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Hello! I am James Ray

James Ray

DevOps Engineer at Five Star Technology Solutions

Starting as a self taught programmer I have pushed myself daily and am not passionate about DevOps Ideals such as CI/CD, IaC, and automation. I love programming and solving any issue that I see.

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
AWS
GCP
Terraform
Packer
Ansible
PHP
MySQL
Python
Javascript

Skills

Recent Posts

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Adding Cognito

Why do I torture myself? Not only do I hate frontend code, I hate trying to handle user authentication. It feels like anything I can think of doing is not secure enough or so complicated I can’t wrap my head around it. I once was told that for something like user security you shouldn’t try to do it yourself, you should allow those who specialize in it to handle it. So here I go, I’m going to try to use Amazon Cognito to do just that form me.

March 3, 2022 Read
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Writing Mocha 1

Let’s get started with Mocha Be forewarned this post is going to be a brain dump as I work through this information. I have never wrote Mocha before, and to be honest I have never been good about TDD. I always write my code and then go back and write my tests. This is mainly because I am not always sure what I expect to get out of my code until it’s too late.

March 2, 2022 Read
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S3 Object Creation

Whoops Ever gone down that path of trying to be too smart for your own good? Yeah that happened to me this time. I want to start out by saying, I am not a frontend developer, so some of the “normal” things that they would expect are still beyond my knowledge. But the thing that really bit me in the butt may not have been the frontend code. So let me give you the backdrop here.

March 1, 2022 Read

Accomplishments

Unified Modeling Language (UML): Complete Guide & Examples
Udemy April 27, 2018

An online course to Learn how to read UML diagrams, interpret every UML notation and build them using practical examples.

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming
Udemy May 21, 2020

A practical programming course for office workers, academics, and administrators who want to improve their productivity.

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Projects

Docker Full Stack
Owner Nov. 2018

A serverless Video Service website

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TFLint AWS ruleset
Member Jul. 2021

TFLint ruleset plugin for Terraform AWS Provider

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Docker Full Stack
Owner Nov. 2018

Full Web Stack W\ Docker

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Laravel PHP Docker
Owner Nov. 2018

A preinstalled laravel docker image

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Experiences

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Marathon Health

Sept. 2021 - Present, Indianapolis, IN

Unmatched Access to Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

Site Reliability Engineer

June. 2022 - Present

  • Monitor performance metrics and alerts.
  • Implement the usage of DORA metrics to improve developer productivity
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD practices in AWS.
  • Monitor usage alerts for production environments.
  • Worked with Terraform, Ansible, Python3, and CircleCI.
DevOps Engineer

Sept. 2021 - June. 2022

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD practices in AWS.
  • Monitor usage alerts for production environments.
  • Worked with Terraform, Ansible, Python3, and CircleCI.
  • Worked with Secuity team to make sure vendors were implementing best security practices
Five Star Technology Solutions

Feb. 2017 - Sept. 2021, Jeffersonville, Indiana

Helping schools create awesome learning experiences for kids!

DevOps Engineer

Nov. 2020 - Sept. 2021

  • Design, develop, and maintain serverless and managed services in AWS and GCP using IaC with Terraform.
  • Responsible for maintaining containerized versions of our application for local development and testing.
  • Design CI/CD practices in AWS and GCP.
  • Monitor usage alerts for production environments.
  • Worked with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Python3.
Applications Developer

Feb. 2017 - Nov. 2020

  • Design and develop custom data warehouse and other core products for Pivot
  • Work in Agile Environment to deliver software to stakeholders.
  • Worked with PHP, MySQL JS ES6.
  • Provided SWAT support for software.
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Contractual Web Developer
Roosevelt Water Conservation District

Aug. 2015 - Mar. 2016, Gilbert, Arizona

Contracts with Roosevelt Water Conservation District to build and support their website.

Responsibilities:
  • Provided web development using Yii Framework.
  • Worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY, PHP, and MySQL
  • Designed and developed ticket tracking system.
  • Migrated data to new web server.
  • Modified Access to CSV Java program.
Contractual Web Developer
Allen Haws

Mar. 2015 - Aug. 2015, Gilbert, Arizona

Sub Contracted with Allen for work with RWCD.

Responsibilities:
  • Provided web development using Yii Framework.
  • Worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY, PHP, and MySQL.
  • Designed and implemented a ETL import process for CSV files.
  • Provided Proof Of Concepts on project designs.
  • Fixed various bugs from previous developer.
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Contractual Web Developer
Taversia Borrelli

Sept. 2013 - Jan. 2016, Bloomington, Indiana

Contracts with Taversia for personal website.

Responsibilities:
  • Programmed website based on client’s needs.
  • Developed home, gallery, credits pages, and more.
  • Worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY, PHP, and MySQL.
Freelance Web Developer
Clean Router (formerly Pandora's Hope)

Feb. 2014 - Dec. 2014, Mesa, Arizona

The Clean Router allows parents to manage all of the devices in the house. It controls everything connected to your home WiFi.

Responsibilities:
  • Developed user interface, back end functionality, and interaction for routers.
  • Worked with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQUERY, JSON, and PHP.
  • Worked with Linux based systems.
  • Diagnosed, reported, and fixed errors and bugs.
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Remote Service Technician
Support.com

Feb. 2014 - Sept. 2013, Redwood City, California

Transformative Customer & Technical Support Solutions

Responsibilities:
  • Supported customers with internet modems and routers.
  • Provided support over phone and remote connection.
  • Remote connection diagnostics on Windows OS and Mac OS machines.