Becky Mc Dermott
About Becky Mc Dermott
Becky Mc Dermott is a Principal R&D System Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories with extensive experience in software engineering and system development.
Company
Becky Mc Dermott is currently employed at Sandia National Laboratories, where she has been working since 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico Area. Sandia National Laboratories focuses on research and development in various scientific and engineering disciplines.
Title
Becky Mc Dermott holds the position of R&D System Engineer (Principal) at Sandia National Laboratories. Her role involves leading DevOps engineering teams and managing sophisticated software development projects.
Education and Expertise
Becky Mc Dermott earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering, with a core focus on Software Engineering, from The University of New Mexico in 1970. Additionally, she achieved ITIL Foundation Certification in IT Service Management from PeopleCert in 2014.
Background
Before her current role, Becky Mc Dermott worked in various positions including Senior Software Engineer at Hospital Services Corporation, Systems Analyst at Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and Software Systems Engineer at SAIC. She has experience in software and database development, gathered from her tenure as an independent contractor for the Indian Health Service and other notable organizations.
Project Accomplishments
At Sandia National Laboratories, Becky led a DevOps engineering team on a ground station software modernization project and transitioned Docker Swarm deployments to Kubernetes using Helm. She developed a Python deployment tool to automate processes and implemented GitLab CI pipelines for code builds and deployments. Moreover, she deployed the EFK stack for logging and monitoring, and integrated Prometheus and Grafana for system monitoring. Her work includes managing certificates and LDAP configurations within Kubernetes and troubleshooting Helm-based deployments.