updated for 2025

README.md

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 # Resume
 
+* todo
+   * 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`
-1. `ctrl + p` and save as pdf
+1. `ctrl + p` and save as `./src/homebrew/homebrew.pdf`
 1. commit + push
 1. `.gitea/...` CICD pushes to firebase + gitlab

src/homebrew/homebrew.html

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                 <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center; font-size: 14pt;">
                   <view style="height: 3.75pt; width: 30pt; background-color: rgb(129, 140, 248); margin-right: 10.5pt;">
                   </view>
-                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">WORK EXPERIENCE</text>
+                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">Work Experience</text>
                 </view>
 
                 
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                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Senior Software Engineer</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Senior Software Engineer</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">May 2025 - Present
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">May 2025 - Present
                     </text>
                   </view>
 
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                     <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;">
                       <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold; padding-left: 6pt; padding-right: 6pt; line-height: 1.35; margin-top: 0pt;">&#8226</text>
-                      <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.35; flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 0px;">Stabilized automated management, performance tuning, and point-in-time-recovery infrastructure of tens of thousands of PostgreSQL databases.</text>
+                      <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.35; flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 0px;">Cut new PostgreSQL major version support development cost from 8 weeks to 1 week.</text>
+                    </view>
+                    
+                    <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row;">
+                      <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold; padding-left: 6pt; padding-right: 6pt; line-height: 1.35; margin-top: 0pt;">&#8226</text>
+                      <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.35; flex-grow: 1; flex-basis: 0px;">Reduced point-in-time-recovery restore failure volume 60% and restore runtime up to 80% with dynamic tuning.</text>
                     </view>
                     
 
                   </view>
                   
                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">Dec 2023 - May 2025
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">Dec 2023 - May 2025
                     </text>
                   </view>
 
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                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">May 2022 - Dec 2023
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">May 2022 - Dec 2023
                     </text>
                   </view>
 
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                   </view>
                   
                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer II</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer II</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">Oct 2019 - May 2022
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">Oct 2019 - May 2022
                     </text>
                   </view>
 
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                   </view>
                   
                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer I</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">Software Engineer I</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
                     </text>
                   </view>
 
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                 <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center; font-size: 14pt;">
                   <view style="height: 3.75pt; width: 30pt; background-color: rgb(129, 140, 248); margin-right: 10.5pt;">
                   </view>
-                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">EDUCATION</text>
+                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">Education</text>
                 </view>
 
                 
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                 <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center; font-size: 14pt;">
                   <view style="height: 3.75pt; width: 30pt; background-color: rgb(129, 140, 248); margin-right: 10.5pt;">
                   </view>
-                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">SKILLS</text>
+                  <text style="font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;" class="resume-headings-i-title">Skills</text>
                 </view>
 
                 

src/homebrew/homebrew.tmpl

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                   {{ range .headings }}
                   <view style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; margin-top: 4.5pt;">
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">{{ .title }}</text>
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;" class="resume-headings-i-headings-i-headings-i-title">{{ .title }}</text>
-                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: bold;">{{ .when }}
+                    <text style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-weight: normal; font-size: 9.5pt;">{{ .when }}
                     </text>
                   </view>
 

src/homebrew/homebrew.yaml

@@ -18,41 +18,82 @@ resume:
      link: https://linkedin.com/in/breeldev
      svg: '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512" style="width: 13pt; height: 13pt; fill: rgb(82, 82, 82);"><path d="M416 32H31.9C14.3 32 0 46.5 0 64.3v383.4C0 465.5 14.3 480 31.9 480H416c17.6 0 32-14.5 32-32.3V64.3c0-17.8-14.4-32.3-32-32.3zM135.4 416H69V202.2h66.5V416zm-33.2-243c-21.3 0-38.5-17.3-38.5-38.5S80.9 96 102.2 96c21.2 0 38.5 17.3 38.5 38.5 0 21.3-17.2 38.5-38.5 38.5zm282.1 243h-66.4V312c0-24.8-.5-56.7-34.5-56.7-34.6 0-39.9 27-39.9 54.9V416h-66.4V202.2h63.7v29.2h.9c8.9-16.8 30.6-34.5 62.9-34.5 67.2 0 79.7 44.3 79.7 101.9V416z"></path></svg>'
   headings:
-  - title: WORK EXPERIENCE
+  - title: Work Experience
     headings:
     - title: Render
       headings:
       - title: Senior Software Engineer
         when: May 2025 - Present
         what:
-        - Stabilized automated management, performance tuning, and point-in-time-recovery infrastructure of tens of thousands of PostgreSQL databases.
+        - Cut new PostgreSQL major version support development cost from 8 weeks to 1 week.
+          # refactored + go generated + templated CI from PG17 to PG18
+          # had to wait 4w for TimescaleDB to ship, but no active time for us
+        - Reduced point-in-time-recovery restore failure volume 60% and restore runtime up to 80% with dynamic tuning.
+          # 40k paid, 30k free in 2025-12
+          # performance tuning -> PGExport queries
+          # pitr -> pitr holes, synchronous success tracking
+          # -50% restore failure rate by limiting postgresql.conf memory
+          # increment backups after 10k WAL files (1h of replay)
+          # render_pg_archive.sh synchronously tracks PITR health
+        #- Shipped autoscaling storage, in-place managed credential rotation
       - 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.
-  - title: EDUCATION
+          # 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
       not-when: Dec 2017
@@ -68,7 +109,7 @@ resume:
   #    when: Jun 2018
   #    what:
   #    - Refactored to correct bugs and improve efficiency by orders of magnitude
-  - title: SKILLS
+  - title: Skills
     what:
     - 'Languages: Go (Golang), Bash, Python3'
     - 'Platforms: Kubernetes, Temporal, Hashicorp, Linux/Unix, AWS, REST, Microservices'