Andy Potanin

As the DevOps lead for the Mobile Credential project, I played a crucial role in integrating cloud automation and Apple Pay to enhance campus security and operational efficiency. I automated Dockerized microservice deployments to Azure Service Fabric, significantly boosting scalability and deployment speed. By streamlining deployments with Octopus Deploy, I reduced manual interventions and minimized errors. Implementing a high-availability multi-region architecture ensured 99.9% uptime and consistent performance. I provisioned Azure resources such as Key Vault, Cosmos DB, Service Bus, and Event Hubs to enhance flexibility and security.

Additionally, I developed advanced ARM templates for efficient resource orchestration and set up comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to maintain service reliability. Collaborating with Apple, we ensured compliance with stringent security standards, earning commendation for our innovative and secure solution. This project reduced operational costs, streamlined processes, and provided students with a seamless, user-friendly experience, enabling secure, contactless access and payments using Apple Pay.

A robust PaaS for a Node.js, WordPress, and PHP application deployment that is focused on the GitHub workflow. The platform was created to be a hosting solution that puts the workflow first, making it one of the first hosting platforms that can handle the entire CI process.

This platform predates Kubernetes but is very similar in many ways. However, many things that Kubernetes does not provide, our platform handles very well, most notably a native caching and proxying layer.

The platform is a self-healing network of CoreOS machines that are moving production and staging containers around the data center with zero-downtime due to a status-aware state-of-the-art proxy, powered by a tightly coupled HAProxy, Varnish, and Node.js proxy layer.

Containers are provisioned automatically when new GitHub branches are created and retired when a branch is removed. Developers can SSH or SFTP into any running environment using their GitHub credentials.

The stack provisions CloudFront distributions for each application and handles invalidation requests automatically. Meanwhile, the data layer is handled by client-specific Percona clusters with a Memcached-based object-caching.

A San Francisco-based company that is changing the real estate scene, BoxMLS runs a highly distributed network of Node.js microservices with a rock-solid continuous integration process. Millions of records are stored in an optimized Elasticsearch cluster with tasks and jobs being distributed via RabbitMQ.

BoxMLS service monitors a number of multiple listing services (MLS) for data changes, normalizes and standardizes real estate data, and can send change notifications to subscribers even faster than MLS serverless.

As the DevOps lead for the Transact IDX project, I spearheaded the integration of cloud automation to modernize campus ID solutions. I streamlined Dockerized microservice deployments on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), enhancing both scalability and deployment speed. Leveraging Azure DevOps for our CI/CD pipelines, I effectively eliminated manual interventions and reduced errors. By designing a multi-region, high-availability architecture, I ensured 99.95% uptime and robust performance. I provisioned essential Azure resources, including Azure Active Directory for secure access, Blob Storage for scalable data management, and Azure SQL Database for reliable data handling.

To optimize resource management, I developed sophisticated ARM templates and implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, ensuring consistent service reliability. Working closely with our security and compliance teams, we adhered to strict standards, earning praise for our secure and innovative solution. This project not only cut operational costs but also simplified campus processes, offering students a seamless, secure, and contactless experience for access and transactions.

A WordPress plugin that helps WordPress sites operate more like proper "twelve-factor" applications by moving media assets to a Google Cloud Storage bucket used as a backing service, allowing for WordPress sites to be migrated and scaled horizontally without having to migrate the media files. The integration is entirely seamless, with WordPress unaware that the actual files are stored in a remote bucket.

• Wordpress.org/plugins/wp-stateless
• Github.com/wpCloud/wp-stateless

A cutting-edge brokerage based out of Durham, NC has a native-feeling React.js front-end powered by the WordPress API. The application platform runs in a distributed Docker cluster and is backed by a Percona Cluster for the data layer, augmented by Elasticsearch.

The application consumes MLS changes in real-time, analyzes each listing's data, and constantly generates unique landing pages to deliver market updates to the web faster than any competitor.