomedical Engineering
City College of San Francisco - San Francisco, USA
Certifications
Certified Jenkins Engineer
CloudBees
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, PySpark, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Python API, Node.js
Tools
Jenkins, Terraform, AWS CLI, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Spark SQL, Ansible, Datorama
Languages
Python 3, Go, SQL
Paradigms
DevOps, Test Automation
Frameworks
Spark
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Docker
Storage
Datadog
Other
Cloud, Mathematics, Science, Machine Learning, SaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Data Science, Bioengineering, FastAPI, APIs, Computer Science
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