Ashley Dumaine

Senior Software Engineer

Akamai Technologies•  July 2020 - Present

+ Assisting in designing, prototyping, and building the company's next-generation PCI- compliant private cloud infrastructure based on RKE2 Kubernetes. + Developing software to automatically create / upgrade RKE2 clusters and core infrastructure workloads such as Fleet, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Fluentbit, kube-vip, OPA Gatekeeper, and CIS-operator. + Deployed and maintaining highly-available container image registry and chartmuseum backed by Harbor and MinIO + Leading design, selection, adoption of persistent block storage solution.

Software Engineer II

Akamai Technologies•  May 2019 - June 2020

+ Assisted in designing, prototyping, and building the first iteration of the company's next-generation private cloud infrastructure in a SAFe / Agile environment. + Lead the design, presentation to lead architects, and entire software development lifecycle of a customized continuous delivery solution for Kubernetes clusters using GitOps practices, based on Flux. + Took ownership of maintaining and improving cluster and tenant application monitoring using Prometheus, jsonnet, Alertmanager, Karma, and Grafana. + Created automated Jenkins pipelines, driving best practices for continuous integration and continuous testing.

Software Development Engineer in Test II

Akamai Technologies•  October 2018 - May 2019

+ Developed new Flask applications to simplify the RTC testing process of releases and ease the scheduling of maintenance for machines on various production networks. + Created alerts and procedures for critical production infrastructure, 2 of which prevented quorum loss in our key management infrastructure. + Created automation for test network maintenance + Partook in regular functionality and feature completion verification before release hand-off to SQA.

DevOps Engineer II

Datto•  January 2018 - October 2018

+ Set up standardized pipelines to deploy applications to any environment, build and test pull requests, and create Debian and RPM packages through OBS. + Partook in on-call rotations to respond to alerts for critical DevOps infrastructure. Administered the company's GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, GitPrime, New Relic, and OpenShift instances. + Created Python modules and RPM packages to ease deployments of web apps across the company, provision virtual machines on the fly for Puppet manifest verification, and for creating OpenStack images for QA to test web apps. + Completed a successful 3-month trial of embedded DevOps on a specific product team to help better meet the needs of their software engineers in their development, testing, and releasing process.

DevOps Engineer

Datto•  June 2016 - December 2017

+ Collaborated with engineers across various teams and locations to meet their continuous integration and continuous delivery needs, setting up automation where there was none before with Jenkins, oVirt, OpenStack, and OBS. + Revamped the majority of the CI infrastructure to use Docker containers created from automatic OpenShift builds to speed up build time by as much as 1100%. + Leveraged Puppet to recreate critical production infrastructure for hosting a large amount of company web services. + Spearheaded the pilot of GitLab for all of software engineering and contributed an upstream feature requested by pilot participants to make code reviews easier, released in GitLab 10.0 . + Administered the company's GitHub, Jenkins, GitPrime, and New Relic instances. Used Flask to create tools for managing Datto device image releases and for creating / managing dev environments. + Conducted monthly new hire training course to teach engineers how to use Git, GitHub, and GitLab.

Software (Site Reliability) Engineering Intern

Google•  May 2015 - August 2015

+ Created a new automated implementation to find poorly performing tasks running in Google’s large-scale cluster management system and transfer those tasks onto other available machines, improving job execution time as a result. + Developed, built, and tested the new software while learning C++ and Golang on the fly as well as Google-internal technologies.

University of Connecticut, Storrs

Computer Science & Engineering, BSE•  August 2012 - May 2016

GPA: 3.823 Graduated as an Honors Scholar and as one of 28 University Scholars in the Class of 2016. Minored in Mathematics. Undergraduate researcher at the UConn VoTeR Lab. Received UTC Scholarship for Outstanding Women and Minorities in STEM, 2014, and distinction for outstanding academic achievement within the CSE/CS/CompE departments, 2015. Completed a 3-semester thesis titled "A General Protocol And Application Programming Interface for Wireless Electroencephalographic Communication Systems".