May 2022 - Present
Shawn Smith
- @helixspiral
- Automate all the things
- Maine, USA
Resume
View allOct 2020 - May 2022
Director of Infrastructure, nVisium
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
DevOps Engineer, nVisium
Sep 2009 - Mar 2020
94F - Computer/Detection Systems Repairer, Maine Army National Guard
Links
I’ve been featured!
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Featured in an article talking about some high profile twitter accounts getting hacked. Link to the SC Magazine article
Featured in an article talking about Jenkins. Link to the TheNewStack article
Featured in an article talking about the Conti Gang ransomware attack. Link to the Threatpost article
Featured in an article talking about policy compliance and security testing automation. Link to the TechBeacon article
Things I’ve built
Maine Power Outage Statistics Twitter Bot
Emergency Dispatch Twitter Bot
Revived an old project, DNSBL service written in Golang that I first worked on in 2015. Sectioned it out of the project it was part of and released it on it's own. Link to the GitHub project
Created a Open Source Calendly API Wrapper in Golang for ease of integrating the service into other platforms I use. Link to the project on GitHub
My articles and blogs
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Architecture agnostic multi-arch Rust Docker containers
Wrote a follow-up blog post to one I did previously on System Scalability and Microservices. This time I focus on the build and deployment aspects of the services I wrote. https://helixspiral.githu...
I wrote a blog post on automating a Kubernetes setup with Saltstack. Link to the blog post
I wrote a blog post on deployment backwards compatibility by leveraging git tags. Link to the blog post