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Ethan E. Harstad

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Certifications

Google Cloud: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

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HashiCorp: Terraform Associate

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Employment

Staff Cloud Engineer - Ocelot Consulting

2022 - Present

Cloud engineering consulting with specialty in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Native Architecture, on-premises to cloud migrations, breaking monoliths, data pipelines and all things cloud.

Senior Principal Engineer - Athene

2021 - 2022

Advocate for and build tooling around progressive development practices: automated testing, continuous delivery, DevOps, 12 factor design. Lead the Tech Lead Community of Practice with the mission of empowering tech leads to more effectively support their development teams through the introduction of patterns and standard libraries. Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, responsible for standards and training development, evangelizing cloud technologies and modern SDLC practices, and consulting with teams to design their applications in the cloud.

Engineering Manager - Athene

2020 - 2021

Responsible for technical direction and development of Athene’s containerization initiative including greenfield development, migration and enhancement of existing internal and vendor applications, and management of the admin and operations team. Member of the Cloud Center of Excellence, responsible for standards and training development, evangelizing cloud technologies and modern SDLC practices, and consulting with teams to design their applications in the cloud.

Director of Application Development - Mythril Technologies

2019 - 2020

Lead the architectural design of a cross platform application for fully data driven data collection, reporting, and project management. Developed the framework for the application in Dart with the Flutter framework to support iOS, Android, web, and desktop clients. Utilized Azure and Firebase backend systems to ensure data consistency in an offline capable environment. Implemented an on-premise high performance compute cluster for image processing and big data analysis.

Principal Software Engineer - Granular

2018 - 2019

Full stack engineer with focus on Python based microservices and big data pipelines with Angular based front end clients.

Senior Software Engineer - Granular

2017 - 2018

Full stack engineer with focus on Python based microservices and big data pipelines with Angular based front end clients.

Software Engineer - The Climate Corporation

2015 - 2017

Full-stack software development of a laboratory information management system including:

  • server architecture management and automation
  • database design and management
  • python backend server development and testing
  • clientside javascript frontend design and development
  • laboratory instrument interface and control software

Research Engineer - Aerodyne Labs

2014 - 2015

Design, develop, prototype, and debug electrical hardware and firmware. Design, develop, and support computer software. Design and fabricate aerospace systems: spacecraft structures, robotics.

Lead Engineer - Make to Innovate Lab, Iowa State University

2012 - 2014

Manage other student engineers and lab students. Train and assist lab members with electrical, mechanical and software engineering and fabrication activities. Develop and lead space systems research projects.

Student Engineer - Space Systems and Controls Lab, Iowa State University

2010 - 2012

Support lab students and faculty with electrical, mechanical and software engineering and fabrication activities. Participate in space systems research projects.

Community

Secretary - Boone Firefighters Association

2019 - Present

Secretary/Webmaster/Technologist - Stratospheric Ballooning Association

2013 - 2018

Presentations/Publications

Building a Global Scale Image Processing Pipeline - DevOpsDays Des Moines 2018

GPUs and Spot Fleet Workloads Chalk Talk - AWS ReInvent 2017

An Integrated Online HAB System for Prediction and Telemetry - Academic High Altitude Conference 2015

Online High Altitude Ballooning Portal - Academic High Altitude Conference 2014

Zero Pressure Ballooning Methods for Academic Studies - Academic High Altitude Conference 2013

High Resolution Balloon Trajectory Prediction Methods - Academic High Altitude Conference 2012

Analysis of High Altitude Balloon Trajectory Prediction Methods - Academic High Altitude Conference 2011

Modular Electronics System for High Altitude Balloons and Small Satellites - Academic High Altitude Conference 2010

About

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