Jamie Roberts
Verified Expert in Engineering
Security Developer
Jamie is a software developer with a knack for creating award-winning products, building agile teams, and creating environments where people love to work. He specializes in startups, scalable architecture, fault-tolerant design, open-source, security, and agile development.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Kubernetes
The most amazing...
...team I've been a part of has succeeded in producing things such as Napster, Plaxo, Ooma, and Citizen.
Work Experience
Lead DevOps and DevSecOps Engineer
JKR - Startup Company
- Helped refactor code for a startup: pipelines that used to take 30 minutes now take 30 seconds.
- Realized cost savings being elastic as part of my role.
- Ingested trillions of events; improved throughput by orders of magnitude.
- Automated all the things, built solid pipelines, and provided GitOps.
DevOps Platform Engineer
JKR - Chick-Fil-A Corporation
- Developed robotics and automation along with machine learning-based IoT devices and cloud services.
- Built a hybrid edge and cloud custom IoT solution from scratch with lower operational expenditure (when compared to Amazon IoT) and a more comprehensive feature set.
- Created Go, Python, C, C++, and JavaScript SDKs for our vendors.
- Used secure coding practices while implementing cutting-edge IETF drafts.
DevOps, API and Back-end Engineer
JKR - React Games
- Profiled and rearchitected system components to prepare for international release.
- Migrated from hosted servers to Docker Swarm and, ultimately, to Kubernetes.
- Leveraged Amazon cloud primarily but developed in a cloud-agnostic way.
- Made significant optimizations in C# cloud anti-cheating solution that yielded performance increases of 10-100X.
Lead Software Architect
TCN
- Created an award-winning cloud dialer. It was among the first VoIP service providers to complete one billion phone calls.
- Hired the in-house junior development team and developed them into solid talent.
- Defended patent suits (we were not infringing) and collaborated with many innovations that allowed us to continue to be a low-cost provider with a premium feature set, working on ISO 27001 and SOC2 compliance.
Skills
Languages
C, Bash, Lua, SQL, Go, Python, C++11, Java, C++, C#, Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby
Tools
ELK (Elastic Stack), Terraform, MQTT, Elastic, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Slack, Git, Amazon ElastiCache, Ansible, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Spring Tool Suite (STS), GitLab, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon EKS
Platforms
Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Docker, OS X, Jakarta EE, Linux
Storage
Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, MariaDB, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB
Other
VoIP, SIP, H.323, RTP, Security, Software Development, Search, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Relational Database Services (RDS), Amazon Kinesis, Cloud, Azure Data Lake, Google, Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth, Identity, Discovery, Consul, Service Meshes, Solution Architecture, Software Architecture, DHTML, Ajax, PCI, Web Security
Frameworks
Laravel, Unity, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Agile
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Linux Foundation
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