Zachery Thomas

Profile

I'm a Raleigh N.C. DevOps Engineer / Software Developer. I love working with Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS and a lot of other cloud tech! I'm also into metrics and log visualization using Kibana and Grafana.

Experience

Cisco Systems

Raleigh, NC

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2020 - Present

  • Managed CI/CD Pipeline (GoCD) for Webex Share, Room Phone and Desk Hub. 24/7 Available for commits, used by 100+ developers in NC, CA, TX and Shanghai
  • Led move from Rancher 1.0 to OpenShift (Managed Kubernetes cluster) for pipeline and developer Microservices within 2 months. Moved 29 Microservices in total while ensuring services functioned as intended, meet security requirements for new cluster and were able to be automatically deployed/updated with CI/CD
  • Added ELK Stack for Metrics, Log Aggregation and Alerting from CI/CD pipeline and microservices
  • Managed and modernized Ansible playbooks which allowed for uniform configuration and updates for our 20 build machines across Raleigh and China
  • Mentor to two New Hires and Intern. Worked closely to determine tasks and guide learning
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes (Openshift)
  • CI/CD
  • GoCD
  • ELK
  • InfluxDB
  • Grafana

Software Engineer

Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Prototyped and developed log and metric aggregation service for monitoring applications and servers using ElasticSearch for event storage and ElastAlert for alerting to PagerDuty
  • Developed CI/CD pipeline with BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible and Docker to quickly build, test and deploy code changes to remote servers
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • ELK

Softare Engineering Summer Intern

May 2016 - Aug 2018

  • Worked with interns to create internal site that tracks CI deployment time using AWS services
  • Used Jenkins and Gerrit REST APIs to update JIRAs upon completion of Jenkins jobs
  • Developed tools for automating Kibana setup and log file migration between Docker Containers
  • Docker
  • AWS Lambda
  • S3
  • ElasticsearchService

LGS Innovations

Floram Park, NJ

Cyber Security Research Intern

May - Aug 2015

  • Researched feasibility of fingerprinting IoT network data from encrypted traffic using Python based, open-source tool called Pacumen
  • Used Python library, Scapy, and Wireshark to examine and modify information in packet capture files for anti-fingerprinting
  • Python
  • Networking

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

Pasadena, CA

Radar Science Summer Intern

May - Aug 2014

  • Analyzed simulated SAPHIR RADAR data using MatLab to determine rainfall rate within cloud formations
  • Developed classifier for rainy sky using Principal Component Analysis
  • MatLab
  • Data Visualization

Leadership and Awards

On Tech Pillar for RTP Early Talent Employee Resource Group

Aug 2020

  • Collected data about Resource Group given members's event attendence data and LDAP
  • Constructed visualizations with Metabase to display metrics about demographics of New Hires (common Organizations/Job Titles, Year they joined Cisco, What State they live in, etc.)

    • GEM Fellowship

    Jun 2016

  • I received this fellowship through the National GEM Consortium. This fellowship covered tuition, fees and housing for the duration of my Master's program at North Carolina State University.

    • Dowdy Scholarship

    Apr 2012

  • This scholarship covered tuition, fees and housing during my stay at A&T State University. To keep the scholarship I had to maintain over a 3.30 cumulative GPA.
    • photo of me

    Skills

      • Programming
      • Python
      • HTML
      • Javascript
      • Bash
        Tooling
      • Kubernetes
      • Docker
      • Ansible
      • Jenkins
      • GoCD
      • AWS
        Metrics / Log Visualization
      • ELK Stack
      • InfluxDB
      • Grafana

    Education

    Masters of Computer Science

    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh NC
    May 2018
    Major GPA = 3.70

    BS in Computer Science

    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
    Greensboro NC
    May 2016
    Major GPA = 3.94

    Interests

    • Smash Bros
    • Watch Collecting
    • Film Photography
    • Fitness
    • Volleyball
    • Soccer