Using tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub we are building highly efficient, repeatable, and scalable systems. I am also assisting the team as a technical resource with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment/release processes, and anything in-between.

Notable Achievements:

• Fully architected a new release strategy which provides zero-downtime deployments, significantly reduced deployment time, and allows for smaller and more frequent releases to production.

• Lead the operation of migrating the source code of 3 teams from Azure DevOps to GitHub.

• Began serving as a technical mentor to fellow TJX associates.

Leverage tools such as Azure and GitHub to create cloud resources, CI/CD pipelines, and automate tasks. Work with the development teams to improve existing processes in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. Assist with the development of members of the team as a technical resource.

Notable Achievements:

• Designed a highly available and disaster resistant application architecture.

• Created a best practice/style guide for infrastructure as code (Bicep/ARM Templates) to help shorten the amount of time to onboard, increase readability, and promote reusability.

Worked in Azure DevOps to create infrastructure/resources, improve automation, and assist with code deployments. Also took part in several co-op projects where we then presented in front of 60+ people including the senior IT leadership.

Notable Achievements:

• Modularized existing infrastructure as code to improve readability, scalability, and reusability.

• Helped create CI/CD pipelines to build, lint, test, and deploy various applications.

Co-op Projects:

• Researched enterprise container security and created an extensive report listing out the container best practices, possible/common risks and threats, and possible implementations.

• Evaluated the current intake process (process in which one team requests something from another), and leveraged Microsoft tools to improve, consolidate, and automate this process.

• Software engineering program, focused on learning HTML, CSS, Javascript, and associated frameworks (such as Bootstrap, Node.js, React, and PostgreSQL)

• Designed mobile-first full-stack applications from conception to deployment, while learning industry best practices

Notable projects

Flashcards App - React, and Bootstrap

• Developed an app to help with studying any given topic.

• Create decks and cards, flip to study, and delete when ready.

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/alexwhitmore/flashcards

Cipher Decoder - JavaScript

• Developed the logic to encrypt/decrypt three ciphers.

• Wrote tests for the cipher logic following a TDD process.

• GitHub repo: https://alexwhitmore.github.io/decoder-ring-project/