Director of Education and Training
2019 - PRESENTToyota Research Institute Advanced Development- Ran dozens of classes on agile development, leadership, and scrum. Ensured several hundred untrained Japanese developers were capable of developing software in a fast-paced scrum-style environment.
- Designed multiple educational programs for hundreds of Toyota staff. These included online English courses, self-paced programming classes, and soft skills courses in management and agile development.
- Served as product owner for TRI-AD "Dojo," an education startup within the Toyota group responsible for working with various external partners to deliver modern software development training to Japanese clients within and outside of the Toyota group.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cassandra, Redis, C, Java, Ruby, AWS, Git, PythonSenior Consultant
2018 - PRESENTInstaclustr- Developed Instaclustr's PaaS offerings for Cassandra and Spark.
- Helped Instaclustr clients successfully deploy and optimize Apache technologies such as Cassandra, Spark, and Kafka.
Technologies: Java, Spark, Apache Kafka, CassandraSenior DevOps Engineer
2015 - 2017CloudPassage- Served as a data architect which entailed optimizing the Cassandra data model and tuning multiple Cassandra clusters.
- Solved production outages and created monitoring systems as an SRE.
- Wrote the infrastructure code in Chef and Terraform to automate deployments, testing, and configuration changes.
- Hardened cloud systems through code auditing, penetration testing, patch management, and enforcing the encryption of data at rest and in transit.
- Created numerous tools and scripts to automate common forensic tasks such as tracking Chef server changes or updating user ACLs.
- Designed and implemented migration to a Docker-based Mesos-Marathon infrastructure with support for multiple clouds (AWS, Rackspace, SoftLayer).
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis, Rackspace, AWS, Python, Ruby, ChefSoftware Engineer
2010 - 2014Knewton- Wrote unit and integration tests for Java services.
- Helped develop a student event microservice in Java.
- Created a deployment tool in Python that leveraged AWS APIs (Boto library), Chef, and CloudFormation to simplify environment creation.
- Automated test environment creation in AWS and served as an SRE during my tenure as a systems engineer.
- Served as the deployment engineer for Java services and managed the Jenkins servers.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cassandra, AWS, Scala, Python, Java
Cloud Architect Developer in Tokyo, Japan
Member since February 13, 2018
Jonathan is a seasoned cloud architect and DevOps specialist based in Tokyo and New York who's worked for several startups building their infrastructures and improving security. He's exceptionally knowledgeable about machine learning, data analysis, and data layer optimization. One of his best qualities is his knack for quickly learning new things, which explains his passion for infrastructure as it is continuously evolving.
Jonathan is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Toyota Research Institute Advanced DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS), Cassandra, Redis, C, Java, Ruby, AWS, Git, Python
- InstaclustrJava, Spark, Apache Kafka, Cassandra
- CloudPassageAmazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Terraform, PostgreSQL...
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Java, IntelliJ, Python, Git, Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was to automate the software environment (creation/deletion) for a company which saved tens of thousands of dollars—simple but satisfying work.
Employment
Experience
- Melanippe
A Cassandra profiling tool that was written in Python. It is a work in progress. Currently, all it does is give information about table configuration and schema. It's easier to use than cqlsh or NodeTool and, when finished, will have more useful features.
- FaceMatch
Built an authentication system using selfies and ID photos from users. The system uses machine learning to identify faces in images and then make a statistical comparison to determine whether or not the ID photo is the same person as in the submitted selfie.
- Risk vs. Reward: A Guide to Understanding Software Containers (Publication)Software delivery has come a long way. And, somewhere between the transition from physical media to software containers, we have changed the way we try to manage them. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Jonathan Bethune explores how software containers have motivated us to treat servers as more dispensable, and the risks and rewards involved.
Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, PHP, Java, Ruby, R, Scala, Python 3, Go, Clojure, Rust, C, HaskellFrameworks
Spark, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Hadoop, Flask, DjangoLibraries/APIs
AWS EC2 APITools
Ansible, Nginx, Apache ZooKeeper, Chef, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, IntelliJ, Apache TomcatParadigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Scrum, Agile, Agile Project Management, Agile Product ManagementPlatforms
Kubernetes, Azure, Apache Kafka, AWS EC2, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), RackspaceIndustry Expertise
SecurityStorage
Google Cloud, Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ElasticsearchOther
Cloud Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, AWS, CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring, FedRAMP, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Education
- Master's Degree in Information Technology2011 - 2014University of Phoenix - Online
- Bachelor of Science Degree in English Education2003 - 2006New York University - New York, NY, USA
Certifications
- Certified Scrum MasterAUGUST 2021 - AUGUST 2022Scrum Inc.
- Japanese Language Proficiency Adult Fluency LevelFEBRUARY 2017 - PRESENTThe Japan Foundation
- Machine LearningOCTOBER 2016 - PRESENTStanford University via Coursera
- Cassandra ArchitectJUNE 2016 - PRESENTDatastax
