Josh Beard

Senior DevOps Engineer with Live Oak Bank

September 2022 - Present · Remote

Lead DevSecOps Engineer with Ventera, Inc at USGS

June 2022 - Present · Remote

• Contracted to Water Resources Mission Area at the US Geological Survey.

• DevSecOps on a small team working on a project focused on modernizing and advancing a highly-utilized set of services for water data collected and provided by the USGS.

• Collaboratively designed, implemented, and supported infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a Python codebase of Lambda functions, modularized static websites, and supporting resources.

• Cloud-native and 'serverless' application development and infrastructure.

• Integrated and automated code analysis into developer workflow and pipeline.

Key technology: AWS (CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, IAM, RDS, API Gateway, more), GitLab, Python, Jira

Lead DevOps Engineer with Apogee Engineering, LLC at USGS

September 2015 - May 2022 · Remote

• Contracted to Science Analytics and Synthesis at the US Geological Survey.

• Lead and contributed to many of the group's most challenging technical projects.

• Collaborated with over a dozen teams to deliver applications to the USGS science community.

• Worked with hundreds of codebases spanning several languages and product teams.

• Responsible for the architecture and implementation of the IT platform for over 50 USGS products.

• Migrated over 50 products from on-premise and on-VM deployments to AWS deployments, using Docker and native AWS services.

• Composed CI/CD pipelines for hundreds of projects, improving consistency through automation, empowering product teams, and reducing friction for releasing software.

• Authored and maintained hundreds of pages of robust documentation for "all things DevOps" and project-specific documentation, utilizing Markdown and adopting a "docs-as-code" workflow.

• Instructed colleagues on a variety of subjects, including Docker, AWS, and Terraform.

• Implemented and maintained configuration management (Puppet, Ansible) across hundreds of servers.

• Implemented and maintained Infrastructure as Code across dozens of applications and services.

• Developed new HTTP architecture, utilizing CloudFront, Nginx, and S3.

Key technology: Linux, GitLab, Docker, AWS (wide range of services), Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Python, Packer, VMware vSphere, Jira, Artifactory, Bamboo, BitBucket, Tomcat, Ruby, Nginx, Traefik, Apache

Sr. Professional Services Engineer with Puppet Inc.

September 2013 - April 2015 · Remote

• Consulted on Puppet products and DevOps practices for a wide range of customers, including some of Puppet's largest customers and most sophisticated engagements.

• Instructed dozens of classes on Puppet products to organizations and general public.

• Contributed Puppet modules and other tools for community use and used within Puppet's commercial products.

• Developed Puppet, Ruby, and shell code for extending products and automating processes.

• Consulted on pre-sales, scoping of work, and post-sales support.

• Earned high marks for customer satisfaction, team work, and professionalism.

Key technology: Linux, Puppet and Puppet Enterprise, Git, GitLab, Packer, Vagrant, Jira, Tomcat, Ruby, Shell, Nginx, Apache, WebSphere

Linux/Unix Systems Administrator with Douglas School District

January 2010 - September 2013 · Box Elder, SD

• Deployed and administered school district Linux and FreeBSD servers and services for thousands of users.

• Improved integration across network services for over 2,000 students, faculty, and staff.

• Administered network file systems, HTTP, DNS/DHCP, Firewalls, Monitoring, Logging, Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, filtering, webmail), and other services for all district users.

• Improved workstation provisioning through automation, deploying several hundred new workstations a year.

• Introduced configuration management (Puppet) to manage servers.

• Redesigned district website and implemented WordPress to manage it.

Key technology: FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Puppet, Apache, Nginx, BIND, Shell, HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, KVM, pf, Sophos, Graylog, Nginx, Icinga, NFS, Postfix, WordPress

Tier II Technical Support with Apple, Inc.

October 2008 - January 2010 · Remote

Signal Support Systems Specialist with US Army

August 2006 - October 2008 · Fort Carson, CO