Charlie McClung

Managing the development team.
Focusing on improving agile processes and DevOps practices.
Hands on with AWS infrastructure, and most client projects.
Developed standardized Docker development environment and custom CI/CD pipeline using serverless webhooks + AWS CodeBuild + AWS CloudFormation to deploy services to AWS ECS Cluster(s).

Hired on as a full time software engineer after the contract. Continuing to work in NodeJS, on an enterprise level web platform.
Inherited majority of DevOps responsibilities in the Boulder office. "Dockerized" all existing services and improved stability, availability and the deployment processes.
Coordinated with teams across the world to further improve DevOps efforts across the company. Using Jenkins, Kubernetes, and homegrown tools/services.

Side contract job with local startup for on-call system support. Available 24/7 to handle emergency system outages. Leading architecture/infrastructure rebuild for supporting new platform release:
Redesigned & rebuilt components/services to be encapsulated, simpler, easier to understand & maintain, and easier to coordinate deployments with more granular CI/CD for each service. Utilizing many new and exciting DevOps & AWS technologies, specifically Docker in ECS and Lambda to achieve this new architecture

Contract position to rebuild the website for the FormIt product team in Boulder. Researched, devised, and implemented a new website (including infrastructure) in less than 3 months. Built minimal custom CMS site using KeystoneJS (on NodeJS). Also created provisioning playbooks (using Ansible) to create local dev machine(s) with vagrant, and also deploy to AWS EC2 instance(s)

Development for a Ruby on Rails project to process auto repair loans. Worked extensively with backend integrations with vendors (CRM/DMS/etc). Coordinated server deployment and provisioning of several different instances with specific roles/tasks. Gained significant amount of experience with AWS, Vagrant, Ansible, Docker, and other devops related technologies.

Used an existing curriculum to teach the basics of web development (HTML, CSS, JS, + PHP & MySQL). Had to update specific assignments and assessments that were out of date. Spent most time grading homework assignments and projects. Enjoyed mentoring a group of people through their early interests in web development

Working mainly on PHP applications. Many small client-facing sites with quick turnaround. Also significant work on internal tools and applications to increase efficiency and productivity. Experience building and utilizing a wide range of API's and services. Using different frameworks, such as: CodeIgniter, jQuery, Bootstrap, and others.

Spent time working on iOS apps and native Mac apps, helping to become more familiar with Objective C. Built and customized many websites and web-based applications. Managed remote VPS system using Linode with Ubuntu to run several web apps and services.

Maintained several Windows and Linux servers for the University. Learned about Active Directory and complex server configurations and relationships. Helped build and maintain several internal/external web applications, as well as desktop applications tool using C# & Objective C.