Duane K.

Brought into startup and enterprise environments to stabilize production systems, reduce technical risk, modernize legacy platforms, and implement scalable CI/CD and security practices. Engagements are typically high-impact, time-scoped interventions focused on restoring reliability, performance, and operational confidence. Core focus areas: - Production infrastructure stabilization - Legacy system modernization - CI/CD architecture and automation - Security hardening and compliance-aware engineering - Cloud architecture across AWS and Azure - Cross-functional technical leadership under ambiguity Representative impact: - Reduced vulnerability surface by up to 90% in compliance-sensitive systems - Increased distributed data processing efficiency by 85% - Raised automated test coverage from 0% to 85% - Implemented production-grade CI/CD enabling repeatable, safe releases

Led end-to-end pipeline modernization and production stabilization efforts for a complex Chromium-based platform in a fully distributed environment. Key impact: - Reviewed and refactored C++ build systems to enable CI/CD for a highly complex Chromium build process - Implemented curated continuous delivery across win-x64, win-arm64, and macOS - Hardened release infrastructure to support automatic browser updates - Partnered with leadership to align technical priorities with business objectives - Initiated security posture review and remediation planning for release infrastructure - Shipped new browser features.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. Maintained and Managed software development, system upgrades, and DevOps across Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows environments. Reduced costs by minimizing Mac usage. Key Responsibilities: - Software Engineering Development and Software Engineering Management - Handled unsupported codebase in GoLang, C#, T-SQL, Ruby, Python, PostgresDB, and C (for gems/modules). - Provided guidance on new test automation efforts for millions of lines of code that lacked tests. - Lead other Developer in daily progression of tasks to get systems upgraded to maintain business continuity when old versions were out of support or no longer exist. - System Upgrades: Led upgrades from Ruby on Rails 3 (Intel Mac) to Rails 7 (M2 hardware). - DevOps: Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure for .NET and Ruby projects. - Sales/Support: Managed sales/support teams in addition to engineering duties. Achievements: - Standardized systems, reducing costs. - Improved code quality with tests. - Ensured business continuity through upgrades/fixes. - Increased development efficiency with CI/CD pipelines. - Provided support to sales/support teams, confirming preference for technical roles. Metrics: - Reduce costs of primary website hosting by 100% by moving it to local hosting that was already being paid for by the company.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. • Provide engineering leadership to support all possible elements of the engineering organization. Manage/Lead engineers as appropriate based on business priorities. Coded in the trenches with team • Tech Stack: GoLang (GIN), Python (Django), Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions, AWS CDK), AWS (CDK, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL), Serverless Architecture • Company no longer exists after buyout from a VC.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. * Hired originally to report to the Director of Engineering, but reported to the CTO role. * Deep Dove Companies Technical Stack and highlighted tasks to best serve company continuity. * Lead Engineering Guild Efforts to upskill and mentor the engineering organization by breaking historical silos and supporting more effective communication between members of a multinational team. * Leveraged prior experience in antifraud and security to assist with licensing security model to mitigate compliance risks.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. Hired as a fully remote sr. backend developer, and given a promotion within the same month to Staff Engineer after refusing a Principal Developer Role that was offered, Promoted to Staff Engineer within first month based on scope and impact. Project based role. Augmented prior experience in recruiting by accepting formal training as a technical recruiter, taking training as needed to better understand and support the business and its back end systems. Language Polyglot; Hired as a C# dev, they had no C#. Instead dove into NodeJS/JavaScript, Rust, and Ruby as needed to support the business on AWS with some docker/Kubernetes. Dove into CQRS and Event Based systems, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting sales pipelines as a primarily backend engineer. Exposed to Svelte.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. * Wrote C# that I deployed as the only backend developer to AWS via a BitBucklet Powered CI/CD pipeline I created, managed, and maintained myself to deploy a serverless and Lambda powered ASP.Net Core 3.1 API via the AWS CDK and dotnetcore tooling to ultimately host on standard Linux powered AWS Lambda AMI's. * A small, minimal about of python3 scripting as needed for ad hock tasks such as file uploads to s3, validation, infrastructure as code, etc. * Wrote multiple proof of concepts for REST API’s and subprojects with goals driven by investor goals, in an effort to as resourceful as possible given it was a startup.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. Information Security Focused Systems Software Development and Software Architecture role in the Amazon Tax Organization as the only Developer on the team (A single dev at Amazon is normally a principle FTE role, not a contractor; Owned architecture, delivery, and technical program execution end-to-end, working to build the tech required for financial and legal audits and to keep security standards for regulatory compliance. Successfully completed task list using CI/CD. Java 8, Maven/Gradle, Jackson for JSON., AWS, AWS Java SDK (Including but not limited to AWS IAM, AWS S3, AWS Simple Directory, etc), Python, ZSH, Internal Tools for CI/CD on Linux and Windows 10

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. • Personal Dashboard Development using Grafana, AWS, Python, C# .Net / ASP.NET And Server-less design philosophies leveraging Continuous Delivery and Continuous Test-Driven Development (CTDD). • Some programming language design for a small Domain Specific Programming language designed to take advantage of some custom hardware. • Multiple roles at different companies under stealth mode NDA's.

Engaged to deliver targeted infrastructure stabilization and high-impact technical initiatives. Member of the Microsoft Security Risk Detection team that used C#, F#, T-SQL, Power-shell / Batch (Windows), Python, Bash Scripting (Linux) and minimal Rust on the job using Azure to build Rest API's and Micro-services providing white-box and black-box security fuzzing as a service, with integrations meant to be used as part of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. The first on-call duty I was a part of included both daily BVT's and Customer Incident Response. More Info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security-risk-detection/