City Index (Labs, R&D)

Contract employment from April 2013 thru August 2015.

Systems Architect to research and build cloud-native tools supporting development and log processing for a small, distributed R&D team based in London. Work included packaging and operating Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for AWS and BOSH environments; performance testing for terabyte-scale workloads; establishing practices and tooling for monitoring.

Timeline

The following describes some of the milestones and notable changes during my time here, starting with the most recent events.

    1. Contract Ended
    1. Contract Renewed

      I renew a contract focused on log analysis via ELK-stack and BOSH infrastructure management.

      • Manage and grow the capacity of log analysis infrastructure.
      • Support deployment and management through Cloud Foundry BOSH.
      • Improve documentation and support open-source community of the project.
      Contract
      1 year
    1. Contract Renewed

      I start a new contract for building out an Elasticsearch-Kibana-Logstash stack.

      • Integrate Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash configuration management.
      • Automate infrastructure management for Amazon Web Services.
      Contract
      1 year
    1. Contract Renewed

      I start a new contract on a mutually-interesting, proof of concept project focused on Elasticsearch.

      • Research capabilities of Elasticsearch and Kibana for log analysis.
      • Manage infrastructure in Amazon Web Services.
      Contract
      3 months
    1. Contract Started

      I start a new contract for enhancements to my open-source project, ti-debug.

      • Update version dependencies.
      • Perform additional testing and support for WordPress environments.
      Contract
      3 weeks
      Workplace
      Remote from Denver, Colorado