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# Xe Iaso
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#### Full-stack Engineer
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##### Ottawa, ON   [xeiaso.net][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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### Tailscale - Software Designer   <small>*2020 - present*</small>
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> [Tailscale][tailscale] is a zero config VPN for building secure networks.
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> Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical
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> location.
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#### Highlights
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- Go programming
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- Nix and NixOS
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- SQL integrations
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- End-user facing blog content and customer support
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### Lightspeed - Expert principal en fiabilité du site   <small>*2019 - 2020*</small>
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(Senior Site Reliability Expert)
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> [Lightspeed][lightspeedhq] is a provider of retail, ecommerce and
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> point-of-sale 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
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Agent](https://github.com/heroku/x/tree/master/runtime-metrics)
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- Other backend fixes and improvements on [Threshold
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Autoscaling](https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-autoscaling) and [Threshold
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Alerting](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/metrics#threshold-alerting)
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- [How to Make a Progressive Web App From Your Existing
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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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## Writing
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> Articles listed below will be either personal or professional and do not
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> reflect the views of any company or group I am affiliated with. The writing is
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> my own, with the help of others to make things legible.
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- [My Blog](https://xeiaso.net/blog)
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- [NAS 101: An intro chat about Network Attached
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Storage](https://tailscale.com/blog/nas-101/)
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- [The Sisyphean Task Of DNS Client Config on
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Linux](https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux/)
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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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- ["Open Source" is Broken](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29522941)
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- [The Surreal Horror of PAM](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167560)
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- [Systemd: The Good Parts](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27175960)
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- [I Implemented /dev/printerfact in
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Rust](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26845355)
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- [A Model for Identity in Software](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978511)
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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://xeiaso.net
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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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[tailscale]: https://tailscale.com/
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