Andrew Poland
Development
Indiana, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Andrew Poland's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Andrew also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Andrew Poland has 23 years of work experience, with 14 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
Tools Engineer, Demandforce
Intuit
January 2012 - December 2013
- Java web application development and troubleshooting. Designed and developed devops tools to manage dev and production web and database clusters for a rapidly growing SaaS startup. Linux systems administration and application deployment automation using Chef on both physical hardware and Amazon AWS.
Principal Systems Administrator
Indiana University
January 2007 - December 2012
- Storage and Virtualization Built IU's state-wide public cloud. Highly Available enterprise server virtualization (VMware ESX), SAN, and cross-site data backup/recovery for thousands of mission-critical statewide systems.
Principal Developer Analyst
Indiana University
January 2002 - December 2007
- Course Management Systems Developed course management and distance learning software using service-oriented Java and Open Source technologies. Performance optimization, infrastructure and architecture design for state wide application systems (100,000+ users).
Unix Systems Specialist
Indiana University
January 2001 - December 2002
- Research support for Unix workstations including Linux, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD, Tru64.
Director of Software Engineering
DemandJump
January 2018 - December 2020
- Implemented SAML single sign on product features. Managed the software team, application architecture, infrastructure, and budget for a growing marketing analytics startup. DevOps, CI, and Kubernetes lead. Successfully lead the team through a devops transformation introducing container management and CI/CD best practices to the company. Lead the team through a complete frontend rewrite from legacy JS to React.
Senior Operations Architect
Angie's List
January 2015 - December 2017
- Design and implementation of key internal cloud automation and software deployment APIs and tools. Migrated dozens of web scale applications to container based automation using Docker. Advised software engineering teams to on best use of AWS resources. Introduced configuration management concepts and tooling to the organization.
Systems Engineer
BlueLock
January 2013 - December 2015
- Built tools to automate deployment and operations of VMware based multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. Worked with engineering and development groups to develop an infrastructure-as-code (devops) culture.
Production Engineer
June 2012 - August 2012
- Developed python based deployment tools to manage large clusters of servers.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Aserto
January 2022 - Present
- Product software development including Go, python, and Javascript. Infrastructure owner for GCP, Azure, and AWS production workloads supporting our cloud native authorization platform. Kubernetes clusters, Gitops workflows, monitoring, log analysis. Originated and implemented the company wide SOC 2 compliance program and oversaw the audits.
Senior Software Engineer, ActiveCampaign
Secure Product Engineering
January 2021 - December 2022
- Design and implementation of product-wide authentication systems including Oauth2 and SAML. Responsible for remediation of security issues across a wide range of new and legacy code in Java, PHP, JavaScript, .NET and others.
Senior Software Engineer, Docket
January 2020 - December 2021
- Backend software development, DevOps, CI, and Kubernetes lead. Developed a collaborative document editor and search engine using PostgreSQL, Node.js, python, Elasticsearch, Websockets.
Education
Purdue School of Science
Master of Science
