resume.json

resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Michael T. Halligan",
    "label": "Infrastructure as Code & DevOps Engineer",
    "location": {
      "city": "Istanbul",
      "timezone": "UTC+3"
    },
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "cruftyoldsysadmin",
        "url": "https://github.com/cruftyoldsysadmin"
      }
    ],
    "objective": "Seeking remote opportunities in globally distributed engineering teams"
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "NomadOps",
      "position": "Co-founder",
      "startDate": "2021-10",
      "summary": "DevOps and Infrastructure as Code consulting for various clients"
    },
    {
      "company": "BitPusher",
      "position": "DevOps Consultant",
      "startDate": "2021-05",
      "endDate": "2021-09",
      "summary": "Bootstrapped the production AWS infrastructure for a new SaaS AI product; Built a multi-region, high-volume AWS EKS cluster using ArgoCD and Kustomize; Implemented DevOps Pipelines with the GruntWorks Terraform Reference Architecture; Enabled self-service developer environment provisioning and automated documentation"
    },
    {
      "company": "CloudPassage",
      "position": "Sr. DevOps Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-09",
      "endDate": "2020-05",
      "summary": "Refactored a large, monolithic Terraform implementation into a modular, reusable architecture using Terragrunt; Migrated from DCOS/OpenMesos to AWS EKS, cutting cluster resource costs by 25% and reducing operational overhead by 50%; Mentored and led engineers in Belarus and Ukraine; Managed vendor relations with offshored contracting firms; Replaced Jenkins, RunDeck, and internal CI/CD with CircleCI and GitHub Actions; Facilitated developer self-service within a complex framework of role-based access controls for offshored, foreign engineers to comply with data control regulations and contractual obligations"
    },
    {
      "company": "HotSchedules",
      "position": "Sr. Infrastructure Engineer",
      "startDate": "2016-07",
      "endDate": "2018-08",
      "summary": "Helped architect and execute a migration of legacy applications from dedicated servers to Amazon Web Services; Implemented a multi-region, multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform and AWS Control Tower; Replaced CloudFormation and a large repository of ad-hoc scripts with SaltStack; Maintained and upgraded a large Puppet codebase, replacing dozens of hacks with newer Puppet features; Migrated from an in-house monitoring and logging solution to ELK stack and Hosted Grafana; Implemented Okta SSO and performed major Puppet upgrades"
    },
    {
      "company": "PagerDuty",
      "position": "DevOps Evangelist",
      "startDate": "2010-01",
      "endDate": "2010-10",
      "summary": "DevOps Evangelist and 9th employee at an early-stage cloud monitoring startup; Lead generation and sales process management for large enterprise customers; Conference marketing at DevOps Days, Re:Invent, and Velocity; Managed Puppet infrastructure for production infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "company": "BitPusher",
      "position": "CTO/Co-founder",
      "startDate": "2003",
      "endDate": "2010",
      "summary": "Co-founded and managed a profitable consulting company focused on deploying and managing production infrastructure for early-stage startups."
    },
    {
      "company": "Napster",
      "position": "Systems Administrator",
      "startDate": "2000",
      "endDate": "2001",
      "summary": "Managed datacenter, server, and network infrastructure for an early P2P start-up"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    "Infrastructure as Code",
    "DevOps",
    "AWS",
    "Terraform",
    "Terragrunt",
    "Ansible",
    "Packer",
    "Puppet",
    "CloudFormation",
    "Kubernetes",
    "Docker",
    "CI/CD",
    "Monitoring",
    "Linux",
    "Unix",
    "Automation",
    "Bash",
    "Golang",
    "Python",
    "Percussion",
    "Bicycle maintenance"
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "AWS Solutions Architect Associate"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS SysOps Administrator Associate"
    },
    {
      "name": "AWS Cloud Practitioner"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Turkish & Balkan percussion",
      "keywords": ["percussion", "music", "darbuka"]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bicycle frame and wheel building",
      "keywords": ["bicycles","welding","fabrication","mechanics"]
    }
  ]
}