Jeff Fouchard

VP Engineering, Platform, SRE and IT

Fullscript

Mar 2022 - Current (4 years 6 months)

DevOps

Fullscript

Jan 2018 - Current (8 years 8 months)

• Migrated existing hand built environments in AWS to managed environments using Terraform & Ansible, resulting in vasty improved reproducibility and repeatability. • Improved our Gitlab build and deploy pipeline for a monolithic rails application, reducing average pipeline execution time by 50% and enabling developer self-service deployments. • Implemented auto-scaling of our build workers further reducing build times and reducing cost. • Migrated our production workloads from a legacy Rancher 1.6 environment to Kubernetes (EKS). Employed helm to enable Kubernetes chart re-use from developer desktop to production. Worked on developer tooling to ease their interaction with Kubernetes.

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Build Engineer

Trov Inc

Oct 2016 - May 2017 (8 months)

• Implemented an end-to-end automation delivery pipeline across different environments using Github, Jenkins, Chef, Vagrant and AWS to allow rapid development iteration locally and automated testing on AWS at commit time. • Re-engineered the build and deploy process for an IIS hosted .net application. The improvements focused on reproducibility, scalability and parallelization. This rebuild focused on all facets of the process including building the CI server and build agents to artifact packaging and distribution using a combination of Chef and Jenkins pipelines. • Wrote automation scripts based on Chef to configure EC2 instances for application deployment, including automating the integration with services such as Datadog, Sumologic and J

Devops Specialist

Lixar IT

May 2016 - Oct 2016 (6 months)

• Developed and implemented automated application build, infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes for a web based application stack on Microsoft Azure. Processes included SQL schema migration, configuration management and continuous delivery from Git sources to multiple environments to support ongoing development, QA and Production operations. • Revamped deployment and build processes for a Java/Tomcat web application by switching from a Maven based configuration to an Ansible based system. This allowed clearer and more flexible application configuration, better aligned with client needs and enabled provisioning of the infrastructure and Tomcat containers in addition to the application. • Updated developer tooling by migrating f

TechOps Engineer

THINKINGPHONES

Jul 2014 - Jan 2016 (1 year 7 months)

Developed and implemented systems management and automation using Chef. This included web applications on a Apache / Tomcat platform. Re-implemented and improved systems monitoring platform using Nagios / Check_MK. With a team, was responsible for monitoring, response and repair of the enterprise cloud service platform (voice, communications, analytics, and database layers) across hundreds of servers. Worked with development and business leaders to architect / re-implement various parts of the technology stack.

Network and Systems Administrator

RealDecoy

Aug 2011 - Jun 2014 (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for redesign, implementation and support of the entire IT Infrastructure (LAN / WAN, Server stack, Workstations, etc…). Architected and implemented a redundant and highly available SAN backed VMware cluster of well over 100 virtual machines with minimal downtime. Implemented a Linux configuration management system. Implemented a network and server monitoring system. Upgraded and maintained multiple networking devices and services (routers, switching, site to site VPNs, VoIP phone system, etc…) both locally and for branch offices. Maintained corporate services including development tools (continuous integration, bug tracking and source control), mail systems, web servers, application servers, content management systems and

Operations Junior Architect

Alterna Savings

Apr 2011 - Aug 2011 (5 months)

Designed and implemented business automation services mainly around file conversion and ingestion into legacy systems. Maintained and improved existing automation scripts. Developed reports from core business systems.

IT Service Desk Technician

Alterna Savings

Aug 2009 - Apr 2011 (1 year 9 months)

Provided end user support for LOB and standard desktop applications. Developed and implemented an extensible automated imaging system. Automated the user account management process.

Resolution Specialist

Dell

Feb 2006 - Jun 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Launched first end-user Linux support queue for Dell. Provided technical management of a support team to ensure quality of service. Maintained accurate and up-to-date product documentation.

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