Justin Hunthrop

I'm an engineer passionate about building software that people love to use and building cultures that engineers love to work in.

Ultimate Software 2018-12-03 —

Cloud Engineer III

Focused on implementing SRE standards and best practices.

Highlights

  • Created services to manage SLAs, SLOs, & SLIs and derive error budgets from associated application metrics
  • Developed a unified UI to consolidate deployment tooling and metrics into a single interface
  • Developed SRE career progression path
  • Implemented SRE interviewing standards

DellEMC / Virtustream 2016-04-18 — 2018-11-30

Sr. Principal Software Engineer

In this role, I lead a team of software engineers with a focus on delivering software-defined infrastructure services.

Highlights

  • Lead design, development, and implementation of a storage provisioning and management platform
  • Coached and mentored engineers of all skill levels
  • Lead efforts to standardize and streamline software development practices
  • Implemented objective interview practices for engineering applicants across our organization
  • Implemented and lead technical interview panel
  • Lead major POC efforts regarding software defined infrastructure

Walmart 2015-09-14 — 2016-04-15

Technical Expert

In this role, my main focus was driving implementation of modern technology practices in a legacy environment.

Highlights

  • Planning, design, and proof of concept for a distributed container platform to support all Walmart distribution centers
  • Implemented CI/CD systems and processes to facilitate hundreds of users contributing to centralized configuration management of over 50,000 Linux systems
  • Drove the use of configuration management testing patterns by creating easy to use repository templates that could be distributed across the company
  • Champion of software defined infrastructure to internal business units

EMC 2014-04-14 — 2015-09-09

Principal Software Engineer

Highlights

  • Helped deliver object storage service that was over 2 exabytes in size and supported millions of users
  • Team won the President's award, which is the highest honor given by EMC
  • Implemented three US VMWare clouds to support internal EMC IT workloads
  • Deployment automation including bare-metal provisioning, platform configuration, and shared services (NTP, DNS, Tacacs+, etc..)
  • Created the initial designs and POC environments for API driven compute, network, and storage services leveraging Openstack, Ceph, and Cisco ASRs

Cerner Corporation 2011-01-10 — 2014-04-11

Software Engineer

Highlights

  • Developed bare-metal provisioning systems to enable real time system deployment or reclamation. The overall process time for deploying a physical server went from 3 months to 18 minutes.
  • Created a system leveraging SNMP trap handlers to invoke auto-remediation for infrastructure devices
  • Implemented higher level APIs above infrastructure endpoints to enforce business rules, provide unified identity, and support audit logging
  • Developed an in-memory Linux distribution that supported dynamic inventory and component auditing of physical servers
  • Designed and implemented a system for provisioning and configuration of F5 Virtual Edition (Early form of LBaaS)
  • Created a storage and network mapping solution to support provisioning and impact analysis
  • Implementation of software tracking platform to help reduce TCO of virtualized software installations
  • Designed system to discover unused resources in corporate data centers so they could be reclaimed or decommissioned

J.B. Hunt Transport 2010-07-19 — 2011-01-07

Warranty Coordinator

Highlights

  • Created highly optimized SQL procedures to assist with data mining and analytics
  • Database management of SQL server clusters

Arkansas Tech University 2009-01-12 — 2010-05-15

IT Intern

Highlights

  • System support for faculty, staff, and students

Arkansas Tech University 2004-08-16 — 2010-05-15

Information Technology
Bachelor of Applied Sciences

Leadership

  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Focus
  • Delegation
  • Coaching & Development

Development

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Django
  • Node
  • Express
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Angular

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Openstack
  • OpenContrail
  • Ceph
  • Apache Mesos
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • VMWare vSphere

DevOps

  • Ansible
  • Saltstack
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Jenkins
  • Team City
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Gitlab

Cloud Architecture

  • Solution Design
  • R & D
  • Capital Planning
  • BC/DR
  • High Availability

System Administration

  • Debian/Ubuntu
  • RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
  • Bash
  • Patching/Upgrades
  • Repository Management
  • Package Management

Database Management

  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • MySQL/Maria
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cassandra
  • MongoDB
English
Native speaker

Tech

Golf

Boating

Games

Upon Request