Peter Simpson
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Iowa State University
1989 : 1990
Work across teams to review and update processes and corporate tech policies to fit our needs and streamline our growth.
Head the company CyberGovernance committee to ensure accountability, visibility, and that we steer our efforts into actions that ensure our high-priority projects get the attention they need without causing any smaller yet important projects to go without.
Investigate, negotiate, and provide the workforce with tools that allow them to securely work with PHI and PPI.
Manage the inventory of corporate assets from laptops to servers and colocation services.
Evaluate and incorporate third-party evaluation and penetration testing into our controls.
2021 : Present
Ellipsis Health
Information Security Officer
Develop experimental systems to investigate potential avenues for growth. Evaluate corporate security measures, practices and processes and assist in steering corporate policy toward greater security and maturity. Do the necessary, from clerical to coding to inter-corporate communications, in order to help ensure we stay a well-oiled machine.
2021 : 2021
Ellipsis Health
Senior Software Development Engineer, Special Projects
Extend and enhance the Amazon Search backend, developing new regions and features. Improve customer experience by enabling features matching customers with more-relevant products and services. Examine feature design proposals, determine impact on infrastructure, and provide suggestions for improvement. Provide both customer- and seller-facing teams an internal escalation path for fast resolution of high-importance, high-visibility, or high-difficulty issues.
2016 : 2019
A9.com
Software Development Engineer
As a Sr. DevOps engineer, developed and automated processes for deployment and security of core systems on multiple cloud platform providers. Helped design blue-green deployment mechanism, reducing maintenance downtime and improving stability of upgrade path. Worked across teams to perform use-case analysis, creating highly-customized virtual environments utilized by internal and external customers alike.
2015 : 2016
Illumio
MTS
Design, develop and maintain libraries and applications within the Tools and Reporting team of Global Ad Operations.
Utilize Hadoop and Pig grid technologies to uncover trends and provide succinct and tailored views into the raw data behind our organization.
2007 : 2015
Yahoo! Inc.
Senior Technical Yahoo
Skills
Agile Methodologies, Apache, Apache Pig, Automation, C, C++, Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Systems, Hadoop, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python, REST, Ruby, Scalability, Shell Scripting, Software, Software Development, Software Engineering, Splunk, Subversion, Unix, Web Applications, Web Services, XML
About
Software systems developer with broad range of technological skills, experience and know-how. Highly effective in matrix, tiger team or individual development environment. Interested in exploring new concepts, fleshing out implementation designs and bringing them into reality.
Specialties: Hadoop/Pig, Internet technologies from IP to PHP, System and Network Security, Linux and Windows application development and maintenance, Optical storage.
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