J. Scott Ames

Fill me in, Scotty.

Tecton provides the first enterprise-ready feature store that manages the complete lifecycle of features for data scientists and data engineers — from engineering new features to serving them online for real-time predictions.

Bitnomial was founded in 2014 to create a marketplace connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial offers improved derivatives exchange technology coupled with new digital asset settlement systems.

Shujinko is a software as a service (SaaS) that simplifies, automates and modernizes IT audit preparation and readiness for enterprises. The Shujinko platform streamlines the complex, manual and costly process required for companies to successfully prepare for and pass compliance audits.

• Led team of DevOps & backend software engineers
  • Partnered with product and leadership to develop, prioritize and deliver features and projects
  • Agile planning, mentoring & code reviews
• Architecture
  • Built the foundation for newly formed company’s infrastructure and SDLC with security best practices
    • Using tools such as: Terraform, Packer, AWS (ECS, EKS, Aurora, Lambda, etc.), GCP, CircleCI, Golang
  • Responsible for development & lifecycle of cloud infrastructure, backend systems (microservices), continuous integration & delivery (CI/CD) and the overall health of the Shujinko platform

Co-led a team of DevOps & software engineers to implement containerized microservices platform.

• Engineered highly resilient, repeatable, and secure cloud infrastructure written in a declarative model to achieve infrastructure as code at scale that could be easily adopted by software development teams
  • AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Ansible, Concourse (CI/CD)
• Launched a global rewards program on the platform that handled millions of transactions a day and went on to host many more services for internal teams across the company

• Engineer and maintain datacenter and cloud infrastructure
  • 300+ physical servers
  • 100+ virtual servers / container services
• Reduced data center power footprint saving $3k recurring monthly costs
• Procure, provision, configure and deploy new infrastructure and services (physical and cloud)
• Design, manage, and maintain automation relied upon by engineering, QA and other teams
  • PXE, kickstart, Ansible, Puppet, Python + Bash
• Assess, communicate and remediate risks associated within the IT infrastructure and systems
• Security vulnerabilities, hardware failure, business continuity
• Systematically develop and maintain internal documentation (MediaWiki & Confluence)
• Manage IT vendor relationships
• Vendor selection, contract renewals, licensing

• Engineer & maintain enterprise infrastructure through highly available virtualized solutions
  • Focus on engineering and maintaining back end systems and infrastructure for several of the largest white label mobile commerce initiatives in the U.S. spanning two datacenters and hundreds of nodes
• Created consistent and agile server infrastructure allowing for quick and painless builds by engineering environments-based roles and profiles model with Puppet (infrastructure as code)
• Implement infrastructure automation eliminating hours of manual processes through scripted jobs and reactionary alerts
• Improve environment health monitoring through Zabbix implementation and Splunk collection analytics, alerts and dashboards
• Develop highly effective working relationship with developers to achieve efficient, successful solutions and code deployments

• Maintain, implement and improve operations of enterprise server and desktop infrastructure (100+ server, 400+ desktop)
  • Linux, Windows and Unix - Physical & Virtual environment (VMWare + Hyper-V)
  • Primary on Linux environment, Nagios/Orion (Server Monitoring), Puppet/System Center (System Configuration), SharePoint
• Implement and architect interdepartmental needs and internal IT projects created from scratch to save money, create time efficiencies and reduced manual dependencies
  • Change management, Power management, Vendor management (web based solutions)
• Other implementations that were able to reduce cost and increase efficiencies
  • Ubuntu, Puppet, SVN, Nagios, VMWare
  • System Center: Configuration Manager, Service Manager, Windows Deployment Services, Hyper-V, Solarwinds Orion
• Manage highly available systems and disaster recovery between multiple datacenters
  • Perform a full disaster recovery test once every six months
• Part of small team that relocated two datacenters within six months (Denver to Las Vegas)
• Training/mentoring individuals on processes, solutions and products deployed

• Install, maintain, troubleshoot and repair computer systems, hardware and computer peripherals both on-site and remotely

• Handled various responsibilities:
  • Daily technical processes within Unix environment
  • PC and User support
  • Install and maintain server, desktop and network infrastructure
• Architected and implemented virtual environment to simplify and streamline infrastructure