Joel Gilley

Bluesight

2022-03 – Present

Alexandria, VA (Remote)

Principal DevOps Engineer

Principal Engineer working remotely on DevOps responsibilities for Bluesight.
Focus on architecting, building, and maintaining modern infrastructure at scale.

MakeSpace

2019-02 – 2022-03

New York, NY

Engineering Manager - Senior DevOps Team Manager

Augmented and managed a primarily remote DevOps team.
Goals included streamlining developer experience and improving production reliability.
Containerized legacy applications with Docker, increasing parity between environments.
Moved codebase toward fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
Shifted monitoring from reactive to proactive.
Refactored infrastructure into Infrastructure-as-Code.

AWS ECS Docker K8s Go Python Terraform Jenkins Drone.io Grafana

Milestones

Created near production parity with local and remote environments
Encouraged adoption of 12-factor methodology
Introduced reliable autoscaling based on trending data
Migrated from EC2/Ansible to Docker/ECS
Refactored data warehouse security for access
Decreased incident response times significantly

Vroom

2018-12 – 2019-02

New York, NY

DevOps Engineer

A contract role focused on DevOps.
Gained exposure to Google Cloud Services (GCS) and Microsoft Azure.

GCS Microsoft Azure

Samples

2018-06 – 2018-10

New York, NY

Senior DevOps Engineer

Short stint before NYC engineering team dissolved.
Introduced Kubernetes and developer-driven CI/CD pipeline.

Kubernetes CI/CD

Chegg Inc.

2016-06 – 2018-05

Santa Clara, California (Remote)

Senior DevOps Engineer

Chegg acquired Imagine Easy in 2016, position continued.
Worked with AWS, OpsWorks, CloudFormation, Lambda.
Adopted Convox, Docker, Docker Swarm, Ruby, Python, Node.js.

AWS OpsWorks CloudFormation Lambda Convox Docker Docker Swarm Ruby Python Node.js

Imagine Easy Solutions

2015-01 – 2016-06

New York, NY

Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps responsibilities at Imagine Easy Solutions.
Worked heavily with AWS, OpsWorks, Docker, supporting developer workflow.
Buzzwords: AWS, OpsWorks, Convox, Docker, SparkleFormation, Chef, Ruby.

AWS OpsWorks Convox Docker SparkleFormation Chef Ruby

Metropolist

2012 – 2014

New York, NY

Technology Director, Senior Software Engineer

Full stack development and DevOps support for a startup.
Refactored original codebase and infrastructure into scalable enterprise service.
Integrated CDN, social media, geolocation, on-demand data mining, API-based backend.
Provided agile and rapid development for project enhancements.
Infrastructure management, maintenance, frontend + backend support.

AWS LAMP (Ubuntu, Apache 2.4, MySQL 5.5, PHP 5.4) Python ObjectiveC HTML5 CSS3 JS JQuery Memcache

Milestones

Created several prototype iOS apps with Metropolist API
MySQL clustering for recovery
Automated data storage/recovery
Onsite and offsite monitoring/management
On-demand image asset SaaS

Honestly Now Inc.

2011-09 – 2012-04

New York, NY

Senior Software Engineer

Startup Q&A platform for personal decisions.
Migrated codebase and infrastructure to scalable environment.
Augmented offshore frontend JavaScript development.
Prototyped cross-platform app using HonestlyNow API.

AWS LAMP (Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Python HTML5 CSS3 JS JQuery ObjectiveC

Columbia University Medical Center

2010-11 – 2011-09

Cupertino, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Senior Systems Architect

Two project teams: hospital big data and educational startup.
Developed infrastructure for realtime ingest/mining of big data.
Integrated HIPAA-compliant pipelines.
Developed scalable backend for HD video, PDF/DOC storage and indexing.
Built syllabus/course/test module with search of captions + documents.

LAMP (CentOS/Fedora, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Ruby Python HTML5 CSS3 JS JQuery Visual C++

Milestones

On demand transcoding of raw video to HTML5 formats
Developed HTML5 player with CC support and HTML markup
Autoindexing/search for HTML5 player

Micronets / Vidavee / Vignette / OpenText

2005-02 – 2011-11

New York, NY

Senior Software Engineer / Systems Architect

Video startup creating turnkey video/DVD product.
Developed transcoding SaaS, embedded in Wordpress/Joomla.
Rebranded to Vidavee in 2006, adopted by Wordpress.com.
Acquired by Vignette (2008), then OpenText (2009).
R&D on streaming technologies (Darwin, Silverlight).
Prototypes for sales, backend transcoding improvements.

LAMP (Fedora, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Java JavaScript HTML4/5 CSS Python C C++

Milestones

Developed CPU-leveraging transcoding
Created PHP on-demand transcoding platform
Built FIFO messaging queue
Live node/transcode dashboard
Progressive video delivery with Darwin/MS Streaming

Orolix

2004 – 2005

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Software Engineer / Systems Architect

Consultant Systems Engineer, rapid prototyping.

LAMP (Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Java C/C++

Picostar, Inc.

1999 – 2001

Palo Alto, CA

Software Engineer / Systems Engineer

Web Application Developer, Web Design, Systems Engineer.
Worked on embedded Linux (Cowboy Linux).

C/C++ C# Java LAMP HTML CSS JS

Milestones

Created PTZ library with progressive JPEG streaming
Created Cowboy Linux distro

Fischer Computer Systems

1996 – 2004

Angwin, CA

Senior Systems Architect / Senior Software Engineer

Web Application Developer, Web Design, Systems Engineer.

LAMP Stack C/C++ Java

Apple / FutureTel

1995 – 1996

Mountain View, CA

Software Engineering Consultant

Human Interface Design and Rapid Application Prototyping.
Web Design, toolkit prototyping.

Apple MPW ANSI C ANSI C++ MS VB

Milestones

Developed lightweight video indexing/editing toolkit

CISCorp

1991 – 1995

Cupertino, CA

Software Engineer

Human Interface Design and Rapid Application Prototyping.

Apple MPW C/C++

Master Software

1990 – 1991

Walnut Creek, CA

Software Engineer

Human Interface Design, Device Driver Software.

Apple Hypercard C/C++

Milestones

Created screen scrape I/O communications library for Supercard

Models and Prototypes

1987 – 1990

Berkeley, CA

Software Engineer

CNC Milling Machine software development.

Apple Hypercard C

Meeting Technologies

1986 – 1987

Berkeley, CA

Software Engineer

User Interface Prototyping.

Apple Hypercard Basic C