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Craig Kahle

Austin, TX

Cloud Engineer with a broad skill set focused on infrastructure modernization, simplicity and using the right tool for the job

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Front End: JavaScript / ES6, React.js, Vue

Back End: Python: Flask / Django, Ruby: Rails / Sinatra, PHP: Laravel , node.js: express

Dev Ops: Docker, GKE , GCP, AWS, Ansible, Terraform

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Datastore / Firestore, SQLite, Cloud SQL, Schema Designing, Perf Tuning

Pre-Sales: Technical Discovery, POC ideation, Account Prioritization, Driving Revenue

Certifications: GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect - Issued September 2021, FedRAMP

Cloud Customer Engineer - Apr 2021 - Present

Design and implement customer architectures in a pre-sales capacity

Closed multiple deals in the Central region $20M ACV
Lead advanced technical discovery to uncover ideal POCs
Diagram detailed network and application architectures for customer POCs
Analyze data using SQL(googleSQL) and built custom dashboards to present strategic pricing plans for customers to help them save money
Building a Java Spring application deployed as microservices to GKE to support field SEs perform discovery and build solutions for customers.

Cloud Technical Solutions Engineer - Feb 2020 - Apr 2021

Troubleshot Issues and Assist Advanced / Premium GCP Customers

Support S&P 500 Select and Premium Customers across numerous verticals
Maintain playbooks and library of 60+ PLX/SQL queries to join data to trace customer requests
Contributed to an On-Prem -> GCS Data migration PSO tool
Developed internal extension with vanilla JavaScript (ES6) that auto saves complex customer responses in Salesforce used by 300+ TSE

Ruby on Rails Developer - Jun 2016 - Jan 2020

Tasked with building Payment integrations, writing Ansible scripts, and everything in between

Built numerous systems from scratch with Ruby on Rails and Vanilla ES6/React.
Implemented Chase Paymentech tokenization front and backend in https://cart.sxsw.com that processes $40+ million annually
Provisioned and managed AWS Ubuntu 16.04 VMs with Ansible.
Built and maintained APIs used by ~200.000 attendees using the official mobile app by writing performant custom SQL/SQL views

Full Stack Web Developer - Jun 2014 - Jan 2016

Full Stack Developer focusing on Web and Mobile Applications

Built custom web apps on top of the Laravel framework in PHP and Angular JS.
Built a cross platform user forum mobile app on the Ionic framework in Angular 1.x that communicated with a Discourse (Rails) backend.
Contributed to a complete front end rebuild of Gymboree's monolithic e-commerce platform in Angular.

Front End Web Developer - Sep 2012 - May 2014

Front End Developer focused on large scale CMS rollout and templating

Wrote custom templates and contact management systems in PHP on top of the Joomla Framework
Used JS/JQuery and Sass to build systems that were used in 15+ departmental sites within the College of Natural Sciences
Built a mobile first SASS framework upon which all departmental sites were based

Jul 2009 - Jan 2012

BA - Broadcasting, Telecom & Mass Media

Aug 2007 - Apr 2009

Graphic Design