University of Nevada-Las Vegas

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Career Break

Health and well-being

First Backend/DevOps hire responsible for developing the next generation cardiovascular disease management solution. 

Created the Riva Sensor Cloud, utilized in clinical trials and FDA De Novo submission. The Sensor SDK and Cloud enable third-party apps to accurately measure blood pressure and heart rate via the camera sensor. 

Collaborated with the Riva Clinical Team to develop Dashboard and tools and workflows that significantly improved patients' blood pressure and cholesterol levels in less than 2 weeks, positively impacting over 100 patients. 

Backend: 
• Led feature development for APIs, async jobs, databases (Go, Postgres, Couchbase)
• Spearheaded the implementation of Go multiple micro and monolith services via REST and GraphQL 
• Designed and implemented Temporal Workflows to enhance patient care effectiveness 
• Established CI/CD pipelines and automated testing processes using Github Actions
• Designed and Implemented FDA validation procedures, including testing and vulnerability analysis 
• Monitored application health and implemented alerting systems 

DevOps: 
• Ensured compliance with HIPAA and SOC2 security standards 
• Orchestrated Kubernetes/EKS environments 
• Configured and maintained monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog and PagerDuty 
• Proficient in Amazon Web Services (EC2, EKS, LB, S3, RDS, Elasticache, IAM, etc) 
• Skilled in Docker, EKS/Kubernetes, Kustomize, and Helm 
• Integrated Hashicorp Terraform and Vault for all App Services

Riva Health

Staff Engineer / Backend Lead

Employee #3 (acquired by harness.io), where I played a key role in commercializing Spinnaker, Netflix's open-source next-gen immutable infrastructure CD platform. 

• Open Source Maintainer for Netflix's Spinnaker (https://spinnaker.io/) 
• Spinnaker Feature Development and integrations with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
• Expertise in CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, AWS, and GCP 
• Improving team (across the org) efficiency by building tools
• Lead engineering interviewer
• Experience as a Support Engineer and Sales Engineer 
• Mentoring and cultural side projects 
• Setting up and maintaining IT, networking, DNS, and firewall configurations

Armory

Senior Software Engineer and Eng Lead (Acquired)

• Built subscriptions and voucher logic and maintain charging logic.
• Maintained monolith Node.js app and currently breaking up services to micro services.
• Setup/Maintain Spinnaker (continuous, scalable deployments using AWS clusters).
• Implemented push notifications for the valet app and customer apps.
• Created mass notification tool used for traffic warnings and general information.
• Built TaskService (graphical representation of a stateful reservation system).
• Built TaskService debugger for visual representation of the connected graphs.
• A/B Testing Framework
• Added support for partner integrations through a public, shared API.
• Added Kong authentication.

• Setup/DJ biweekly "All Hands" broadcasted presentations across 6 cities

Luxe

Software Engineer - Node.JS

• Technical Support for Integrating Google Wallet on Android, Web, and iOS.

Google

Google Wallet Technical Support

• Principle backend engineer working in Node.js and MongoDB.
• Automated baking and deployment using grunt to Heroku.
• Mentored intern engineers

JobCouch

Lead Software Engineer

• Added support for multilingual confirmation documents by creating a selection algorithm tailored to a customer’s language preference; over 1,000 print/emails are sent daily. 
• Developer for a mission-critical reservation systems by improving usability and stability, used by thousands of reservation agents. 
• Transition functionality from an older reservation system to a new in-house managed system.

Diamond Resorts International®

Software Engineer

• Installation technician for multimedia and control systems into educational learning environments, meeting rooms, and presentation rooms.

CCS Presentation Systems

Field Installation Technician

• Lead Developer — Designed and implemented an MVC, RESTful environment in Node.js and MongoDB. 
• Created a cross-platform development environment. 
• Integrated with Social Media, Elasticsearch, AWS S3, SendGrid and deployed to Heroku.

Loopfirst

CTO & Co-Founder

Student Coordinator & Audio Visual Technician:

• Coordinated a team of 7 to provide quality onsite support for 450 faculties and instructors. 
• Authored help/support guides to minimize instructor startup times. 
• Created quarterly/yearly reports highlighting the growth and performance of the team.
• Installed, maintained, and supported audio visual equipment across the campus (200+ classrooms, presentation spaces, portable equipment)
• Managed vendor relationships, such as iClicker to be fully supported campus wide


Classroom Computer IT:

• Developed a desktop application to install and keep software up to date remotely across a fleet of 200+ computers
• Setup FTP server to host software packages and updates
• Developed a program to utilize P2P protocols to improve disk imaging speeds
• Reduced deployment times from 2 weeks of manual work down to days

University of Nevada Las Vegas

Student Coordinator

• Training and supporting audio visual technologies.
• Help desk and on call technician.

Kevin Woo