Brandon Chircop

Google Cloud Infrastructure:

• Rebuilt the entire Google Cloud Platform (GCP) setup from scratch, focusing on better performance and managing everything with Terraform.
• Planned and completed a smooth migration to the new infrastructure.
• Set up and managed AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, including moving databases from Google CloudSQL to AlloyDB.
• Improved Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by using different node pools for different brands.
• Helped build the infrastructure for the Business Intelligence (BI) team using Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow).
• Created a script to track and show all GitHub tags deployed to production in BigQuery using Apache Airflow.

Monitoring:

• Set up Prometheus for monitoring Kubernetes clusters.
  Migrated logs from Google Cloud Logging to ElasticSearch/Kibana for better log analysis.
• Implemented Grafana for cluster performance dashboards.
  Configured Incident.IO to manage on-call schedules and create a status page for clients.

CI/CD:

• Backend: Used Google Cloud Build, Google Cloud Deploy, and Skaffold for Kubernetes deployments.
• Frontend: Used GitHub Actions with GitHub ARC for secure communication with the Kubernetes clusters.

Internal IT:

• Supported team members with daily technical issues.
  Merged multiple Slack accounts from different brands into one unified account.
• Managed the company’s Google Workspace migration.
  Gave demos and training sessions to help colleagues understand the new tools and systems.
• Moved the company from Jira and Confluence to Linear and Notion for project management and documentation.

Achievements:

• Accomplished all of this as part of a two-person team in just two years, improving infrastructure and workflows significantly.

• Maintaining production related hardware on-premise.
• Salt Stack Configuration Management
• Took part in Google Cloud migration from On-Premise.
• Configured Google Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform.
• ELK Stack Implementation
• Network and Security (Google Cloud VPC, AWS VPC, PFSense, Dell/HP Switches)
• Infrastructure Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager)
• Creating Google Cloud VM images using Packer
• GitHub Actions Pipelines
• Creating and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts
• Implementing Istio and Anthos on GKE Cluster.
• Scripting and automating to reduce repetitive tasks, mainly using Bash and Python languages

• Maintaining and troubleshooting production environment network, using mainly Cisco Switches and PFsense firewalls
• Linux system administration and automation scripting using bash
• Deployment of WordPress projects from Github
• System monitoring using Nagios
• Management of AWS resources including EC2, S3, Route53, CloudFront and CloudWatch
• Maintaining Asterisk PBX setup
• JIRA Admin and support
• Support technical teams of clients, with video streaming products
• Had an opportunity to train new joiners
• Setup and maintaining virtualized environments provisioned using VMWare
• Hands-on server and network hardware.
• Administration of Windows Active Directory and IIS
• Video Encoding and Distribution using FFMPEG, Wowza and Akamai