Rackspace Technology

Perform duties as a technical leader in the Rackspace Technology Technical Career Track (TCT). Spearhead projects to determine product and project viability for customer offerings such as Managed Cloud, Rackspace Orchestration, and DevOps support. Direct teams and business units during product creation via automation, utilizing serverless technologies, maximizing resource cost benefit, development speed, and sound product engineering. Review process and spending to automate away excessive spend and manual work to save the company over $800,000 yearly. Lead organization of savings efforts to hit deadlines and report outcomes to the executive leadership team. Serve on the Board of Directors for the TCT to align TCT goals with the business, grow the TCT, and organize TCT promotion cycles. - Leading transition strategy for my.rackspace.com. Moving portions of the 15+ year old code base and servers to more modern micro services running in a serverless environment.- Lead an effort to review all internal AWS account usage and design a standard for tagging, reporting, and governing account and resource usage.- Worked with Executives, Vice Presidents, and other leaders to organize savings within the company resulting in over $800,000 yearly.- Lead the creation of the yearly TCT promotion cycle process.- Served as consultant for Devops Support to streamline and work out pain points of the customer offering, utilizing Chef expertise.- Lead Engineer designing, creating, and templating server automation blueprints for the Rackspace- Technology Orchestration system utilizing Chef. Transitioning this knowledge to design and create the Openstack Heat DSL.- Organized and participated in Rackapace Technology’s internal conference rax.io.