Ben Stoker

Computer Science

2000 - 2008

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - Present

Informative Research, Irvine, CA

• Designed and implemented multiple environment-centric infrastructures in Azure for hosting customer-facing applications.
• Created and maintained multiple Kubernetes clusters for hosting applications that have 100K or more requests per day each.
• Built a robust disaster recovery library using infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Designed and maintained custom-built application build and deploy pipelines for internally built software.
• Ensured all operations project documentation was created and maintained in a central repository (Jira).
• Design migration path in Azure to move applications from unsupported cloud services to virtual machines.
• Designed and implemented EKS clusters and networking for next-generation application hosting.
• Created and implemented security remediation protocols for both application and infrastructure.
• Developed and maintained robust GitHub testing and build actions for proper CI/CD pipelines of microservice-based enterprise applications.
• Designed and implemented Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure in AWS for multiple microservice-based APIs.

Hardware Engineer

2017 - 2020

Lawnchair Society, Chattanooga, TN

• Designed and built multiple custom hardware conference badges for local security industry group
• Designed Zigbee mesh-based wireless temperature probes for use in the food industry. Wrote firmware for this on a number of different chipsets
• Developed interface for flash programming, calibration, and testing of multiple hardware units simultaneously

Security Architect

2017 - 2018

Shaw Industries, Dalton, GA

• Performed vulnerability assessment & penetration tests (white and black box) for online sales and customer service portals
• Created automated malware analysis platform using Ansible and Cuckoo
• Automated containerized application vulnerability assessments using Archery and Mozilla Observatory
• Automated vulnerability scans and reporting for both management and blue team personnel using Nessus and NodeJS
• Developed parsers and runbooks using Metron and Elastic Stack for Active Directory and firewall log anomalies
• Acted as lead forensics investigator using EnCase

Senior Operations Analyst

2009 - 2017

Shaw Industries, Dalton, GA

• Managed large-scale OpenShift platforms (IT and OT) with emphasis on maintaining uptime and security
• Developed Puppet scripts for maintaining software and patch versions across Red Hat server network using Satellite
• Merged production and development Jenkins servers into one, managed Jenkins system with SOX-compliant user controls
• Risk assessments across multiple business units with an emphasis on disaster recovery planning and testing
• Developed lab software to teach linux server troubleshooting techniques
• Created procedures for and implemented stricter password rules for application service accounts
• Developed and maintained resource utilization and correction software that currently monitors over 1500 servers and applications
• Deployed and managed Sendmail servers for linking outgoing mail with Google’s anti-virus and spam system

Senior Programmer

2011 - 2012

Walker County Schools, LaFayette, GA

• Developed imaging software for mobile devices used by the schools
• Developed mobile applications for IOS that allow technicians to check in/check out at locations as well as keep track of mileage
• Designed and developed text messaging communication system for communicating to parents alerts regarding weather and other emergencies