Hey, my name is Will. I do DevOps.
For the past few years, I've been using Python and Javascript to facilitate event management for a Security Operations Center. I also used cloud native tools to develop and deploy infrastructure to run ETL pipelines.
I've been using these tools extensively:
- Terraform
- AWS deployment (VPC, EKS, EC2, IAM, Route53, RDS, Elasticache, and more)
- I know modules in and out, remote modules, local modules, nested modules, git modules, inputs, outputs, everything!
- Kubernetes
- Orchestrated serverless applications to receive, transform, and deliver data
- Elasticsearch
- Lots of API usage to manage and manipulate data
- I've done a lot with ingestion, queries, mapping, templates, reindexing, analysis, searching, and more
- ServiceNow (including quite a bit of scripting within the platform)
- StreamSets
- Python
- Javascript
- WSL
- VSCode
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Prior to my current DevOps role, I was the Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer at H&R Block, and my primary role was to engineer the organization's response to risk by analyzing the threat landscape and preparing appropriate prevention measures as well as to design the response for various scenarios.
Firewalls and Networking
Before that, I spent three years in the SOC for which I'm now performing development. I provided support for all things networking - switching, routing, firewalls, and configuration management.
My specialties were:
- Juniper SRX/EX (with some MX here and there)
- Pulse Secure VPN
- Palo Alto Networks firewalls
IT Consulting
From 2010-2015, I provided tech consulting for homes and business in Lawrence, KS and then the San Francisco Bay Area.
While in those positions, I worked a lot with:
- VMWare ESXi
- Windows Servers
- Synology
- Windows/macOS/Linux/iOS
- Viruses/malware
- Hardware repair
Outside of work
- Being a dad!
- Dungeons and Dragons (latest campaign here)
- Currently playing: No Man's Sky, New World
- Projects around the house (novice DIYer)
- Riding my bicycle around Lawrence, Kansas
I also have this website: Homelab.City