Justin McCormick

Launched multiple Kubernetes clusters with nginx-ingress, external_dns, alb-ingress, cert-manager. I've managed K8S clusters using both AWS EKS and Azure AKS.

From 2012 to present day, I've worked for Blackboard, Inc creating software used by K-12 and higher education institutions to provide online learning, grading and an overall classroom presence online. During my time I've worked in several different languages and frameworks. Some major accomplishments: Created and managed AWS resources using Terraform Created and managed Kubernetes Configuration Created and managed Jenkins build pipeline Launched several microservices in the cloud using a combination of Jenkins Pipeline Scripting, Terraform, Kubernetes and NewRelic

I have experience using technologies like Terraform, Apex and Severless for creating and deploying AWS Lambdas. I have contributions to the LocalStack project, as well as help maintain a Serverless plugin for connecting Serverless to LocalStack for development.

Over the last few year I've helped kickoff Microservices at Blackboard with one of the first microservices to be developed using Docker Images and Kubernetes, as well as Jenkins for managing all aspects of of the microservice. Since then I've contibuted to many more internal microservices as well as help to continual improve our ongoing Microservices strategy. I have experience with almost every facet of Microservice development. Writing software in NodeJS, Java or other languages with frameworks like Express and Spring-Boot Exposing RESTful APIs using Express and Spring-Boot Creating and managing AWS networking and security, like VPCs, connecting to RDS via VPC Lambdas, Security Groups, Routing Rule management, Internet Gateways, and NAT Gateways. Creating and managing AWS resources like Postgres Aurora, Route53, Elastic Load Balancers with SSL, EC2, ECS and many more using Terraform. Docker Image creation Build and test automation using Bamboo and Jenkins, including Jenkins Pipeline Scripts Automated and/or scripted deployments of updates Autoscaling Configuration Running multiple services in Kubernetes, including creation and management of their deployment configuration

From 2012 to present day, I've worked for Blackboard, Inc creating software used by K-12 and higher education institutions to provide online learning, grading and an overall classroom presence online. During my time I've worked in several different languages and frameworks. Some major accomplishments: MEAN engine for data synchronization between external and internal service providers, handling over 5million data records a day. Maintained Gulp based build system Configured and managed Bamboo project for Continual Integration

I've used Javascript in some form for my entire development career. I focus primarily on backend development but have experience with UI development. From 2012 to present, I've continued to provide continue mentoring to other developers using frameworks like AngularJS and React+Redux. From 2006-2011, I worked for SchoolCenter using the LAMP stack. We provided a CMS for K-12 schools to have their first web presences. During this time I created dynamically driven UI using technologies like jQuery, as well as helped maintain development and production level systems that handled millions of connections a day.