Jason Riedel

Co-Founder & CTO at Aspireship - Career Acceleration For The Modern Workforce.

Started and managed the elite Public Cloud Engineering team covering all things GCP, Azure and AWS.

I am an architect, developer, manager, mentor, and leader for teams of engineers that collectively make up the world class Cloud Platform and Engineering team for Symantec Enterprise. We design, build and run AWS & Openstack clouds and in house developed platform services for enterprise security products with a security first mindset.

Projects/Achievements

• Successfully architected & implemented our AWS architecture and married it to our private Openstack cloud to create a cohesive hybrid cloud.
• Lead architect and developer of our Cloud Intelligence Service (CIS a CMDB) to provide data driven insight and enable automation, provisioning, environment consistency, security, audit through change history and environment optimization and efficiency. (Languages used: Go & Python)
• Lead architect for the Symantec Enterprise products Resiliency team, aimed at increasing resiliency of all SaaS products across our portfolio.
• Lead architect for Event Services part of our Common Cloud platform used by Symantec Enterprise Security products for foundational services such as request routing, event processing / rules engine, identity, inventory, licensing, provisioning and more.
• Additionally, I oversee the architecture of critical cloud platform services such as DNS, identity services (LDAP/AD), show back billing (Cloud Health), cloud hygiene products such as Cloud Custodian, Janitor Monkey, and Security Monkey. As well as logging & metrics services using ELK + Influx & Grafana, our container platform Docker, Openshift & Kubernetes, image management and Big Data services (Kafka/Storm/Hadoop).

• AWS, Openstack, OpenContrail, Calico, CEPH
• Puppet, Ansible, Rundeck, Scalr, Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift
• ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), Kafka, Storm, InfluxDB, Grafana, Hadoop, MongoDB
• Midpoint, Spinnaker, Janitor Monkey, Cloud Custodian, Cloud Health, Security Monkey and more.

Lead Operations Architect for the following efforts:

• The Metro Datacenter program. As part of that I developed & implemented highly available infrastructure, datacenter, and application deployment patterns to scale our site by designing patterns to take advantage of stateful and stateless application characteristics.
• A small elite team that designed & implemented Global Traffic Management capabilities for traffic routing between Availability Zones on failure.
• The PayPal production DR (Disaster Recovery) program. I created the architecture & implementation plans for new infrastructure, application deployment patterns and datacenter designs.
• Replatforming. Which was an initiative to re-write the production PayPal software servicing payments to enable high availability and scalability. To do this we implemented an in-memory NoSQL datastores, Journaling databases, and read only replicas.
• A home grown NoSQL in memory only state-machine that provided fast, consistent data with high availability at incredible scale.
• A home grown layer 7 router / proxy that replaced the sites front end routing and provided additional security & availability through automated retry of failed requests.
• The entire PayPal Checkout vertical including things like ship 2 funds
• Point of Sale. Handled all aspects of operational deployment and architecture for the PayPal POS platform. Currently deployed & in use at Home Depot, Radio Shack, Baby's R Us and other retailers.
• Capacity/Scalability efforts to reach X PPS (Payments Per Second) almost ever year)
• Caching for the Risk vertical using Terracotta
• Re-pooling an effort to re-allocate production resources for capacity, performance, and availability
• Message bus architecture based on Apache MQueue
• Provided Root Cause Analysis, drove restoration & remediation plans for significant site outages.

• Built tools in mainly Python to manage the PayPal site fleet including, but not limited to the management of our bare-metal, hypervisors, virtual machines, load balancers, storage, networking, and databases.
• Wrote code to publish data into our configuration management service/system (CMDB) to enable various audit, remediation, and automation of our fleet.
• Wrote automation for generating firewall rules.

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