Resume

Tue, Dec 20, 2022

Michael Tracey

CAREER SUMMARY

Director of Cloud Engineering with over 15 years experience in various levels of project and company leadership. Always looking for opportunities to explore and learn and help others do the same. Eager to bring my broad base of knowledge and critical thinking skills to each new project.

Asheville, NC

EXPERIENCE

Pluralsight, Draper UT (remote)

—  Director of Cloud Engineering                                    JANUARY 2022 - PRESENT

Collaborating cross-platform and growing multiple teams in Cloud Engineering and Data Operations.  Leading planning, execution, and strategy to achieve goals and spur creative growth within teams and the company as a whole.  Supervising abidance with multiple audit compliance frameworks, in partnership with security.  Procurement, data-centered cost optimization, and budgeting of cloud spend. Responsible for maintaining product SLAs and managing engineers in multiple time zones.

— Senior Cloud Engineer                                         AUGUST 2019 - DECEMBER 2021

Maintained and extended cloud infrastructure for a SaaS learning platform in AWS and GCP.  Configuring and maintaining  shared services, including  Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Cassandra.  Enabled infrastructure agility utilizing Terraform to automate infrastructure as code. Provided cloud remediation and governance.

Biblio, INC, Asheville NC

— Director of Engineering                                          JANUARY 2013 - AUGUST 2019

Supervised engineers’ roadmap, workflow, and budget for a high volume e-commerce platform with over 120 million products. Responsible for System Architecture, security, maintenance of servers and services, and  optimized  custom search capabilities.

Ponderwell, Asheville NC

— Founding Partner - Tech Lead                                   JULY 2006 - JANUARY 2013

Senior direction and day to day management of a company specializing in bespoke business software, including royalty management software for record labels, e-commerce sites, and non-profits.  Managed cloud server resources for multiple clients.

Sonopress, A Bertelsmann Company, Weaverville NC

 — Senior Unix/Network Administrator                        AUGUST 2003 - JULY 2006

Administered Unix/Linux servers, LAN/WAN network, routers, Checkpoint firewalls, and corporate VPN’s for all US offices and manufacturing facilities. Managed developer staff.  Managed multiple data centers.

Asheville Citizen Times, A Gannett Newspaper, Asheville NC

 — Online Programmer / IT Administrator                   AUGUST 2003 - JULY 2006

Provisioned, installed and maintained  IT server infrastructure for regional newspaper. Developing methods for content publishing from multiple data sources such as the AP wire, Oracle databases, and 3rd party content publishing engines.

MAIN, Mountain Area Information Network, Asheville NC

 — Linux Administrator                                            January  1997 - December 2000

System and Network  administration for early non-profit dial-up ISP, with responsibilities for servers, and network service distributed over a 12 county region.

SKILLS

  • Management:  Highly-rated leadership; extensive foundational understanding; excels in balancing company vision, human needs, and budgetary constraints

  • Cloud:  AWS, Azure, and GCP

  • System Admin: Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Networking, Security frameworks

  • Datastores: Mysql, Cassandra, Memcached, Redis, PostgreSQL, RDS, SolrCloud, Elasticsearch, Apache Lucene

Languages: GoLang, Python, Java, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Bash scripting