Jay Crotts

GitHub: github.com/jcrotts

Introduction

Engineer with 6 years of experience working in agile development teams. Effective at designing and implementing cloud native infrastructure with a wide variety of tools. Skilled at identifying key areas for process automation. Experienced in automating legacy systems, and integrating them into modern applications.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi
Languages: Python, C#
Frameworks: Django, Flask, Svelte
Databases: Sqlite, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Cloud: AWS, vCenter
Containers: Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes
Networking: CCNA (Expired: 2019), Cisco IOS
Security: SOC2, Nessus

Experience

Systems Engineer, VMware - March 2021 - present

• Automated security credential lifecycle across team’s global backend services, eliminating 250 hours in manual processes
• Designed Just-in-time disaster recovery service with terraform for 30 sites, protecting $15M in company revenue
• Built bootstrap services to dynamically import terraform templates to support stateless workloads
• Architected several command line automation tools to support legacy systems and enhance team’s quality of life

Software Engineer, Cisco Systems - 2017 - 2021

• Engineered a python integration service to track application deployment and infrastructure utilization
• Built an application that manages Cisco’s smart power distribution units (PDUS) that are globally deployed across Cisco’s Datacenters
• Transformed the Cisco IT network hardware testing process with software automation, reducing qualification time by 80%
• Migrated legacy app deployment processes to modern devops pipelines, unifying software development lifecycle
• Conducted software engineering interviews and fostered new hire skillsets with biweekly code reviews

Technical Intern, Cisco Systems - 2015 - Fall 2016

• Deployed datacenter infrastructure management solution (DCIM) for a 250 cabinet datacenter
• Wrote network configuration and audit scripts using Ansible

Technical Intern, Neuralog Inc - Summer 2014 - Fall 2014

• Tested infrared and humidity sensors using electronics testbench
• Created part drawings using autocad

Education

M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology GPA: 3.82, (Spring, 2019)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude, Texas A&M University GPA: 3.52, (Fall 2016)

Open Source Projects

Click

• A maintainer of Click, a Python library for creating command line applications

Netmiko

• Added the save_config method to Netmiko, a Python ssh library