Patrick Cockwell - uWaterloo Software Engineering

I graduated University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Software Engineering and am very interested in DevOps, infrastructure management. I also have a strong interest in internal engineering enablement through the development of tooling and processes to improve the productivity and velocity of a development team.

Skills and Qualifications

Tools and Software

Familiar with several Amazon Web Services tools including S3, EC2, Route53, IAM, and Lambda
Familiar with several GCP tools including Cloud Storage, Bigquery, Kubernetes Engine, and IAM
Well versed with infrastructure management tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Solid understanding of ETL and Data Warehousing platforms including extensive usage of Airflow
Frameworks/Toolkits: Ruby on Rails, Django, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Kata (PHP), jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Pylons
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

Ruby: Approximately 2.5 years of development for web application and data management purposes in the workplace
SQL: Over 9 years of experience working with tools including MySQL and PostgreSQL
Python: Over 5 years of usage and experimentation for scripts and ETL platforms
Terraform: Approximately 1 year of experience working against AWS and GCP resources
PHP: Over 4 years of experience obtained working on projects including Orion, AuToDo, RoomClerk, and various analytics dashboards
Very experienced with HTML, CSS, Javascript

Other Qualifications

Have resided in Velocity, an exclusive residence incubator focused on entrepreneurship and technology for 4 terms
Comfortable working in team environments and very experienced working on small teams
Passionate about computer programming, gaming, and particularly DevOps and infrastructure management
Fully bilingual, and fluent in English and French

Relevant Projects

Terraform GCP Infrastructure Management
Infrastructure Stability & Rapid Deployment	Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

Used Terraform to create reusable modules representing common architecture components
Analyzed and determined appropriate user permissions levels to restrict widespread access to resources unless necessary
Autonomously brought project from inception, through proposal, design, implementation, testing and release

Availability Zone Disaster Recovery Test
Infrastructure Stability/Disaster Planning	Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

Used Terraform and Ansible to normalize our infrastructure across 3 AWS Availability Zones
Helped develop a process to simulating an Availability Zone outage, and expected recovery actions
Ran an AZ outage simulation on production environment with no adverse or lasting effects on application performance and uptime

Work Experience

Flyr Inc.
Data/DevOps Engineer	May 2018 - Dec 2019

Led the development of the Flyr ETL platform
Designed, vetted, and built out a custom schema used to standardize data schemas for a variety of airline clients and their data
Implemented a full redesign of GCP resource architectures using Terraform that enabled deployment of new client infrastructure on demand

Agari Data Inc.
Software Engineer	May 2016 - Present

Helped coordinate and successfully executed AWS Availability Zone Disaster Recovery Test
Built multiple application reliant integrations with different AWS services (Route53, S3, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis)
Member of engineering enablement team tasked with infrastructure management via Terraform/Ansible and developing internal tooling to improve development process and velocity of teams working on core products

Breeze Labs Inc.
Software & Data Engineer	Mar 2015 - Apr 2016

Developed multiple integrations with complex external APIs to gather data ranging from credit reports to vehicle locations and mileage
Single-handedly managed and enhanced the entirety of the data and analytics infrastructure
Built many tools to improve the accuracy and reliability of reports to investors and external interests

Hearsay Social Inc.
Software Engineer	Jul 2014 - Feb 2015

Designed and developed a Data Warehouse product, including Extract-Transform-Load process, using S3, Redshift, and custom Python code
Worked to parallelize extraction and transformation of data to improve speed and efficiency
Incorporated heavy data security constraints imposed by clients and business model

Education

University Of Waterloo
Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)	Sept 2009 - Mar 2015

Received a total of 2 years of workplace experience through the University of Waterloo Co-op Program
Course work included Data Structures and Data Management, Algorithms, Concurrency, Database Management, Numerical Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and System Security, and Computer Intelligence