Ivan Lawrence Link to heading

Full Stack Developer / DevOps Engineer Link to heading

Email: ivan@ivanlawrence.com | Phone: 818-264-4467 | Location: Simi Valley, CA

Links: LinkedIn | IMDb | https://ivanlawrence.com/resume

Professional Summary Link to heading

Devoted systems/software engineer with 20+ years of professional experience across a variety of technical disciplines. Proven track record from on-premises private cloud to public cloud migrations and back again.

Experience  Link to heading

Senior Software / Full-Stack Developer Link to heading

MerchantWords.com, May 2018 - Present Link to heading

MerchantWords collects, processes, and analyzes billions of data points from major online marketplaces to provide marketing insights into each sales platform.

  • Oversee all technology, implementing new AI tools and workflows, personally developing infrastructure/operations and UX/full-stack software.

  • Pioneered the CI/CD pipeline to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments and efficient bug/fix analysis.

  • Ensure backward compatibility for new deployments across a blend of monolith and microservices, written in various modern frameworks, vanilla, and legacy code spanning over a decade.

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements like GDPR, maintaining secure frontend/backend technologies within international restrictions.

  • Practice GitOps methodologies with a focus on environment repeatability and business continuity.

  • Manage a blended, cloud-agnostic hybrid code-based infrastructure, utilizing providers that offer the most business sense.

  • Utilize a wide range of software daily, including MySQL, ELK (ElasticSearch/Kibana), JAVA, NodeJS, Go, Python, VueJS, JQuery, BootStrap JSP, BASH, Linux CLI tools, Ansible, Terraform, Git, BigQuery, Cloud Build, Cloud Functions, and Google App Engine.

DevOps / SysOps Engineer Link to heading

ReachLocal.com / Gennett , April 2015 - May 2018 Link to heading

ReachLocal is a marketing and SEO platform that provides services to businesses of all sizes, helping them analyze business metrics to drive growth and marketing.

  • Led a dedicated infrastructure team that maintained and grew an internationally distributed hybrid cloud infrastructure.

  • Guided development best practices and enforced regulatory compliance for PCI DSS and other standards, utilizing the Agile development methodology.

  • Assumed rotating SCRUM Master responsibilities, fostering a broader understanding of team requirements across software development, database administration, and infrastructure.

  • Managed the global infrastructure, which included DNS/BIND, private CDN, nginx, NetApp, EC2, Route53, ELB, CloudFormation, hypervisor management (XEN, OpenCloud), and bare metal installations of RHEL/Ubuntu systems.

  • Previously led the Enterprise Technology team, where we managed site-to-site VPN, WiFi and network infrastructure, office security systems, a JIRA-based ticketing system, SRE support for ticket/bug management, hardware monitoring, machine room environmental monitoring, site redundancy, and global data backup and offsite recovery.

  • Developed a reputation for discovering, understanding, and gaining access to legacy or orphaned systems and services despite dynamic team structures.

  • Guided “War Room” style forensic analysis and post-mortem meetings to document and recover from outages or disruptions.

System Integrator / Storage Engineer Link to heading

Rohde-Schwarz.com (Broadcast and Media), June 2011 - April 2015 Link to heading

Broadcast and Media Division of Rohde & Schwarz America is an industry leader in high-speed digital film storage, film mastering, and faster-than-real-time broadcast transcoding. They integrate and maintain large-scale storage systems for video recording and processing for clients across North America.

  • Integrated and maintained large-scale storage systems for video recording and processing for clients across North America, including Disney, NBC-Universal, Pixar, ILM, Deluxe, the Library of Congress, and the United States Air Force.

  • Increased employee productivity by custom writing client software to automate complex and error-prone user tasks, which reduced customer burden, eased on-site travel requirements, shrunk customer outage windows, and lowered the risk of customer data loss.

  • Served as the tier one/two escalation engineer for SAN storage system issues.

  • Created systems and training materials to support multi-language customers throughout North America.

System and Network Administrator Link to heading

Film Roman / Starz Media, July 2006 - June 2011 Link to heading

Film Roman is an animation studio known for producing Emmy Award-winning shows such as The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-head, Wow Wow Wubbzy, and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. They also provided VFX for live-action films like Sex and the City, Rush Hour 3, and Speed Racer.

  • Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant, high-speed digital storage system to back The Simpsons TV and Movie animation assets, enabling near real-time data recovery of versioned animation assets.

  • Managed and deployed hundreds of render nodes and coordinated render queuing software, facilitating concurrent work between animated and live-action VFX projects.

  • Communicated complex infrastructure needs to C-level executives and executives of other studios (e.g., Fox, Universal).

  • Created a data backup and recovery procedure to ensure business continuity

Skills Link to heading

  • Programming Languages and Tools: Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Git, Vim, VSCode, Python, Regexp

  • Operating Systems: Modern Linux (Alpine, FreeBSD, RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu), Windows Desktop/Server & Clustering, MacOS Desktop/Server

  • Virtualization: LXD/Incus, KVM, QEMU, Xen, OpenStack, Docker, VMWare ESXi, Microsoft Virtual Server/Hyper-V

  • Web/Network Applications: NGINX/Apache/Eclipse web servers, HAProxy, iptables, nmap

  • Networking: Brocade/Foundry, Ubiquity, pfSense, Cisco/Linksys, PIX firewall, QLogic FiberChannel, Juniper

  • Storage: Btrfs, LVM, ZFS, TrueNAS, StorNext, TerraBlock, NetApp, EqualLogic, Nexsan, Dell FileVault, IBM MegaRAID, DotHill, DataDirect Networks

  • Hardware: Dell, HP, IBM, SuperMicro, Chenbro

Education Link to heading

  • Utah Valley State College in Orem, UT

  • Los Angeles Pierce Community College in Woodland Hills, CA

  • Microsoft Server Certified

  • Data Direct Networks - Hardware / SFA Fundamentals

  • QLogic Fibre Channel Specialist