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# Christine Dodrill
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#### Web and Backend Services Devops Specialist
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##### Montreal, QC   [christine.website][homepage]
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`Docker`, `Git`, `Go`, `Rust`, `C`, `Stenography`, `DevOps`, `Heroku`, `Continuous
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Integration/Delivery`, `WebAssembly`, `Lua`, `Mindfulness`, `HTTP/2`, `Alpine
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Linux`, `Ubuntu`, `Linux`, `GraphViz`, `Progressive Web Apps`, `yaml`, `SQL`,
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`Postgres`, `MySQL`, `SQLite`, `Ordained Minister`, `Dudeism`, `Tech Writing`,
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`Kubernetes`, `Command Line Apps`
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## Experience
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### Lightspeed - Expert principal en fiabilité du site   <small>*2019 - current*</small>
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(Senior Site Reliability Expert)
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> [Lightspeed][lightspeedhq] is a provider of retail, ecommerce and point-of-sale
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> solutions for small and medium scale businesses.
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#### Highlights
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- Migration from cloud to cloud
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- Work on the cloud platform initiative
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- Crafting reliable infrastructure for clients of customers
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- Creation of an internally consistent and extensible command line interface for
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internal tooling
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### Heroku - Senior Software Engineer   <small>*2017 - 2019*</small>
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> [Heroku][heroku] is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that created the term
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> "platform as a service". Heroku currently supports several programming
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> languages that are commonly used on the web. Heroku, one of the first cloud
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> platforms, has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the
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> Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure,
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> Python, PHP, and Go.
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#### Highlights
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- [JVM Application Metrics](https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1133)
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- [Go Runtime Metrics Agent](https://github.com/heroku/x/tree/master/runtime-metrics)
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- Other backend fixes and improvements on [Threshold Autoscaling](https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-autoscaling) and [Threshold Alerting](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/metrics#threshold-alerting)
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- [How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing Website](https://blog.heroku.com/how-to-make-progressive-web-app)
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### Backplane.io - Software Engineer   <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>
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> [Backplane](https://backplane.io) (now defunct) was an innovative reverse reverse proxy that
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> helps administrators and startups simplify their web application routing.
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#### Highlights
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- Performance monitoring of production servers
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- Continuous deployment and development in Go
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- Learning a lot about HTTP/2 and load balancing
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### Pure Storage - Member of Technical Staff   <small>*2016 - 2016*</small>
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> Pure Storage is a Mountain View, California-based enterprise data flash storage
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> company founded in 2009. It is traded on the NYSE (PSTG).
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#### Highlights
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- Code maintenance
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### IMVU - Site Reliability Engineer   <small>*2015 - 2016*</small>
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> IMVU, inc is a company whose mission is to help people find and communicate
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> with eachother. Their main product is a 3D avatar-based chat client and its
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> surrounding infrastructure allowing creators to make content for the avatars
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> to wear.
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#### Highlights
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- Wrote up technical designs
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- Implemented technical designs on an over 800 machine cluster
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- Continuous learning of a lot of very powerful systems and improving upon them
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when it is needed
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### VTCSecure - Deis Consultant (contract)   <small>*2014 - 2015*</small>
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> VTCSecure is a company dedicated to helping with custom and standard
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> audio/video conferencing solutions. They specialize in helping the deaf and
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> blind communicate over today's infrastructure without any trouble on their end.
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#### Highlights
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- Started groundwork for a dynamically scalable infrastructure on a project for
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helping the blind see things
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- Developed a prototype of a new website for VTCSecure
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- Education on best practices using Docker and CoreOS
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- Learning Freeswitch
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### Crowdflower - Deis Consultant (Contract)   <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>
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> Crowdflower is a company that uses crowdsourcing to have its customers submit
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> tasks to be done, similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. CrowdFlower has over 50
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> labor channel partners, and its network has more than 5 million contributors
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> worldwide.
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#### Highlights
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- Research and development on scalable Linux deployments on AWS via CoreOS and
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Docker
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- Development of in-house tools to speed instance creation
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- Laid groundwork on the creation and use of better tools for managing large
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clusters of CoreOS and Fleet machines
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### OpDemand - Software Engineering Intern   <small>*2014 - 2014*</small>
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> OpDemand is the company behind the open source project Deis, a distributed
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> platform-as-a-service (PaaS) designed from the ground up to emulate Heroku but
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> on privately owned servers.
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#### Highlights
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- Built new base image for Deis components
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- Research and development on a new builder component
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## Portfolio Highlights
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### [Olin](https://github.com/Xe/olin)
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An embeddable userspace kernel for executing WebAssembly programs.
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The main goal of this is to allow for an easier migration to another CPU
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architecture (such as RISC-V, aarch64 or ppc64be) without having to recompile
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existing code.
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I have written multiple blogposts on this project:
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- https://christine.website/blog/olin-1-why-09-1-2018
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- https://christine.website/blog/olin-2-the-future-09-5-2018
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- https://christine.website/blog/olin-progress-2019-12-14
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As of March 21, 2019, Olin is able to run binaries compiled with [Go 1.12.x
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WebAssembly support](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly). Olin also
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is known to work on big-endian systems with no changes needed to source code or
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binaries.
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It also supports security policies similar to a combination of the OSX sandbox
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profiles and OpenBSD's pledge() system call. This allows users to limit the
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scope of what resources an Olin program can access, including file URLs, the
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amount of ram that can be used or the number of WebAssembly instructions that
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can be executed.
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### [Wasmcloud](https://tulpa.dev/within/wasmcloud)
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Wasmcloud is a Heroku or AWS Lambda-like functions as a service backend and
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platform for event-driven architecture built on top of WebAssembly. It wraps
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[Olin](https://github.com/Xe/olin) and provides a lot of higher-level
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conveniences for users. I have written [a
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blogpost](https://christine.website/blog/wasmcloud-progress-2019-12-08) on my
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progress and where I'm wanting to go with this project.
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### [ilo Kesi](https://github.com/Xe/x/tree/master/discord/ilo-kesi)
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A chatbot that parses its commands through the grammar of the constructed
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language [Toki Pona](http://tokipona.org), then figures out what the user is
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asking for using a lookup table and executes that request.
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### When Then Zen
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[When Then Zen](https://when-then-zen.christine.website) is meditation instructions translated into Gherkin, a-la:
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Feature: Anapana (mindfulness via breathing) meditation
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Background:
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Given no assumption about meditation background
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And a willingness to learn
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And no significant problems with breathing through the body's nose
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And I am seated or laying down comfortably
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And no music is playing
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Scenario Outline: mindfulness of breathing
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As a meditator
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In order to be mindful of the body's breath
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When I <verb> through the body's nose
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Then I focus on the sensations of breath
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Then I focus on the feelings of breath through the nasal cavity
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Then I focus on the feelings of breath interacting with the nostrils
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Then I repeat until done
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Examples:
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| inhale |
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| exhale |
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```
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This has been well-recieved by coworkers, friends and others. I have written more on the subject [here](https://christine.website/blog/when-then-zen-anapana-2018-08-15).
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## Writing
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> Articles listed below will be either personal or professional and do not reflect the views of any company or group I am affiliated with. The writing is my own, with the help of others to make things legible.
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- [My Blog](https://christine.website/blog)
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- [I Put Words on This Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me Now](https://christine.website/blog/experimental-rilkef-2018-11-30)
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I have gotten to the front page of [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com) several times. Here are a few of the comment threads:
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- [I Put Words on This Webpage so You Have to Listen to Me now](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577758)
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- [TempleOS: 1 - Installation](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19961082)
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- [WebAssembly on the Server: How System Calls Work](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20066204)
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- [Olin: Defining a New Primitive for Event-Driven Services](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17896307)
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## Ordination
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I am an ordained minister with the [Church of the Latter-day Dude](https://dudeism.com). This allows me to officiate religious ceremonies in at least the United States. I would be honored if you were to choose me to officiate anything for any reason. Please [contact](/contact) me if you have any questions.
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[homepage]: https://christine.website
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[twitter]: https://twitter.com/theprincessxena
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[twit]: http://cdn-careers.sstatic.net/careers/Img/icon-twitter.png?v=b1bd58ad2034
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[heroku]: https://www.heroku.com
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[lightspeedhq]: https://www.lightspeedhq.com
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