Justin Merrill, MBA
Principal Platform Engineer
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2003/10/02
Industry: Computer & IT
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Professional Background
Principle Platform Engineer / DevSecOps
December 2022 – February 2023
Contract for building out portions of new and updated "highly secure platform for platforms" with IaC and GitOps techniques used in DevSecOps
Senior Platform Manager / DevSecOps / SRE
May 2021 – December 2022
Startup company with innovative 5G API offerings for niche use cases that require extremely high throughput and high-frequency data sampling
Database Engineer / Instructor
October 2020 – May 2021
Contract to teach government employees various types of DevSecOps-related content for MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and other similar data stores.
Software Engineering Manager / DevOps / SRE
August 2018 – May 2019
Startup opportunity with an innovative Blockchain component, leading a global team on remote and onsite professionals
DevOps Specialist / Platform Manager
February 2018 – August 2018
Contract with a market-leading Digital Music Distribution client
Full Stack Software Engineer
February 2014 – March 2016
“True Full Stack Development” for the oldest telecommunications company in the world. The position has intense focus on the development of tools that are the AT&T International Corporate Standard for usages such as trouble ticketing systems (Unified Desktop), workflow processes for customer service representatives (SASHA & TaskMaster) & the automation of common resolution steps to correct outages (GOLIATH/ETHAN & TQI), service interruptions, & general troubles in the vast & ever expanding AT&T landline & wireless network for voice & data.

Position requires heavy use of Git Version Control for managing 20 repositories with a team of 20 developers, 4 System Engineers, 2 Database Administrators, 3 Project Managers, & collaboration with 4 other development departments for interaction with SOAP / REST APIs. Extensive QA & bug tracking for VERY poorly written SOAP Web Services delivered by IBM & continuous development of completely custom RESTful API calls for use with Mojolicious (Perl) & Ember.js frameworks.

Blended code base with mostly Perl & PHP, with some intensive refactor required from antiquated platforms (such as older IBM products like Java iLog). Support, development & enhancements to AJAX (jQuery) with Perl & PHP on a blended back-end with mostly MySQL, & significant MS SQL, DB2, Sybase & Oracle data sources.

Networking, SysAdmin & DevOps duties using multiple Development environments, Staging/UAT/Test Servers & load-balanced Production servers for the various applications. Command line from PowerShell, PuTTy, Git Bash & Cygwin for using NPM + Bower & hypnotoad (Ember.js), remote Linux (Red Hat) servers for all tiers of code release. CLI for Perl Debugger is essential for checking formats & deciphering poorly documented business logic & functionality to get the job done right.

The experience gain of working for #11 of the Fortune 500 is extraordinary for my career development &technical confidence as a Software Engineer & Application Developer.
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Education
St. Petersburg College
Computer Science, Construction, Fine Arts, Sustainability
2003 – Present
- Non-Degree Seeking Student
- Programming Courses
- Business Courses
- Sustainabile Energy Courses
- Cloud Platform & Infrasctructure Courses
University of Phoenix
Masters Degree
Business Administration
2007 – 2010
International Academy of Design and Technology-Tampa
Web Development, Graphic Design
2002 – 2002
- Non-Degree Seeking Student
- Web Development Courses
- Graphic Design Courses
- Fine Arts Courses
ITT Technical Institute
Bachelor of Science
Electronics Engineering / Technology
1999 – 2002
EdX.org
Computer Science
2014
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Current: Level 6
Justin needs 22,004 points to level up.
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