Brett D Bourquin
Principal Software Architect
About
Brett 'twas born and raised in Arkansas. He earned a Computer Science Degree from Arkansas Tech University with an emphasis in Language Design. He is know for his high-energy, confidence , and infectious enthusiasm for technology. On his off time he enjoys indie games, playing with his children,loving his wife, and messing around with frameworks on his raspberry pi(s).
Experience
Walmart Stores Incorporated
Cloud Powered Organization, working on cloud native services for developers
- Managed Servlet Platform for Java Servlet Applications
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation
- Cloud Native Infrastructure Services and Automations
Walmart Stores Incorporated
Cloud Powered Organization, working on platform services for developers
- OneOps Tomcat pack owner
- API Management w/DataPower Appliances
Arkansas National Guard, US Army
1-142nd Field Artillery HQ/C/B Batteries
- 16 month tour Iraq with C Battery (Winter 2005-Spring 2007)[Operation Iraqi Freedom]
Education
Arkansas Tech University
Free Code Camp
Volunteer
Pug Rescue of Northwest Arkansas
Provide guidance on fostering and placement of pugs as well as organize events and fundraising efforts
- Fostered 20+ pugs
- Fail-fostered 'Nemo'
- Helped create the dns for 'pugrescuenwa.com'
- Tech support for the organization
Boy Scouts of America
Provide guidance and leadership to a Den of cub scouts and take meeting notes at committee meetings
- Youth Protection Trained
- Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Trained
Skills
- Shell Script
- JVM
- Puppet
- Vagrant
- Ansible
- Enterprise Docker Image Maintainer
- Shell Script
- Chef
- Ruby
- OpenStack
- Azure
- Spring
- Maven
- JUnit
- Jenkins
- 1.7
- 1.8
- 11
- Item Creator
- Jelly
- Glide
- CMS
- Rack n' Stack of Hardware
- Networking
- FIPS 140-2 Compliance and Configuration
- SOMA API Calling and Scripting
Languages
Interests
- The Phoenix Project [In Progress]
- Accelerate [Done]
- Daily Coding Problem