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meta:
  version: 2021.4.10
basics:
  name: Stephen Brown II
  label: Software Developer
  email: Stephen.Brown@gmail.com
  phone: "(443) 219-4559"
  website: https://stephenbrown2.github.io/resume
  class: Developer
  summary: A Linux sysad turned developer, I excel at finding and applying best practices
    to everything I do professionally, even if it takes a couple tries to get it working,
    then get it right, and apply those lessons learned in the future. With experience
    in multiple languages and systems, I am adept at learning new methodologies and
    keeping the basics in mind.
  location:
    address: 1652 Venice Ln
    city: Longmont
    region: CO
    postalCode: '80503'
    countryCode: US
  profiles:
  - network: GitHub
    username: StephenBrown2
    website: https://github.com/StephenBrown2
  - network: GitLab
    username: StephenBrown2
    website: https://gitlab.com/StephenBrown2
work:
- company: ObjectRocket
  location: Remote
  description: 'A Rackspace Technology Company'
  position: Software Developer
  website: https://objectrocket.com
  startDate: '2019-10-01'
  summary: ''
  highlights:
  - Maintained legacy apps and in-house libraries in Python
  - Began work in Golang developing new internal services using GoBuffalo framework
  - Utilized local setup in Docker for all projects
  - Worked in OpenShift and Kubernetes environments
  - Developed Helm charts for deploying internal services in k8s
  - Evaluated and documented use of AWS Fargate to deploy Prometheus metrics exporters
    connected to peered customer VPCs
- company: Rackspace Technology
  location: Remote
  description: ''
  position: Automation Engineer - Global Linux Automation Engineers
  website: https://rackspace.com
  startDate: '2018-09-11'
  endDate: '2019-10-01'
  summary: ''
  highlights:
  - Worked with UK-based team as sole US member
  - Helped maintain and develop Stepladder, a framework for employees to contribute
    tools with a common UI and deployment system
  - " - Frontend in Javascript, HTML, and CSS"
  - " - Backend webserver in Python using Flask and MySQL"
  - " - Client library (Librack) to interact with numerous API backends"
  - Implemented and configured deployment tools using Docker, Ansible, and Jenkins
  - Designed and built Jenkins 2.x Pipeline for testing development Pull Requests
  - Led team to implement better checks and consistency to improve and maintain code
    quality
- company: Rackspace Hosting
  location: San Antonio, TX
  description: 'The #1 managed cloud company'
  position: Automation Engineer - Global SysAd Maintenance Team
  website: https://rackspace.com
  startDate: '2017-06-03'
  endDate: '2018-09-10'
  summary: ''
  highlights:
  - Automated migration of scheduled maintenances to consolidate calendars, saving
    weeks of manual work
  - Developed reporting and categorization tools for whole team use
  - Wrote tools which enabled more efficient team workflows not otherwise possible
  - Inverted traditional scheduling process to improve customer experience
- company: Rackspace US, Inc.
  location: San Antonio, TX
  description: 'The #1 managed cloud company'
  position: Linux System Administrator - Global SysAd Maintenance Team
  website: https://rackspace.com
  startDate: '2015-05-16'
  endDate: '2017-06-03'
  summary: ''
  highlights:
  - Quickly identified and proposed tools and training to make team process more efficient
  - Contributed multiple features to team's jinja2-based templating system (Automaint)
  - Developed an auto-numbering tool for maintenance templates using React
  - Developed a custom UI that accesses the maintenance calendar backend and presented
    upcoming services using the fullcalendar javascript library
- company: Rackspace US, Inc.
  location: San Antonio, TX
  description: 'The open cloud company'
  position: Linux System Administrator - Global Technical Support
  website: https://rackspace.com
  startDate: '2014-01-06'
  endDate: '2015-05-15'
  summary: Enterprise-support Linux System Administrator (2nd shift)
  highlights:
  - Installed, configured, updated and troubleshot services for customers such as
    OS level concerns, web server, database server, applications server and mail;
    including Apache, MySQL, PHP, FTP, SSH and DNS
  - Contributed features and bug fixes to internal Python projects such as a password
    retrevial CLI tool (intensify), and general login automation CLI tools (overtime/hammertime)
- company: Johns Hopkins University
  location: Baltimore, MD
  description: Bloomberg School Of Public Health, Center For Communication Programs
  position: Linux System Administrator
  website: http://k4health.org
  startDate: '2011-04-01'
  endDate: '2013-12-30'
  summary: ''
  highlights:
  - Maintained and automated maintenance of servers for Drupal websites and multisites
    involving
  - " - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP infrastructure"
  - " - Physical and virtual CentOS 5 and 6 servers"
  - " - Apache Solr search indexes"
  - Proposed and taught dev team about git and multiple environment workflow concepts.
  - Successfully led team to adoption of git and a development > staging > production
    deployment workflow
  - Designed Puppet configuration management to maintain and deploy to development
    and production servers
  - Tested in local Vagrant environments
- company: MICROS Systems
  location: Columbia, MD
  description: ''
  position: Software Test Specialist - Tier 3 Escalations
  website: https://micros.com
  startDate: '2011-01-01'
  endDate: '2011-04-01'
  summary: Solved tough problems or delegated them to the right people
- company: Geek Squad
  location: Baltimore, MD
  description: ''
  position: Counter Operations Agent
  website: https://geeksquad.com
  startDate: '2010-10-01'
  endDate: '2010-12-31'
  summary: As a seasonal job fresh out of college, checking customer's PCs for viruses
    was the best I could do at the time
- company: Solnet Network and Web Services, LLC.
  location: ''
  description: ''
  position: Technical Support Specialist
  website: https://solnetweb.com
  startDate: '2010-04-01'
  endDate: '2010-10-01'
  summary: Serviced Windows desktops, servers, and networking infrastructure as on-site
    technical support
education:
- institution: LeTourneau University
  website: https://letu.edu
  area: Computer Information Systems
  studyType: Bachelor of Science
  startDate: '2005-08-01'
  endDate: '2009-12-15'
  score: '2.4'
  courses: []
certificates:
- name: Triplebyte certified Generalist Software Engineer
  date: '2020-08-20'
  website: https://triplebyte.com/tb/stephen-brown-ii-xjpelfb/certificate/track/generalist
  issuer: Triplebyte
- name: 'Red Hat Certified Engineer (ID: 140-027-434)'
  date: '2014-03-12'
  website: https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=140-027-434
  issuer: Red hat
- name: 'Red Hat Certified System Administrator (ID: 140-027-434)'
  date: '2014-02-19'
  website: https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=140-027-434
  issuer: Red Hat
- name: 'LPIC-1 (LPI ID: LPI000223384, Verification Code: ltd26ep79p)'
  date: '2010-12-30'
  website: https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification
  issuer: Linux Professional Institute
- name: Linux+ (Powered by LPI)
  date: '2010-12-30'
  website: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=B8FPZJHDMH1QCCCL
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Server+
  date: '2010-12-30'
  website: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=VXPPY2FJMGB4SWHY
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Security+
  date: '2010-03-02'
  website: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=Q7D5J84BCL41KZ8G
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: Network+
  date: '2010-02-08'
  website: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=R4LQNYQB2LRQKJV8
  issuer: CompTIA
- name: A+ (IT Technician)
  date: '2010-01-21'
  website: https://www.certmetrics.com/comptia/public/verification.aspx?code=CM1SNZCB2KEEYD90
  issuer: CompTIA
skills:
- name: Software languages
  keywords:
  - Python (Advanced),
  - Golang (Beginner)
  details:
  - text: Python
    comment: Advanced
  - text: Golang
    comment: Beginner
- name: Development practices
  keywords:
  - Docker (Intermediate),
  - Git (Intermediate)
  details:
  - text: Docker
    comment: Intermediate
  - text: Git
    comment: Intermediate
- name: Configuration management
  keywords:
  - Bash/Shell scripting (Advanced),
  - Ansible (Intermediate)
  details:
  - text: Bash/Shell scripting
    comment: Advanced
  - text: Ansible
    comment: Intermediate
- name: Infrastructure
  keywords:
  - Linux (Advanced),
  - Kubernetes (Beginner),
  - AWS (Beginner),
  - Terraform (Beginner)
  details:
  - text: Linux
    comment: Advanced
  - text: Kubernetes
    comment: Beginner
  - text: AWS
    comment: Beginner
  - text: Terraform
    comment: Beginner
languages:
- language: English
  fluency: Native
interests:
- name: Tesla
  summary: Electric cars are the future, and they're here now
  keywords:
  - Electric
  - Sustainable
  - Energy
  - Storage
  - Transportation
- name: Solar Power
  summary: It powers the earth, why not your house?
  keywords:
  - Electric
  - Sustainable
  - Energy
- name: Personal Finance
  summary: Budgeting rocks! How else am I going to meet my goals?
  keywords:
  - Money
  - Stewardship
- name: Home Automation
  summary: Why doesn't the fireplace turn on by itself when it's cold outside?
  keywords:
  - Automation
  - Techno-toys
references:
- name: Eva Aldana
  reference: ''
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: eva.coche@rackspace.com
- name: Jesse Wiles
  reference: ''
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: Jesse.Wiles@rackspace.com
- name: Freddy Esteban Perez
  reference: ''
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: Freddy.Perez@rackspace.com
- name: Duncan H. Murray
  reference: ''
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: duncan.h.murray@rackspace.co.uk
- name: Dan Hand
  reference: ''
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: email@danielhand.io
- name: Sam Sharpe
  reference: ''
  role: Former Teammate
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: sam.sharpe@rackspace.co.uk
- name: Ryan Mazurek
  reference: ''
  role: Former Manager
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: ryan.mazurek@rackspace.com
- name: Micah Culpepper
  reference: ''
  role: Colleague
  category: professional
  private: false
  contact:
  - label: Email
    category: email
    value: micah.culpepper@rackspace.com
projects:
  - name: Emcee
    description: An (unreleased) Python 3.6+ client for the internal Maintenance Calendar
    highlights:
    - Learned client design practices and version controlled releases
    keywords:
    - Python
    - JSON
    - API
    - Types
    startDate: '2018-01-31'
    endDate: '2019-10-01'
    url: https://github.rackspace.com/emcee/emcee
    roles:
    - Creator
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    type: side project
  - name: Stepladder
    type: internal
    description: A Flask-based web and API framework for internal tools
    summary: Learned remote collaboration and discussion skills while improving coding
      ability
    roles:
    - Contributor
    url: https://stepladder.rax.io/about
    startDate: '2017-10-17'
    endDate: '2019-10-01'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
    - Javascript
    - HTML
    - JSON
    - API
  - name: Hammertime
    type: internal
    description: CLI for interacting with Customer Servers
    summary: Added features and fixed bugs in the hammertime tool while maintaining
    roles:
    - Maintainer
    url: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/hammertime
    startDate: '2018-09-11'
    endDate: '2019-10-01'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
  - name: Librack
    type: internal
    description: A fully featured Python library with objects covering many Rackspace
      systems, meant to be a one stop shop for other python projects
    summary: Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including interface
      guarantees and deprecation
    roles:
    - Maintainer
    url: https://stepladder.rax.io/librack_docs
    startDate: '2018-01-02'
    endDate: '2019-10-01'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
  - name: Automaint
    type: internal
    description: A Jinja2 and Flask application running an Angular based web UI to generate
      and quality-check maintenance templates for execution
    summary: Learned to follow in the steps of an active project including deprecation
    roles:
    - Contributor
    url: https://stepladder.rax.io/automaint
    startDate: '2016-09-06'
    endDate: '2017-09-20'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
  - name: Intensify
    type: internal
    description: CLI tool/Python module for managing Intensive usernames and passwords
    summary: Assisted in quality testing and bug reporting
    roles:
    - Bug reporter
    url: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/intensify/blob/master/README.md
    repo: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/intensify
    startDate: '2015-10-23'
    endDate: '2016-10-06'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
  - name: Overtime/Hammertime
    type: internal
    description: CLI for interacting with Customer Servers
    summary: Added features and reported bugs to overtime, initially a fork integrating
      cloud support from another tool, hammercloud, now merged back into upstream hammertime
    roles:
    - Bug reporter
    url: https://github.rackspace.com/GTSLAE/mono/tree/master/hammertime
    repo: https://github.rackspace.com/SupportTools/overtime
    startDate: '2015-03-08'
    highlights: []
    entity: Rackspace Hosting
    keywords:
    - Python
  - name: Knowledge for Health
    type: public
    description: ''
    summary: Jr System Administrator managing entire project's CentOS linux servers
      and Drupal websites
    roles:
    - System Administrator
    url: https://www.k4health.org
    startDate: '2011-04-01'
    endDate: '2013-12-30'
    highlights: []
    entity: Johns Hopkins University - CCP
    keywords:
    - Linux
    - Drupal
    - LAMP