Edson H Philippe
edson.philippe@ufl.edu
2479 Peachtree RD NE, UNIT 103, Atlanta, Georgia, 30305
352-575-4199

Sr Software Engineer

Professional Summary:

Results-driven Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in infrastructure, DevOps, and reliability engineering. Proven expertise in securing and maintaining robust software systems for leading enterprises. Currently contributing to WPEngine as a Sr Software Engineer in Infrastructure.

Working Experience

WPEngine (Sr Software Engineer Infrastructure, 2022/07 - present)

  • Fix security vulnerabilities
  • Maintain Python application that facilitate converting Wordpress VM based app to k8.
  • Develop scripts to stream infrastructure data into GCP BigQuery.
  • Create Data Studio Dashboards for infrastructure trend analysis.
  • Maintain Ansible scripts.

The Home Depot (Sr Software Engineer DEVOPS, 2020 - 2022)

  • Maintain Spinnaker application for the enterprise.
  • Develop Golang micro-services for Spinnaker (OPENAPI, GIN).
  • Create custom Spinnaker plugin in Kotlin and React-js for Home Depot’s custom deployments (SPRING-BOOT).
  • Manage infrastructure as code for Spinnaker using GitOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Vault.
  • Facilitate the adoption of Spinnaker enterprise-wide through Slack support.

The Home Depot (Sr Software Engineer SRE, 2018 - 2020)

  • Implement cloud infrastructure for voice over IP telephony app in Google Cloud (Python, Linux, Docker, opensips, freeswitch, Dialogflow).
  • Scale telephony app from 3 demo stores to 2000 stores with custom auto-healing and auto-scaling (Python-Flask) Pending Pattent .
  • Participate in incident calls, perform postmortems, and conduct root cause analyses.
  • Conduct code reviews for infrastructure as code components.
  • Implemented monitoring, Alerling, and Data Visualization.
  • Train new hires in reliability engineering.

The Home Depot (Software Engineer, Java, 2016 - 2018)

  • Design and develop UI components with Extjs, JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
  • Build backend controllers using Spring-MVC framework.
  • Introduce CI/CD and monitoring practices to the team.

American Express (Software Engineer, C#, 2014 - 2016)

  • Helped building internal dashboard using Graphite that monitored website activity and alerted developers via e-mail when high-priority issues arose.
  • Helped building of event scheduling system for the Serve platform.
  • Developed unit test and functional test using Moq which improved code quality and reduced production bug by 80%.
  • Helped migration from WCF technology to Restfull web services.

JPMorgan Chase ( Part time Software Apprentice and Summer Intern, 2012 - 2014)

  • Improved file transfer security in one of the Java application by using SFTP protocol instead of FTP protocol.
  • Learned Tomcat, J2EE, Jira, Javascript, CSS, HTML and all web development related tools.
  • Created XSLT that would transform XML document into excel documents and csv so that the regular bank customers can see their financial statements in a more readable manner.
  • Wrote COBOL application that would read data from a file and display the file in a more user friendly way on the terminal.

Education & Qualifications

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S Computer Science – Computing Systems (2023)
  • University of Florida College of Engineering, B.S in Computer Engineering (2014)

Languages and Technologies

  • Programming: Golang, Python, Bash, Javascript
  • Database: Mysql
  • Protocol: Oauth2.0, OpenID Connect,SIP/RTP, TCP/IP, gRPC
  • Cloud technologies: GCP, PCF, K8
  • OS: Linux