Michael Braha
Skills
- Languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, Go, C, Solidity, Markup languages, Matlab
- Tools and Frameworks: Ansible, Packer, Vagrant, VirtualBox, QEMU/KVM, AWS, K8s, VMWare, Artifactory, GitLab, Docker/Podman, Git, Terraform, Node.js, React, Flask, Tkinter, unittest, REST API, MongoDB, Web3, Truffle, Ethereum, Ganache, IPFS
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Experience
DevOps Engineer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. July 2020 – present
Design processes, tools, and methodologies using robust configuration management and automation to address inefficiencies in the software development lifecycle.
- Proselytize through documentation and hands-on training to shift company culture towards modern DevOps principles.
- Implemented a toolchain to design, create, and distribute reusable Virtual Machines (VMs), thereby reducing dependency on host machine configuration and unifying developer environments.
- Created processes and tooling for integrating Artifactory as the main binary repository, replacing an antiquated system of file shares.
- Architected processes for developer adoption of GitLab and the department’s use of Continuous Integration pipelines.
Stood up end-to-end Windows image pipelines, with automated patching and hardening, to optimize the software field loading procedure for ground stations.
Autopilot Software Engineer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. March 2018 – July 2020
Developed autopilot software for military UAVs from requirements to field testing. Wrote real-time aircraft flight control software in C.
- Thoroughly supported the SDLC: requirement analysis and creation, code design, peer reviews, test generation, test execution, and test reporting.
- Generated test documents and conducted Integration Testing in Hardware in the Loop (HIL) labs.
- Managed Jenkins workload for regression testing. Created jobs, debugged issues, and added configuration management to make creating and executing future jobs easier.
- Implemented a revised architecture for an in-house test framework that provided better tracing between tests and requirements, greater reusability of requirement-based tests written during CR development, and promoted composition of more robust unit tests.
Avionics Technical Writer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. May 2016 – May 2018
Responsible for the development of technical changes to the MQ-9 Organizational Maintenance manual by employing subject matter expertise on MQ-9 Avionics repair and Fault Isolation troubleshooting procedures.
Projects
Full-stack web application that allows users to store information regarding rooms, items, and their monetary value. A Flask server hosts a REST API, a React client interacts with it, and data is persisted with MongoDB. A separate Terraform project fully deploys the application to AWS, including CI/CD to allow live developer editing of the project.
The static website version of this resume that’s hosted on AWS. Terraform manages cloud infrastructure and GitHub Actions perform CI/CD operations for supporting repositories. I wrote a Go program, resumerk, to convert Markdown to HTML and PDF.
A TUI allowing users to see and perform basic operations on installed Vagrant virtual machines. Implemented as a Go wrapper around the Vagrant binary.
Education
University of Florida 2010 – 2015
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Minor in Business Administration