About
Not committed to a single language, framework, or cloud. I’m committed to solving problems and getting shit done with the best tools for the situation and team.
The Basics
Who: Taylor Ondrey
Where: Washington, DC
Working For: Amazon Web Services
Since: July, 2020
As a: Senior Consultant - WWPS Professional Services
Doing:
- Leading multiple simultaneous customer engagements across multiple Government customers.
- Designing, building, and delivering infrastructure as code (CDK) artifacts to customers supporting:
- Data Lakes
- Database migrations
- APIs
- Data ingestion pipelines
- Streaming applications
- Contributing to multiple open source projects enabling usage in air-gapped AWS regions
- Supporting and mentoring dozens of engineers in Infrastructure as Code best practices
Certifications
- Amazon Web Services
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- Microsoft
Work History
Worked For: Lucid Perspectives (acquired by Avantus Federal)
Where: Reston, VA
When: June 2018 - July 2020
As a: Cloud Engineer
- Doing:
- Helping customers get shit done in the cloud
- Designing CI/CD pipelines for fast feedback loops
- Architecting and implementing secure cloud infrastructures
- Managing data lakes with hundreds of TB of data, ingesting 10s of TBs per daydata.
Worked For: SoundExchange
Where: Washington, DC
When: May 2017 - June 2018
As a: Senior Systems Engineer
- Doing:
- Supporting SoundExchange’s Royalty Processing Platform.
- Build and maintain Jenkins pipelines enabling crazy fast feedback loops for engineering teams.
- Provision and manage AWS infrastructure with hundreds of EC2 and RDS instances, and hundreds of TB of data.
Worked For: Z Inc.
Where: Washington, DC
When: April 2016 - May 2017
As a: Senior Full Stack Engineer and DevOps Engineer at the Energy Information Administration
- Doing:
- Senior developer responsible for setting the technical standards for a team of 12 developers and designers.
- Lead change in implementing test driven development (TDD), package management, code documentation, DevOps and Continuous Integration.
- Manage cluster of Virtual Machines for development (Windows & Linux) using Chef, supporting a variety of system needs across multiple projects.
- Create and maintain documentation for development team in Confluence.
- Develop and maintain web applications for eia.gov.
Worked For: Quotient Inc.
Where: Suitland, MD
When: May 2015 - April 2016
As a: MySQL DBA & Web Developer
- Doing:
- Developed, tuned, and administered 15 dev, test, and production MySQL database servers supporting Census.gov.
- Developed and maintained web applications for Census.gov receiving millions of daily users.
- Architected and developed data layer and back end for the Indicator Release Improvement Program (IRIP) making economic indicator data instantly and highly available to thousands of concurrent public users.
Worked For: M.S. Hall & Associates
Where: Syracuse, NY
When: March 2012 - May 2015
As a: Healthcare Financial Data Analyst
- Doing:
- Administered MySQL databases for 18 hospital clients in New York and Delaware in a linux environment (LAMP stack).
- Recovered over $8.2 million of additional reimbursement for clients through Medicare Bad Debts, Medicare DSH, and HCRA surcharge review.
- Created internal applications using PHP, MySQL, and Python for data processing and automation.
- Designed automated systems for handling large volumes of EDI transaction sets (835, 270, etc).
- Saved clients thousands working hours per year through data automation.