Owen Mather
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Architect and Software Developer
Andorra-Sierra de Arcos, Spain
Toptal member since January 3, 2022
Owen is an experienced software, DevOps, and cloud engineer with over seven years in the industry. He is a T-shaped engineer specializing in microservice development with Python. Multi-cloud certified in AWS and Azure and a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Owen is eager to work on projects of any size and stage in the product development cycle.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 6 years
- Python - 6 years
- Architecture - 6 years
- Azure - 4 years
- Grafana - 4 years
- React - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Vim Text Editor, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CloudFormation, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a fully-automated physical chessboard.
Work Experience
Tech Lead
Freelance Client
- Performed cloudification of Oracle databases for enterprise services.
- Standardized shared workflows, processes, and release management for internal teams moving to AWS.
- Handled sprint planning, backlog grooming, and more using SAFe on Azure DevOps.
Senior Systems Engineer
Freelance Client
- Designed tools/processes to enable DevOps teams to embrace cloud adoption in a secure and reliable manner.
- Developed a microservices application deployed on AWS.
- Deployed and secured several Azure applications using Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Cognitive Services.
Cloud Architect
Digital Agency
- Developed a multi-cloud automated monitoring and alerting solution with Grafana, Prometheus, Consul, Ansible, the Azure and AWS CLI, and Docker. Contributed to automatic dashboard generation and deployment, alert threshold sizing, and visual/UI change monitoring.
- Performed a cloud architecture role for multiple clients and contracted proposals across several industries such as government, education, and agriculture.
- Contributed to DevOps and SRE activities such as cost management, PIM, IaC, AD admin, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR), incident management, etc.
DevOps Engineer
Dell EMC XtremIO
- Worked on middleware for the software development team. Collaborated with messaging, marshaling, rest, code and documentation generation, and service integrations using RabbitMQ, JAXB, JNI, Restlet, Apache Velocity, and Swagger.
- Handled significant upgrades and migrations for the enterprise's software with over a million lines of code. Used Java, AngularJS, Wildfly, Spring Framework, Security, Flex, and HTML5.
- Performed application build and release for an enterprise storage management tool, overseeing CI/CD, code and release versioning, hotfix, respin, branch management and installer creation using InstallAnywhere, Apache Maven, and Apache Ant.
- Designed, managed, and optimized a multimodule build script that saw a reduction in build times of over 50%.
Experience
Python Text Analysis and Web Scraping
It performs sentiment analysis and summarization of the comments from each article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Example Lambda and Glue ETL Pipelines and Deployment
https://github.com/owenmather/parquet_aws_etlUsed Jupyter Notebooks and Pandas on demoing data inspection and transformation AWS Glue with Spark and triggered the workflow.
The parquet input file was transformed and saved to the AWS S3 location.
Terraform Varsify
https://github.com/owenmather/terraform-varsifyExtracts hardcoded values from Terraform and created variables and optionally tfvars for hardcoded values
This was written in Python and installed as a CLI tool or library using pipx/pip.
Azure DevOps Work Management CLI
https://github.com/owenmather/ado-cliEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Cork University College - Cork, Ireland
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Pandas
Tools
Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Grafana, Helm, PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA, Vim Text Editor, Apache Maven, VMware, Jupyter, AWS Glue, AWS IAM, GitHub, AWS CloudFormation, Jira, Autodesk Vault, Packer, Dynatrace
Languages
Python, Java, Bash, Python 3
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, DevSecOps
Platforms
Azure, Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, SAP HANA, Salesforce, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Oracle Database
Storage
Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL
Frameworks
Ant Design
Other
Architecture, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Cloud Architecture, GitHub Actions, Cloud Architecture, Cloud, Containerization, Orchestration, GitOps, Argo CD, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Software, Optimization, Computer Science
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