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Jay Crotts
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GitHub: [github.com/jcrotts][]

Introduction
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Engineer with 6 years of experience working in agile development teams. Effective at designing and implementing cloud native infrastructure with a wide variety of tools. Skilled at identifying key areas for process automation. Experienced in automating legacy systems, and integrating them into modern applications.

Skills
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Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi  
Languages: Python, C#  
Frameworks: Django, Flask, Svelte  
Databases: Sqlite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB  
Cloud: AWS, vCenter  
Containers: Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes  
Networking: NSXT, CCNA (Expired: 2019)  
Security: SOC2, Nessus

Experience
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Systems Engineer, [VMware][] - March 2021 - present

-   Automated security credential lifecycle across team's global backend services, eliminating 250 hours 
    in manual processes 
-   Designed Just-in-time disaster recovery service with terraform for 30 sites, protecting $15M in
    company revenue
-   Built bootstrap services to dynamically import terraform templates to support stateless workloads
-   Architected several command line automation tools to support legacy systems and enhance team's
    quality of life

Software Engineer, [Cisco Systems][] - 2017 - 2021 

-   Engineered a python integration service to track application deployment and infrastructure utilization
-   Built an application that manages Cisco's smart power distribution units (PDUS)
    that are globally deployed across Cisco's Datacenters
-   Transformed the Cisco IT network hardware testing process with software automation, reducing
    qualification time by 80%
-   Migrated legacy app deployment processes to modern devops pipelines, unifying software development
    lifecycle
-   Conducted software engineering interviews and fostered new hire skillsets with biweekly code reviews

Technical Intern, [Cisco Systems][] - 2015 - Fall 2016

-   Deployed datacenter infrastructure management solution (DCIM) for a 250 cabinet datacenter
-   Wrote network configuration and audit scripts using Ansible

Technical Intern, [Neuralog Inc][] - Summer 2014 - Fall 2014

-   Tested infrared and humidity sensors using electronics testbench
-   Created part drawings using autocad

Education
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M.S. in Computer Science, [Georgia Institute of Technology][] GPA: 3.82, (Spring, 2019)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude, [Texas A&M University][] GPA: 3.52, (Fall 2016)

Open Source Projects
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[Click][]

- A maintainer of Click, a Python library for creating command line applications

[Netmiko][]

- Added the save_config method to Netmiko, a Python ssh library


[github.com/jcrotts]: https://github.com/jcrotts
[Cisco Systems]: https://www.cisco.com/
[Neuralog Inc]: https://www.neuralog.com/g
[github.com/jcrotts]: https://github.com/jcrotts
[Georgia Institute of Technology]: https://www.gatech.edu//
[Texas A&M University]: https://www.tamu.edu//
[Click]: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/e
[Netmiko]: https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko
[VMware]: https://www.vmware.com/ 