notes to explain resume bullets

README.md

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 # Resume
 
+* todo
+   * every bullet from my resume, i need to write the story
+   * prepare stories
+      * cross-team project with a hitch and deadline pressure
+      * an urgent incident
+* in interviews, do the dumb version first
+
+## Usage
+
 1. modify [homebrew.yaml](./src/homebrew/homebrew.yaml)
 1. generate `cd ./src/homebrew; bash ./homebrew.sh` (interrupt when it starts timestamping)
 1. `open ./src/homebrew/homebrew.html`

src/homebrew/homebrew.yaml

@@ -26,32 +26,66 @@ resume:
         when: May 2025 - Present
         what:
         - Stabilized automated management, performance tuning, and point-in-time-recovery infrastructure of tens of thousands of PostgreSQL databases.
+          # 40k paid, 30k free in 2025-12
+          # performance tuning -> PGExport queries
+          # pitr -> pitr holes, synchronous success tracking
       - title: Software Engineer
         when: Dec 2023 - May 2025
         what:
         - Crafted PostgreSQL low-downtime migrations and in-place major version upgrades.
+          # PGUpgrades
+            # continuous canary testing matrix
+            # 3 major version targets
+          # FCR
+            # all-in-one solution for cross-region, cross-account, cross-provider migrations
+            # via physical replication
+            # customer-triggered promotion
+            # coupled to power HIPAA migration
     - title: Qualtrics
       headings:
       - title: Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
         when: May 2022 - Dec 2023
         what:
         - Optimized a Go application to increase consumption rate from Kafka by 340%, costing half the engineering effort of the proposed rewrite.
+          # Atlas QMP Consumer
+            # optimized garbage collection of many small objects
+            # from maps and allocs to pointers and slices
         #- Devised a MongoDB live indexing strategy, which supported both current and future use cases, and saved the computing and filling of a new 99% unused native database index.
         - Spearheaded AWS asset replication tooling, sparing 9 teams from duplicating work relocating up to 7 AWS technologies each.
+          # Scanned AWS assets -> interactive script replicated configs to new AWS region
+          # cloned S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB assets
         - Mentored 2 intern, 2 new grad, and 4 mid-level engineers on operational tools, best practices for maintainable software, and career development.
         - Founded the in-house standard system to continuously verify 16 teams' compliance with disaster recovery requirements.
+          # Mongosback backup-check lists S3 for last backup timestamp
         - Created automated release test suites for 11 services, which catches 10 would-be customer facing bugs per month on average.
+          # CRUDdy
+          # tied to Nomad spec
+          # on boot, healthchecks fail for new instance until e2e tests pass per-instance
+          # blocked releases to staging
       - title: Software Engineer II
         when: Oct 2019 - May 2022
         what:
         #- "Scripted no-downtime database reconfiguration, which was leveraged by 3 teams to update 168 instances."
         - Automated infrastructure patching for 30 microservices and 25 database clusters by creating a modular and testable Bash script framework.
+          # Nexpose-Remediations
+          # Couchbase, Mongo, GaleraDB covered
+          # spindown, isSpindownComplete, patch, reboot, pollRebooted, spinup, isSpinupComplete
+          # used cross-team for all Mongo instances
+          # bash tested via `source unit_test_setup.sh; test my_method`
         #- Administered on-call training, including 6 chaos tests gamedays across 5 systems.
       - title: Software Engineer I
         when: Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
         what:
         - Founded Python tookit for full and incremental MongoDB backups, supporting partitioned deployments. The in-house standard for 21 teams.
+          # Mongosback
+          # Python3 script
+          # Handles sharded AND replica sets
+          # watches for any shard in progress AND replica set healthy enough to continue
         - Decreased internal service's annual outages by 91% and hardware costs by 40% via database migration. Scoped alternatives, projected costs, and designed cutover.
+          # Couchbase for GENI (MaraudersMap) was a mess
+            # indexes just kinda disappeared, meaning table scans often
+          # evaluated Mongo, Galera, CockroachDB
+            # Mongo ran with little RAM on laptop + fast startup + lowest latency
   - title: Education
     headings:
     - title: Wake Forest University