Andre B.
About Andre B.
Andre B. is a Senior SecDevOps Engineer with extensive experience in infrastructure automation and application deployment. He has worked at various companies, including Labelbox and View, Inc., and has a strong background in technologies such as Ansible, Jenkins, and MongoDB.
Current Role at Labelbox
Andre B. serves as a Senior SecDevOps Engineer at Labelbox since 2021. In this role, he focuses on integrating security practices within the DevOps process. His responsibilities include deploying multi-environment MongoDB 4 clusters using Ansible on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for a NodeJS IoT SaaS backend. He also manages data backup administration, ensuring the integrity and availability of data.
Previous Experience in DevOps and Systems Architecture
Andre has held several significant positions in the field of DevOps and Systems Architecture. He was the Head of DevOps & Systems Architecture at View, Inc in 2019, where he contributed to AI development. Prior to that, he worked as a Sr. Production Services Engineer/DevOps/SRE at Availity from 2020 to 2021. His experience also includes roles at Kurtosys Systems and valet.io, where he focused on full-stack engineering and systems administration.
Technical Skills and Implementations
Andre has demonstrated expertise in various technical implementations throughout his career. He integrated Ansible Infrastructure as Code with Bash and Python to enhance deployment processes. He also implemented Jenkins CI for automating C language code builds from Git repositories and integrated Jenkins with Sonarqube for code sanity and security scans. His work includes utilizing GitLab CI for building NodeJS, ReactJS, and FeathersJS API code into Docker images for continuous deployment to Kubernetes.
Educational Background
Andre's educational background includes studies at The University of Hong Kong, where he achieved certificates in Digital Design, AutoCAD Drafting, and AutoCAD 3D in 1996. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Media Arts from Emerson College from 1996 to 2000. Currently, he is pursuing a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Chestnut Hill College, which he has been studying since 2006.
Early Career and Initial Roles
Andre began his career with various roles in systems administration and application testing. He worked as a Systems Administrator at Hostgator.com for six months in 2011 and spent a month at Intertek as an Application Tester. His early experience also includes positions at Hostway Corporation and Several, where he focused on server administration and website development.