Barry Fitzgerald

Experience

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  Barrys of Bantry

  Jun 2007 - Jan 2008

  Technical Apprentice

   Worked as Trainee Panel Beater and Painter Completed phase one of the FAS training regime Carried out car valeting for the workshop to show commitment to the workplace and provide assistance when the company was short staffed

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  O'Learys Volkswagen Lissarda Co.Cork

  Feb 2008 - Sept 2013

  Customer Service Advisor

   Employed as Service Advisor as supervisor under the Service Manager Dedicated 2 years Parts Advisor previously using marketing skills in the promotion & selling of products  Customer care representative, providing direct assistance to the general public in a one to one basis or through various other medium Worked in marketing and selling of accessories for Spar Express Lissarda Co.Cork Responsibility of Campaign Co-Coordinator for the Service Department Assigning Training to the Technicians in order to better the staff Show less

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  Ryan's SuperValu Group

  Oct 2013 - Sept 2016

  Delivery Driver

  SuperValu is part of the Musgrave Group, Ireland's largest grocery and food distributor. With 223 stores throughout Ireland, SuperValu has served the people of Ireland for over 30 years and has become a well established landmark across Irish communities. My role included Carrying out day to day routine tasks that contribute to the running of the business including stock replenishment and customer assistance Deliver weekly groceries to customers to promote the business and help improve the company's reputation throughout the local community Implementing I-CARE procedure, a high standard customer care programme, in daily business environment in the hopes of improving overall customer satisfaction Show less

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  ICBF

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

   Managed Jenkins, Ansible, Amazon Web Services, Zend and Git to ensure seamless deployment of code to production as part of a Dev-ops team within the company Incorporated PHPUnit Testing to the ICBF Application to encourage developers to use best practices for development Operating in an agile environment, utilising a Kanban via Asana to continuously deliver process improvements and application iterations Created optimized reports for clients to make profitable and sensible decisions based on accurate data Enjoy reading about the latest enhancements in industry. Currently reading the DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim Show less ICBF exists to benefit our farmers, our agri-food industry and our wider communities through genetic gain. We do this by the application of science and technology to ensure that our farmers and industry make the most profitable and sustainable decisions, through the use of the services provided from the ICBF cattle breeding database.  Designed and developed a range of interactive frontend web applications using PHP, JQuery, bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3 using NetBeans IDE, for clients to review and monitor their data Oracle certified database developer I constructed and managed Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and Tables to analyze and manipulate big data, daily, from an Exadata Oracle Database Earned the Scrum Master Professional certification and applied these principles to my development process Created optimized reports for clients to make profitable and sensible decisions based on accurate data Show less

  • Junior DevOps Engineer

    Sept 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Graduate Software Engineer

    Oct 2016 - Sept 2018
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  Quest Software

  Oct 2018 - Feb 2019

  Software Dev Engineer.

  KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (KACE SDA) - The KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (formerly the K2000) accelerates the initial provisioning and ongoing administration of system images and driver updates. Working with PHP and JavaScript libraries to maintain the K2000 Systems Deployment Appliance (K2)  Improved layout and design of the K2 using SASS libraries to conform to UI/UX development principles Added functionality to the capture of WIM images using a combination of PHP, JavaScript & VBScript to interact to a legacy C++ application Optimized and improved results from the Quest Knowledge Base REST API using JQuery and Ajax Show less

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  Dell Technologies

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2022

  Working on latest Dell EMC product for provisioning and management of Hybrid cloud CI solutions. Micro-service based architecture leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration and management of the OPCC solution which acts as a base platform for APEX solutions.  Currently the DevOps technical lead for my team to enable CI/CD process while working with a tech stack which include Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloudfoundry, Gradle/Maven, Ansible & Packer  Led the refactor and design of the Jenkins shared library to be more host agnostic with a high level of quality through a unit testing framework as well as providing customisation to allow developers to write their own pipelines Work in the scrum framework and take part in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies. Created docker images (build templates) to assist with the building & testing of their microservices in the pipelines Collaborated with development teams who specialise in golang/python in order to guarantee the highest standards of coding and pipeline structures in all products/applications. Worked closely with my team lead to discuss a strategy to imbed a DevOps culture throughout our development teams Hoping to complete Docker Certified Associate Certification (DCA) by years end Show less DTST provides Dell EMC, partners, and customers with world class applications, tools & analytics to accelerate customer transformations and deployment of Dell EMC solutions while growing revenue and profitability. Continue role as a Full Stack Developer using Angular (FE) with Kotlin (BE) while working with DTST best practices that include pair programming and code reviews. Currently the DevOps champion for my team to enable CI/CD process while working with tech stack which include Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker and Cloudfoundry. Strong believer of the Agile Manifesto and constantly use Kanban on a daily basis and run daily standups. Worked with RPA tools (Automation Anywhere) to help automate mundane admin tasks. Assigned role as squad/feature lead for the development of a tech support tool. As part of this I mentored new developers in the way of DTST code & culture. Ran and took part in interviews in order to bring the best candidates and expand the skillset of our group. Worked closely with Product Owners, UAT and BSA teams in order to guarantee the highest standards of coding and user experience (UI/UX) in all products. Completed the Certified Kubernetes application developer exam  Took part in the Great Place To Work team to improve culture and bring positivity during the pandemic Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

    May 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Software Engineer II

    Feb 2019 - May 2021
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  Sophos

  Aug 2022 - now

  Senior Software Engineer

  DNS Protection provides a globally available secure DNS resolution service. It prevents your users from accessing domains that don't comply with your corporate policy.https://docs.sophos.com/central/customer/help/en-us/ManageYourProducts/DNSProtection/index.html Currently working as a core member of the development team of DNS Protection working with a tech stack that includes Java, Gradle, Springboot, Golang, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Jenkins, Protobuf & REST Working within cloud-based AWS environment for our day-to-day development using EKS, S3, ECR, ELB, ECS & Elastic Cache Seen as the enabler for all CI/CD process & pipelines for our team, implemented initiatives like adding Code Coverage, Security Scanning & Versioning for all DNS Protection microservices & helm charts Show less