Josh White
Infrastructure Engineer
Career Objective:
A highly experienced problem solver with 10+ years experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle, from planning and design to implementation and maintenance. Excellent ability to work with a team to find solutions and deliver key improvements in systems. A proven track record of taking ownership of complex problems and breaking them down into actionable tasks. Seeking a challenging team environment to leverage and expand a diverse technical skill set.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA
Mathematics and Philosophy minors
Aug 2007 - Dec 2011
Primary Strengths: Ownership, Bias for Action, Detail Oriented, Communication and Documentation
Node, Typescript, Linux, Shell, Bash, SQL, Postgres, GIT, TDD, Docker, React, Next.js, Azure, GCP, DevOps
Work Experience
Infrastructure Engineer, Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc.
March 2023 - Present
Spearheaded development projects that integrated data sources from multiple systems, increasing visibility and operational insights for management to enhance operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making.
Developed multiple custom services and portals to reduce error prone manual processes and facilitate data aggregation and reporting.
Planned and developed systems and data models, managed databases and migrations, wrote Azure apps to pull data from APIs of multiple services we used to provide site availability and reliability statistics, and log planned and unplanned outage events.
Led development effort for several bigger projects, designed and planned multiple projects for bigger systems, broke into pieces to distribute to team members and led development and blockers.
Managed all Azure resources for development.
Built many internal tools using Retool (low-code) to help with repetitive operational tasks.
Career Break for Personal Enrichment
June 2013 - March 2018
Spent time enjoying life, learning, and working on small projects:
React / Next.js / Angular / Flutter
Unity / C#, Godot / GD Script
Google Cloud Functions, Firestore, Auth.
Built a Flutter app and uploaded to Google Play store.
See examples, screenshots and try them out: Full Project List
Support Engineer III, Amazon.com, Inc
June 2013 - March 2018
Provided essential technical and maintenance support to development teams as a member of the supply chain systems support team while contributing to development projects and data analysis initiatives.
When on-call: Handled an average of 20 high severity pages a week from around 20 teams, including large scale real-time procurement and fulfillment systems. Expected to triage, troubleshoot, deep dive, and identify the root cause of these issues in real time.
When not on call; owner of ticket queue and deep dived recurring issues; driving them to resolution.
Managed pipelines, monitoring, fleet capacity and scaling, logging, migrations/config changes, DNS and load-balancer configurations.
Made updates to the team's internal Rails website, adding features to streamline support goals.
Worked on development projects, API integrations, dependency migrations, distributed jobs for data collection and analysis, bug fixes and feature requests suitable for entry level developers.
Quality Assurance Analyst, Service Link LLC
Dec 2011 – June 2013
Responsibilities include functional testing, root cause analysis, defect tracking which includes writing Oracle SQL queries, debugging problem orders, working with developers and business analysts to ensure quality from design and work out design flaws before they happen.