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Drew Ayling

Drew Ayling

DevOps Connoisseur, Python Enthusiast, System Architect

Denver Metro Area, Colorado
English

Background


About

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in DevOps, Software Architecture, Automated Software Testing, Software Delivery, and Compliance Testing. Core values in product focused delivery and bridging communication gaps between development, quality, release, and support in Enterprise agile environments. Likes the feel of startups. macOS/Linux guy that runs WSL if I must. Python Developer that used to dabble in C++, Perl, and JS. DevOps is for the enterprise and for the developer. Believer in delivering value to customers, whether internal or external. I love spending my days helping people.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Staff Software EngineerFord Motor Company

    Apr, 2023 - Present

    Replace this tiny tool called PREEVision

  • Staff Software EngineerTeladoc Health

    Mar, 2021 - Apr, 20232 years 1 month

    Leading automation architecture team for the chronic care management group. Supporting test reporting, CI integrations, testing libraries, development pipelines and more.

    • Leading the automation architecture team to re-architect existing test frameworks to align newly acquired product’s delivery with the larger Teladoc org to reduce automation duplication and scale product delivery.

    • Leading an automation guild to present vision, intent, best practices, and architectural runway for testing and automation.

    • Created automated tooling to connect Teladoc’s automated test cases with TestRail’s test case management software to measure requirements and functional coverage. Contributing to open source projects to support this effort.

    • Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.

    • Creating and maintaining test automation libraries for Livongo (Chronic Care Management) (acquired by Teladoc in 2020) products including web, mobile, backend, and ETL.

  • Community & Partner EngineerCircleCI

    Jun, 2020 - Mar, 20219 months

    Working with customers and partners in our open-source community to produce and maintain CircleCI ecosystem assets.

    • Launched the CircleCI Developer Hub, a K8s microsite for CircleCI assets (Docker images and CI integrations), as a full-stack developer in React and Go.

    • Created and maintained CI libraries for dozens of languages and frameworks, e.g. Ruby, GKE, Python, Terraform, used by thousands of runs daily.

    • Supported open source community Docker images spanning various languages and frameworks, e.g. Python, Ruby, Android, Selenium, for use on CircleCI, each being used in almost 100,000 runs a week.

    • Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.

    • Primary lead on restructuring CircleCI sample apps and configuration files to improve CircleCI onboarding experience.

  • Sr. Software EngineerNetApp - SolidFire

    Jun, 2019 - Jun, 202011 months

    DevOps Architect for the NetApp/SoldFire AFA and HCI product. Automation Architect.

    • Architected transition of 1000+ test cases from legacy framework to new automated CI driven testing framework.

    • Architected new continuous integration and delivery process to parallelize system value delivery, remove circular dependencies and decreased build and test time by a factor of 4.

    • Architected end to end container and Kubernetes based serverless testing solution for disparate disconnected system tests that removed hundreds of manual hours for each release.

    • Coached other system architects in scaled agile best practices to enable predictable planning by reducing lead time in exploration phase by 75%.

    • Architected organizational value stream alignment with other system architects and SAFe practitioners to restructure the teams around value in order to increase delivery to the customer by a factor of 6.

  • Software EngineerNetApp - SolidFire

    Jul, 2015 - Jun, 20193 years 11 months

    Started at SolidFire pre-acquisition, seeing the changes of small start-up to large enterprise from a test automation engineer's pespective

    • Led software test team in developing complex automated tests and test cases for core SolidFire product features in python and pytest

    • Scrum master, architect and product owner for re-architecture of internal legacy automation python code base

    • Automated systems administration tasks such as system monitoring, report generation, code deployment, package management, and server maintenance

    • Designed and developed REST API SDK for external test case management software for use across multiple teams.

  • Research EngineerSouthwest Research Institute

    Sep, 2014 - Jul, 201510 months

    Continued standards developement and began taking leadership oppurtunities within the project space.

    • Assisted in standards development for a SOAP / UDP-multicast / UDP-syslog based communications architecture for US Army ground combat vehicles known as VICTORY

    • Software team lead for the Army’s Industry Network Integration Evaluation Demonstration to provide VICTORY Capabilities in an operational environment

    • Project Manager for a $50k internal research project to develop cost effective, micro embedded VICTORY adapters

  • EngineerSouthwest Research Institute

    Jan, 2012 - Sep, 20142 years 8 months

    First position post graduation. Worked to test and integrate boost/libqt C++ code base and real systems on vehicles.

    • Led software validation experiments developing software components to demonstrate VICTORY Specifications.

    • Assisted in system integration for US Army field demo of situation awareness vehicle

    • Assistant project manager and engineer for a combat vehicle high performance video bus architecture.

  • InternXFAB

    Jan, 2012 - Jun, 20125 months

    High voltage and GaN substrate applied research

Skills

Skills

  • Development

    Python

    Typescript / React

    Go

    Bash

    Linux / OSX

    Docker / Kubernetes

    Saltstack / Ansible / Terraform

    Jenkins / CircleCI / Github Actions

  • Competencies

    DevOps

    Value Stream

    Process Automation

    Web Services

    Open Standards

    Software Testing

    Scaled Agile / SAFe

    System Architecture

    Storage Appliances

    Embedded Systems

    Software Integration

    Value Streams

Education

Education

  • Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, Texas Tech University

    - May, 2012

    Magna Cum Laude

    Mathematics - Minor

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Volunteer, Historic Boulder

    Nov, 2019 - Present

    Event volunteer and tech support volunteer

  • Volunteer Judge, Alamo Regional Science Fair

    Jun, 2013 - Feb, 2014

    Volunteered at multiple science fairs judging Math, Engineering, and Computer Science projects.

Interests

Interests

  • Hiking

  • Baking

  • Pizza

  • My Dogs

References

References

  • Available upon request