Jake McDermott

Workday Inc.

Software Engineer II - DevOps • July, 2017 — Present

Deploying Workday on AWS. Created a Kubernetes and Docker based cloud platform across multiple regions and environments. Developed and designed Golang, Ruby and Jenkins applications to enable software teams to maintain and deploy software.

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer - Intern • Jan, 2016 — Sept, 2016

Interned in the AWS Network Automation department. Project was a caching mechanism to reduce the load time of a network tool. Achieved this by creating a database backed web service using Python Flask to store, query and verify JSON files. Successfully reduced load time by 86%, saving 876 man hours per year.

Archway Products Ltd

Software Development Engineer - Intern • May, 2015 — Sept, 2015

Lead developer in an application to streamline business processes associated with the UK branch. Recording GPS locations of trucks, calculating wages, determining nearest supply stop for materials and calculating running totals of creditors. Created a web application using Groovy Grails framework, and the Canvas remote data capture software.

Maynooth University

BSc. Comp. Science & Software Engineering • 2013 — 2017

• First Class Honours

Carrick on Shannon Community School

Leaving Certificate • 2013

• 420 Points

Technology

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Services, Jenkins, Jira, MySQL, Concurrency

Technology Skills

Agile Development, Functional Requirements, Production Support (oncall), UI and UA testing, Integration Testing, Testing Automation, Scripting, Documentation, Public Speaking

Programming Languages (in order of competence)

Python, Golang, Ruby, Java, C++, Bash

Reading List

Check out the books and blogs I read - [link]