Brent K.

About Brent K.

DevOps and Senior Software Engineer with a core focus and solid foundation in DevSecOps…

Experience

1. Senior Devops and Software Engineer

   Bullish

   Sep 2021 — Present · US

   Collaborated with development staff and other multi-disciplinary teams to deploy software releases and updates. Identified and implemented improvements to that process across 800 repositories. Setup and maintained source code management tools, repositories, workflows, pipelines, and automation of processes with applicable DevOps toolsets- Merged three sizable and dense repositories of Helm files to refactor as one consolidated release and determined previous team’s errors while merging programming code- Ran on-call white glove concierge service for diagnosing build and Kubernetes deployment issues in a variety of environments using K9S and tools for 98 services in each environment- Crafted and produced reoccurring reports of what commits had gone into a scheduled build from the 800 repositories- Modified BuildKite YAML, BASH and Python scripts to produce highly targeted requirements outputs and to satisfy specific customer objectives- Designed and produced End-to-End testing methodology with Jacoco for Java based services- Assembled iOS build pipeline using Buildkite and Britrise to build and distribute iOS applications to Firebase. Also, to obfuscate applications using zShield as well as build Android pipelines for rapid CI/CD product and code deployment- Enhanced and updated Terraform for improvements to Buildkite agents and modified Dockerfiles to update Buildkite agents- Managed several GitHub repositories with custom Python scripts for required best practice baseline security and review settings- During the log4j CVE vulnerability IT industry-wide crisis time-period. I was charged with the highly critical task of running scans against a large quantity of Java code base repositories while leveraging and utilizing Whitesource and Mend.

Education

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Bachelor of Science