Work Experience

July 2020 — Present: Software Engineer T-Mobile US Frisco, TX Employee

Configured and deployed system monitoring services and developed internal API based tools and services to assist in the management and provisioning of database instances system monitoring services and developed internal API based tools and services

• Role: Tech Lead Software and Systems Engineer
• Actions:
  • Engaged in all aspects of the development life cycle from design to coding, testing and deployment, to production support
  • Advocated for industry accepted security practices and standards while contributing in agile planning and design sessions
  • Performed thorough design reviews and provided feedback for improvement
  • With minimal supervision, developed tools and provided design insights that met strict security guidelines
  • Mentored and helped new team members with technologies, and encouraged good development practices such as TDD
  • Reached out to internal HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, network storage, web application firewall, and on premises K8s teams, to on board and integrate with their services
  • Developed Python and Java applications to automate database inventory and provisioning
  • Evaluated and recommended technologies that were incorporated into the product and development stacks such as Prometheus, on premises K8s, Helm, Python Django, Java Spring Boot
• Impacts:
  • Integrated with CyberArk and Hashicorp Vault to securely pull service account credentials
  • Implemented GItLab CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of applications from development to production
  • Using K8s, Python DJango, and Ansible, automated the provisioning of database instances
  • Using K8s, Helm, and the Prometheus Operator, deployed Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana for the monitoring of 1000+ database instances
• Technologies used: Prometheus, K8s, Helm, Python, Django, MySQL, GitLab, HashiCorp Vault, Java, Puppet, PowerShell

June 2019 — May 2020: Senior Software Engineer, USAA through Apex Systems San Antonio, TX Contract.

Contributed to the development of internal API based tools and services

• Role: Senior Software Engineer
• Actions:
  • Contributed in agile planning and design sessions
    Performed thorough design reviews and provided feedback for improvement
  • Designed API wrappers to interact with VISA’s RTSI PPCS service
    Communicated directly with external vendors such as Google and VISA to integrate with their services via rest APIs
  • Designed a SQL database and built a control panel for a 200 system RPA project
  • Implemented a temporary system to handle Government Shutdown payment extension requests
  • Designed, implemented and tested a distributed Python system to extract text and process text elements from over one million credit card and Home Equity Line of Credit PDF statements
• Impacts:
  • Integrated with CyberArk to securely pull service account credentials
  • Saved USAA over 3 million USD by developing a Python system to extract data from millions of Credit Card and HELOC statements
  • With minimal supervision, developed tools and provided design insights that met strict security guidelines
  • Worked on integrating the VISA Online RTSI API directly into USAA’s network
  • Mentored team members on how to use TDD, Git, Python and SQL
• Technologies used: Google Cloud, Visa API, Box API, Java, CSharp / .Net, Python, SQL Server, Oracle DB, GitLab, PowerShell, Docker, UML

• Role: DevOps Full Stack Software Engineer
• Actions:
  • Contributed to the development of the monitoring component of the Cloud Application Manager – Managed Services Anywhere project
    
  • Engaged in all aspects of the development life cycle from design to coding, testing and deployment, to production support
  • Recommended practices to protect API tokens and prevent accidental modification of production services
  • Contributed in agile planning and design sessions
  • Performed thorough code reviews and provided feedback for improvement
  • Evaluated and recommended technologies that were incorporated into the product and development stacks
  • Mentored and helped new team members
• Impact: Developed a Sensu based cloud monitoring appliance for deployment in a customer’s private network
• Technologies used: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, PostgresSQL, OpenResty, Jenkins, CentOS,
  Ubuntu, AWS, GitHub, Ruby, and Python

• Role: Student IT employee
• Actions:
  • Responsible for effective and rapid resolution of Help Desk Tickets
  • Troubleshot/resolved software and hardware related tracked concerns within established time-frames
  • Worked with minimal to no supervision in resolution of open ticket action items
• Impact: Faculty members provided accolades to senior supervisory personnel regarding my demonstrated expertise and
  professionalism
• Faculty Accolade: jnh.bz/faculty_acclamation.png

• Note: One of ten selected from a national pool of applicants
• Role: Research Assistant and Software Developer
• Actions:
  • Researched, developed and implemented ways to securely store and process private information on public cloud platforms
  • Devised a ranking system to prioritize Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) based on certifications and other implemented security features
  • Trained group members how to use Git
• Impact: Provided enhanced understanding of various cloud computing platforms, the three service models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS), and approaches to utilizing public cloud platforms in a secure manner
• Presentation: jnh.bz/mst_reu_ppt.pdf
• Poster: jnh.bz/mst_reu_poster.pdf

Personal Projects

• Returns a nested list of followers for a specified user in JSON
• Returns a nested list of a users repositories and stargazers for each repository in JSON
• Packaged in an easy to build and deploy Docker container
• Reads in a GitHub API token as an environment variable
• Deployed the container on a publicly accessible cloud server
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Golang-API-Github
• Demo: docker.hauptj.com:8880/followers/hauptj

• Builds custom cover letters using a LaTeX template
• Utilizes Travis CI and for integration testing
• Uploads CV to a public Google Cloud Storage bucket
• Utilizes SMTP to send cover letters and resumes via Email
• Wrote Dockerfile and Docker Compose file to deploy the external API
• Logs applications to an external MongoDB database as well as a local CSV file
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Golang-Cover

• IPv6 only behind CloudFlare
• Redis caching
• Utilized Travis CI and Docker for integration testing of Ansible Roles
• Incorporated Ansible Vault to protect sensitive variables
• Developed a Vagrantfile that utilized custom build Vagrant box for local testing and debugging
• Wrote bash scripts to automate repetitive tasks
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/WordPress-CloudFlare-Terraform

• Included automatic provisioning with Ansible
• Published to Vagrant Cloud
• Wrote a PowerShell script to automate build and packaging processes
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Vagrant-CentOS-7-HyperV-Gen-2

• Utilized Travis CI for integration testing
• Published on Docker Hub
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Ansible-Docker

• Utilized Travis CI for integration testing
• Wrote a separate script to run integration tests and print a report
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Value-Cleaner

• Configured a DigitalOcean cloud server with the LEMP stack
• Configured DNS records
• Originally published on Google Code
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/ip-tools
• Demo: ip-tools.hauptj.com

Academic Projects

• Role: Linux Expert
• Actions:
  • Wrote a Vagrantfile and an Ansible Playbook to provision a virtual development environment
  • Wrote Dockerfiles to provision Ubuntu Linux containers for Java, Python and C++ Socket programming
  • Wrote Travis CI test cases for CI testing
  • Wrote bash and PowerShell scripts to install Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ansible
• Impact: Helped create a fully functional end product that met all of the client’s expectations
• Repository: github.com/SIUE-DevOps

• Utilized TCP, UDP, logging, authentication and external HTTP API calls via CURL
• Incorporated SMTP and HTTP status codes and request commands
• Created a PHP based HTTP API to assist with encoding and decoding passwords
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/UDT-Mail-Server

• Role: Linux Server Expert and Web Developer
• Actions:
  • Designed an advanced database using crime data from Los Angeles, California
  • Set up a MariaDB database on a CentOS 7 cloud server
  • Took frequent database backups
  • Solved configuration problems that arose with CentOS 7, MariaDB, PHP and Nginx
  • Created a simple web interface that utilized advanced queries
  • Assisted a group member resolve technical problems that made impeded him from accomplishing tasks
• Impact: Helped create a fully functional end product that met all graduate level specifications
• Repository: github.com/HauptJ/SIUE-CS-434-Advanced-Databases-Fall-2016

• Roles: Git Expert, Linux Server Expert, and Web Developer
• Actions:
  • Recommended web services such as Github and Office 365 to assist with collaboration
  • Set up an Infinoted server hosted on an AWS cloud server to enable pair programming
  • Created a PHP web application hosted on an OVH cloud server
  • Thoroughly documented design and planning after performing requirement analysis
  • Performed usability testing
  • Created Flow, Cultural, Sequence, Artifact, Physical, and Affinity Diagram work models
  • Created Low and High Fidelity prototypes
  • Presented the project to the class at the end of the semester
  • Helped a group member resolve technical problems that made impeded him from accomplishing tasks
• Presentation: jnh.bz/hci_proj_ppt.pdf

• Roles: Git Expert, Linux Server Expert
• Actions:
  • Recommended web services such as Office 365 to assist with collaboration
  • Thoroughly documented design and planning after performing requirement analysis
  • Created design diagrams such as use cases, UML, DCD, Sequence, and ER
  • Presented the project to the class at the end of the semester
• Presentation: jnh.bz/swe_proj_ppt.pdf

• Role: Research Assistant, Linux Expert, and Developer
• Actions:
  • Translated a Java library to C
  • Encouraged group to use good code documentation practices
  • Set up an Infinoted server hosted on a DigitalOcean cloud server to enable pair programming
• Impact: Helped create a functional product that met the professor’s expectations

Education and Extracurricular Activities

• Co-founder – SIUE Distributed Computing Club
• Computer Association of SIUE (CAOS)
• HS, CyberPatriot cybersecurity program