Christopher Xavier Carroll’s CV

Phone: +1 570 730 2522 | Email: [email protected] | Location: Ashburn, VA | Website: carroll.codes | GitHub: Criyl | LinkedIn: christopherxcarroll

Certifications

Dec 2023 – present | Herndon, VA

Developed advanced search functionality using OpenSearch, enabling efficient, scalable, and high-performance data retrieval across the platform.
Designed and executed end-to-end testing workflows using Playwright, automating testing stages to ensure high-quality and reliable feature releases.
Implemented GitOps strategies leveraging Argo-Workflows, ArgoCD, and Argo-Events.
Managed stateful and stateless workloads on Kubernetes, optimizing resource usage and deployment strategies for high availability.
Designed and deployed cloud-native micro-services using Kubernetes, ensuring scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
Leveraged Open Policy Agent (OPA) to implement fine-grained, policy-based access controls, strengthening security while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Monitored, Secured, and Improved Kubernetes clusters across multiple Authorities in cleared and uncleared spaces.
Ensured continuous compliance with NIST and ISO standards, regularly auditing and enforcing security standards to maintain a robust and compliant infrastructure.

May 2022 – Dec 2023 | Ashburn, VA

Maintained and enhanced a mission-critical Django application responsible for ensuring organizational security and compliance.
Led a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) refactor using Terraform, resulting in increased deployment frequency, reduced infrastructure costs, and streamlined provisioning processes.
Championed the migration of the entire system to a new AWS environment.
Ensured continuous compliance with NIST and ISO standards, regularly auditing and enforcing security standards to maintain a robust and compliant infrastructure.
Collaborated closely with customer representatives to ensure that technical solutions aligned with business requirements and security needs.
Developed in-house automation tools that reduced operational lead times by three days, significantly improving the team’s efficiency.
Leveraged Jenkins to implement CI/CD pipelines for testing, linting, versioning, and deploying applications in a fully automated environment.
Conducted one-on-one and group training sessions on best practices in professional development, ensuring maintainable, scalable, and secure codebases.

Jan 2023 – June 2023 | Ashburn, VA

Implemented threat intelligence feeds to aggregate and correlate threat data into a SIEM, enhancing the teams ability to detect and respond to security incidents effectively.
Conducted initial triage and analysis of security events, escalating critical issues to senior team members when necessary.
Performed regular security posture assessments, identifying vulnerabilities and recommending remediation actions to enhance client security.

Dec 2021 – Mar 2022 | Reading, PA

Wrote software for a startup making user-friendly 3D printers marketed toward the education sector.
Designed and Implemented a distributed cloud platform for slicing models for use in 3D printing.
Refactored and Containerized core services of the printers software.

Nov 2019 – Dec 2021 | East Stroudsburg, PA

Contributed to the development of an Android Application, focused on enhancing situational awareness for military/medical operations in real-time environments, improving decision-making and operational effectiveness.
Traveled for field testing, ensuring that the application met performance and reliability standards in live scenarios.
Performed troubleshooting and bug fixes during field tests, delivering solutions under tight timelines to enhance software performance and reliability.
Leveraged hardware acceleration using OpenCL and CUDA, significantly reducing runtime for critical algorithms, improving the efficiency of resource-intensive processes.

Languages: Bash, Python, Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, Java, GoLang, C/C++, Rust, Lua
Cloud: Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo Suite, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Grafana, ELK (Opensearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Development: Git, Docker, React, Vue, Tailwind, FastAPI, Django, Celery, Dramatiq, Android SDK, ReactiveX, OpenCL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Atlassian Suite
Security: Firewall, IAM, GuardDuty, SecurityHub, CloudWatch, Keycloak, Sonarqube, Fortify, Trivy