Drew Ayling
DevOps Connoisseur, Python Enthusiast, System Architect
About
Experienced Software Engineer with a proven track record in the information technology and services sector. Proficient in DevOps, Software Architecture, Automated Software Testing, Software Delivery, and Compliance Testing. Committed to product-focused delivery and facilitating effective communication between development, quality assurance, release management, and support teams within enterprise agile environments. I have a preference for the dynamic nature of startups and am experienced in macOS/Linux environments, utilizing WSL when necessary. As a Python Developer, I have also worked with C++, Perl, and Go, and I am an active user of JavaScript and TypeScript for user interface and continuous integration applications. I advocate for DevOps as a strategy beneficial to both enterprises and developers, aligning my efforts with the goal of delivering value to customers, whether they are internal stakeholders or external clients. I take great satisfaction in dedicating my efforts to assist others.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Leading the Vehical Architectural Tools team to develop internal solutions for vehicle ECU and Software architecture
Highlights
- Replaced PREEVision by Vector with an internal tool for a coat savings of over $1 million per year
- Architected, developed and deployed an ECU topology visualization tool to allow users instant automated diagrams of network topology saving weeks of manual data input
- Developed a documentation hub with two other developers to create a user friendly interface to browse vehicle architecture interfaces
- Mentored and coached junior engineers to instill and promote software development best practices, agile planning, and software architecture
- Created bespoke CI solutions using github actions, in use by hundreds of internal workflows daily
Staff Software Engineer
Leading automation architecture team for the chronic care management group. Supporting test reporting, CI integrations, testing libraries, development pipelines and more.
Highlights
- Lead 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.
- Lead 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. Contributed 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 Engineer
Working with customers and partners in our open-source community to produce and maintain CircleCI ecosystem assets.
Highlights
- 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.
NetApp - SolidFire
June 2019 – June 2020
Sr. Software Engineer
DevOps Architect for the NetApp/SoldFire AFA and HCI product. Automation Architect.
Highlights
- 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.
NetApp - SolidFire
July 2015 – June 2019
Software Engineer
Started at SolidFire pre-acquisition, seeing the changes of small start-up to large enterprise from a test automation engineer's pespective
Highlights
- 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 Engineer
Continued standards developement and began taking leadership oppurtunities within the project space.
Highlights
- 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
Engineer
First position post graduation. Worked to test and integrate boost/libqt C++ code base and real systems on vehicles.
Highlights
- 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.
Intern
High voltage and GaN substrate applied research
Volunteer
Volunteer
Event volunteer and tech support volunteer
Volunteer Judge
Volunteered at multiple science fairs judging Math, Engineering, and Computer Science projects.
Contact
Denver Metro Area, Colorado
Education
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2012
Texas Tech University
Bachelor
Electrical Engineering
Courses- Mathematics - Minor
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
Interests
Hiking
Baking
Pizza
My Dogs