Jay Wallace

Engineering Manager
2021
Building DoorDash's Cloud Platform team. Team is responsible for self-serve for cloud primitives (AWS) and Service Lifecycle and Runtime. Our main goal is to provide a self-serve platform that improve reliability, efficiency, and engineering velocity resulting in shipping new features and services faster to unlock business value.
Staff Engineer
2019 - 2021
Still hyper-focused on kubernetes, our microservices, traffic, etc, but during this phase shifted focus on improving self-serve around everything else (mostly AWS) and providing the appropriate level of abstraction for product engineers. Helped grow compute team in process
Sr. Engineer
2018 - 2019
Deployed and managed k8s at DoorDash during a hyper-growth phase. This was everything from microservice and cluster tooling, traffic, pipelining, cluster lifecycle, monitoring, alerting, policy enforcement, service onboarding, etc.

2021

2016 - 2018

Sr. Engineer, NextGen Platforms
2017 - 2018
Member of small team that built Nike's enterprise ready Kubernetes platform. Daily responsibilities included: • Writing Golang to extend the platform itself, as well as writing custom terraform providers to support the rest of the org (i.e Secret Management solution based on Nike's open source project, Cerberus) • Built and managed CircleCI pipelines that included e2e testing utilizing ephemeral cluster before code was promoted to production. • Acted as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform subject matter expert. • Worked closely with customers/stake holders to deliver solutions that met requirements across the organization. • Manage Terraform community of practice
Sr. DevOps Engineer, DevOps Enablement Team, Go To Market
2016 - 2017
• Trained teams on all DevOps tooling • Terraform, Consul, Docker, k8s (kubernetes) subject matter expert • Maintained and Managed all CI/CD pipelines, cookbooks, recipes, roles, version control system (GHE), and alerts (sensu). • In charge of all AWS resources for GTM (managed via troposphere, cloud formation, and GoCI pipeline ) • Created and maintained Packer-Terraform-Jenkins Pipelines for deploying new infrastructure

2015 - 2016

Engineering Lead
2016 - 2016
Led team handling post-sales effort for Atlas. Acted as point of escalation. • Built all training material for on-boarding new Support Engineers • Acted as main point of escalation for high priority issues; • Subject matter expert for all things AWS, Google Cloud, and HashiCorp • Built entire Support process from the ground up; Assisted customers with implementations and general troubleshooting • Worked closely with product management to prioritize bugs and feature requests; Held routine 1 on 1s and weekly retrospectives with team.
Solutions Engineer
2015 - 2016
Led technical pre-sales effort in Portland, OR for Atlas. • Acted as the subject matter expert for the sale organization for Terraform, Nomad, Packer, Consul, Vault, Vagrant, and Serf. • Educated prospects on all product offerings through POCs and demos • Provided feedback to product through pull requests and open issues • Develop relationships with decision makers and act as main point of technical contact ensuring opportunity was won

2013 - 2015

Sr. Support Engineer
2013 - 2015
• Actively supporting Puppet Enterprise in highly heterogeneous environments for companies managing hundreds to thousands of nodes with Puppet, while supporting an extensive set of platforms. Working daily with all Linux based OS’s and some Unix, as well as with a variety of related technologies: Postgres, Apache, Phusion Passenger, ActiveMQ, MySQL, Jenkins, Foreman, Vagrant, and most all tools shipped in Linux based distributions • Teaching Puppet to customers and potential customers alike and being a DevOps evangelist, whenever the opportunity presented itself. • Writing educational material for our Learning Management System • Building better workflows and developing new hire on boarding process. • Trained team on a variety of subject matter • Acted as first contact point for escalated and high profile accounts.

2013 - 2015

Co-Founder
2013 - 2015
Location based music startup. A place to share your music and discover your city.

2012 - 2013

System Administrator
2012 - 2013
• In charge of day to day system operations, network infrastructure and architecture, and security patches. • IT liaison for local and nationwide banking infrastructures, offering daily solutions and support for customers, developers, and offsite banks alike. • Monitored traffic and ran routine network audits of infrastructure. • Built and maintained policies with regards to employee information and security. Tasked with maintaining PCI compliance. • Administered all physical and virtual servers including several different OS’s, services, and applications on a daily basis. • Administered asterisk server and all IP telephony solutions

2009 - 2011

Geological Technician
2009 - 2011
Gather all related records on a regional scale for the area (logs, historical documents, scout tickets, etc) from the geological library and/or online data. Converting any tiff image or raster log to log ASCII format (.las) via Nueralog. Called specific structural tops over a regional scale to correlate and build a structural map. Formed 3d cross sections in petrel and/or geographix looking for possible traps, fault structures, and identified potential depositional environment. Maintained a general ledger, creating spreadsheets for JIB's and WI for royalty owners

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