Hi, I'm Connor.

Professional Experience

• Developed and monitored systems, software, and cloud architecture

• Applied Dynatrace to spot negative trends and discover problem areas.

• Set custom alerting system via Opsgenie to reduce MTTR.

• Created Dynatrace dashboards to provide Development and SRE teams with real-time charts/graphs of product performance.

• Utilized Kloud9/OneAgent to install Dynatrace agents on hosts.

• Created Jenkins jobs to automate the application deployment and rollback process. Documented deployments using Service Now.

• Migrated between cloud platforms. Developed a script to automate code changes. Monitored health of applications post-migration.

• Used Splunk to troubleshoot applications on event-based issues.

• Configured, maintained, and ensured security and compliance of Linux servers.

• Created and maintained successful CI/CD process with Jenkins.

• Created Event-Driven Ansibles (EDA) for automating tasks.

• Implemented Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Dynatrace in conjunction with Dynatrace’s apdex scores to get a high-level overview of product performance.

• Used Kloud9 to ensure compliance across 5 products. Automated patching.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology - Master of Science, Computer Science,

2024 - 2026 (Online)

Relevant coursework:

University of Texas at Austin - Postgraduate Degree, Cloud Computing

2017 - 2022 (Starkville, MS)

Mississippi State University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2024 - 2024 (Online)

ADP - System Reliability Engineer

Tech Stack

CODING LANGUAGES

TECHNOLOGIES AND FRAMEWORKS

2022 - 2024

• Cloud pricing and scaling models

• Distributed Computing

• Infrastructure Automation

• AWS global infrastructure - Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations

• Compute - EC2, Load Balancers, AMI

• Storage - EBS, S3, EFS, Volumes, Snapshots

• Networking - VPC, NAT, Bastion Hosts, Route53

• Identity & Access Management - Users, Roles, Policies & Permissions

• Cost calculator

• AWS CLI

• Hybrid Cloud and networking

• Azure

Topics covered so far:

Projects

Fedex "EzPST"

Mississippi State University - 2022

• Mobile and web interface for FedEx shipping hubs

• The mobile version gives ground employees the opportunity to scan bar codes of packages lost within shipping hubs. Then relays the information from the bar code to Data Sheets that can be viewed by managers in the Web Interface. Presented the project directly to FedEx via Zoom, implementing ideas that they liked and removing features they disliked.

Barcode scanner in use:

Movie Recommending Chatbot

Mississippi State University - 2022

• AI Chat Bot that recommends movies based on user input such as genre, date of release, actors, etc

• Used Flask library to collaboratively use Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. A chat bot interface was prepared using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Python would take input from the chat bot and utilize a WebCrawler with Beautiful Soup applying a Depth First Search through IMDB’s database to discover movie information and output movie recommendations to another webpage.

Chatbot tutorial:

MaxChat

Personal - 2023

• Social media app for pets.

• Used Swift in collaboration with Google's Firestore and Firebase to create an app that would send and receive data via Firestore. Initial app creation was heavily inspired by Instagram's UI.

MaxChat demo pt. 1:

MaxChat demo pt. 2:

C++ Courses:

• Data Structures, Intermediate Programming

C Courses:

• Systems Programming, Operating Systems

Python Courses:

• Intro Programming, Methods & Tools in SW Dev

SQL Courses:

• Database Management Systems

Web Development/Front End Development Courses

• Web Development

• Human-Computer Interaction

Miscellaneous Courses:

• Discrete Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Computing and Cyber Security, Intro to Algorithms

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Issuer: The Linux Foundation

Issued August 2024 - Expires August 2027

Badge here Certificate here

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Badge here Certificate here

Issued July 2024 - Expires July 2026

• Intro to Info Security

Relevant coursework:

• Software Architecture & Design

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

Badge here Certificate here

Issued August 2024 - Expires August 2026

Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Associate Solutions Architect

2024 - Present

• Prioritizing security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost-optimization in cloud architecture.