Tim Bangma // Server Engineer @ EA Maxis

Connect with me via email: bangma@pm.me or LinkedIn

Hello!

I am a backend web application developer, and have been working professionally as a software developer for almost 5 years. I’m proficient in several languages: (Java & Springboot (Kotlin / Scala too), Python, Golang).

My most recent positions have been delving into DevOps and SRE, to improve my knowledge around deployment, Kubernetes, CI & CD systems, and automation tooling.

In my free time I am a bit of a programming language enthusiast, and enjoy learning new concepts, paradigms, and tools.

Some of the things I’ve been playing around with:

Efficient compiled programming, with Rust, Golang and Zig
Functional, and Type Oriented programming, with Haskell, Rust, Scala

Work Experience

EA Maxis | Server Engineer | Nov 01 2021 Current

Kotlin

Develop Backend web services for Maxis games

Arctic Wolf | Software Developer - Infrastructure (Member of Technical Staff) | Nov 02 2020 - Oct 29 2021

Golang, Python, CloudFormation, Troposphere, AWS, Kubernetes

Develop and maintain automation tools, including deployment automation.

Design and implement new service in golang to handle and enrich Prometheus webhooks.

Create and maintain python scripting to automate verification tasks across multiple AWS accounts.

Troubleshoot and assist in solving developer issues related to tooling and infrastructure.

Develop and update services built on Kubernetes and CloudFormation python libraries (Troposphere).

Integrate new applications into existing large, high-performance production ecosystems.

HP Inc | Lead DevOps Engineer Mar 02 2020 - Oct 30 2020

AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Groovy, Powershell, terraform, apigee, Python 2/3, Helm

Build Pipeline Technical Lead

Ensuring Uptime for the Pipeline (Rebuild/Repair dev cluster to unblock developers)

SME/’Guru’; build scripting and automation (Jenkins, Python, )

SME/’Guru’; Infrastructure Deployments (Terraform, AWS, Helm, etc.)

Resolving Developer issues with pipeline builds.

Guide developers when needed to enable them to make additions/changes to the infrastructure.

Integrate existing Infrastructure as Code changes from team that previously owned project.

Plan, Build, Integrate improvements to the pipeline, to increase developer productivity.

Outage Investigations; Infrastructure SME

Point of contact for undocumented production issues.

Investigate infrastructure related problems when an outage occurs.

Be available by phone during on-call hours.

Overseeing Security Needs; “Security Champion”

Rotating keys and certificates on a recurring basis.

Ensuring servers are up-to-date with the latest endpoint monitoring solutions.

Managing interactions with the security team, and implementing mitigations to the infrastructure.

Monitoring & Reporting

Point of contact for external teams regarding our Monitoring & Reporting solutions.

Create restricted access users/reports for business users to access data securely.

Implement New Relic Dashboards for Kubernetes health

Help define our definition of uptime, (as a mix of endpoint monitoring, automated testing, etc.)

Kubernetes Cluster Administration

High level management of 5 development clusters, and 3 production cluster.

Investigate resourcing issues, and implement solutions on a node or container level.

Vidyard | Analytics, Full Stack Development 04 Oct 2019 - Feb 28 2020

Scala, Spark, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, NodeJS, AWS Lambda|Kinesis|Glue|SQS|S3

Refactor and maintain a large scale Spark Scala Reporting Cluster

Assist in investigations for integrating Apache Spark and Apache Druid

Design and develop on an AWS serverless microservice ecosystem, with real time analytics streaming.

HP Inc | Java Cloud Software Engineer 01 May 2018 - 27 Sept 2019

Java, SpringBoot, Redis, MongoDB, AWS ApiGateway, Vagrant, Docker, NodeJS, grunt, gulp, etc.

Develop SpringBoot based microservice for AWS.
Design and optimize build pipelines for new and existing applications.
Architect and implement Multi-Tenant OAuth authentication with tap card integration.
Integrate with large scale OIDC identity providers.

ArcelorMittal Dofasco

Full-Time Software Developer 01 Jan 2018 - 31 Apr 2018
Part-Time Contractor 01 Sept 2017 - 31 Dec 2017
Co-op (4 mo) 01 May 2017 - 31 Aug 2017
Co-op (8 mo) 01 Jan 2016 - 31 Aug 2016

Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, AngularJS, Angular, NodeJS, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL, ASP, VB6, etc
Developing sales-facing web applications to optimize the efficency of sales staff.
Co-Lead Modernization initiative to bring legacy projects into common code base.
Modernize and optimize Multi-Million dollar steel sales/auction platform.

Westmount Secondary Music Department | Student: Website Developer | Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Wordpress, cPanel

Update website with music related events and forms.
Develop new back end for site to automatically generate webpages based on music files saved on storage.
Meet with client to discuss and develop expectations and scope.

Schooling

Mohawk College Post-Secondary

Software Development Advanced Diploma (Coop)

Sept 2014 - Dec 2017