Spencer Aranda

Spencer Aranda

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  • About me

    DevOps Engineer @Hughes Network Systems • Kubernetes | GKE | CI/CD | Terraform | Ansible • I improve efficiency through automation and innovative solutions

  • Education

    • Brigham Young University

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      Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering

      Activities and Societies: IEEE club

  • Experience

    • Brigham Young University

      Aug 2013 - Jan 2015

      Taught C++ programming concepts and object oriented programming. Helped students to debug and test their programs. Responsible for creating bash and python scripts for monitoring and administration of Linux systems. I also worked with a team to develop a pronunciation training program called APE, using JavaScript and Python which displayed images of correct tongue placement for a given sound in real-time. Taught C++ programming concepts and object oriented programming. Helped students to debug and test their programs.

      • Computer Science Teaching Assistant

        May 2014 - Jan 2015
      • Computer Programmer

        Dec 2013 - Jul 2014
      • Computer Science Teaching Assistant

        Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
    • Brigham Young University

      Mar 2015 - May 2015
      Computer Science Teaching Assistant

      Taught C++ programming concepts and object oriented programming. Helped students to debug and test their programs.

    • Digi International

      May 2015 - May 2016

      I was responsible for assisting in the execution of test cases for product release from Systems Assurance. I helped maintain Systems Assurance's python framework and kept existing test cases up to date. I automated existing manual test cases using python framework. And helped build Systems Assurance lab environment by acquiring hardware and building up testing stations and platforms to support individual product lines and integrating existing tools.

      • Student Engineer

        Aug 2015 - May 2016
      • Systems Assurance Engineer Intern

        May 2015 - Jul 2015
    • Hughes

      Jun 2016 - now

      Deployment and management of Cloud Infrastructure • Reduced deployment time by 95% and improved deployment consistency by using terraform and implementing GCP Cloud Build CI/CD pipelines to deploy, provision and manage cloud infrastructure and GKE Kubernetes clusters.Migration of on-prem automation scripts to Google Cloud Platform• Developed CI/CD pipeline in GCP Cloud Build to build and deploy custom ansible image and run ansible playbooks for deployment and configuration management of vms in Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), reducing manual intervention by 90%, and reducing deployment and configuration time by 70%.Migration of on-prem databases to Google Cloud VMware Engine• Migrated on-prem dev, uat and production oracle databases to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) by developing and implementing ansible scripts, reducing manual configuration by 90% and reducing migration time by 25%Modem/terminal LUI site• Secured the advanced configuration and statistics (LUI) http site by leveraging F5 load balancer’s virtual server and SSL profile features.• Built authentication security feature by leveraging F5 APM module and integrating Okta as the external identity provider.• Implemented authorization process by using F5 irule LX and nodejs to query Salesforce and ensure user had access rights to the LUI for a particular modem.• Developed and maintained automation scripts for application deployment, monitoring and maintenance by leveraging ansible, reducing deployment time from 3 hours down to 30 minutes and reducing manual effort by 80%. • Deployed, engineered and maintained F5 LTM load balancers by configuring virtual servers, pools, nodes, irules, profiles, persistence and monitors to improve application performance and ensure high availability for business applications. Show less

      • DevOps Engineer

        Jun 2019 - now
      • Application Support Engineer

        Jun 2016 - May 2019
  • Licenses & Certifications