Josiah Purtlebaugh

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Orchestration

CI/CD

Service Mesh

Observability

Infrastructure As Code

Development

Security and Tooling

Nintendo Co., Ltd. March 2015 to present

Lead a team of SREs to implement best practices for modern system design with a focus on automation, infrastructure as code, and observability.
Design and deploy services on GKE and AWS ECS using custom Go-based tooling, Terraform, and Helm.
Develop consumer-facing gRPC-based microservices in Go with tens of millions of active users.
Automate CI/CD, end-to-end testing with proprietary hardware, and performance testing environments using Jenkins, TeamCity, and GitHub Actions.
Leverage AWS CloudFront and Lambda@Edge to deploy robust caching mechanisms with token authentication at each edge in order to scale NodeJS services deployed on AWS ECS.
Collaborate directly with public cloud vendors to evaluate beta services and provide feedback that drives the specification for those services.

Nintendo of America, Inc. July 2011 to March 2015

Automate deployments and develop tooling to support Nintendo's on-device software delivery platform.
Implemented custom rules and software on F5 network appliances to handle special cases for SSL/TLS negotiation and routing for specific software titles.
Modernized bespoke environments by implementing infrastructure as code using tools such as Puppet and Chef.

The Cobalt Group December 2006 to July 2011

Administrated Weblogic, Apache Tomcat, Strongmail, Qmail, Sendmail and in-house software instances in an Oracle Linux environment.
Designed and implemented fault-tolerant infrastructure for delivery of millions of email messages to opt-in consumers on behalf of our clients.
Participated in Agile and Scrum workflows with regular stand-ups and sprint-planning.