Nathan Tarr

Nathan Tarr

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ABOUT ME
Software Engineer
Software Engineer

I am a talented Software Engineer with additional experience as a Test Analyst and DevOps Engineer. I currently work on deploying to k8s clusters using Helm, managing Azure infrastructure using Terraform and develop automation using Python, TypeScript and bash shell scripts in GitLab pipelines. My capabilities also cover code review of Go services and test automation using Java frameworks

English
Sydney (+11:00)
Joined October 2017
EXPERTISE
10 years experience
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1 year experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(50 reviews)
Jennifer
Jennifer
January 2020
Continued quality and reliable work from Nathan
Jennifer
Jennifer
March 2019
Continued great work from Nathan. Highly recommended.
Michael Sutherfield
Michael Sutherfield
February 2019
drew out truth tables and helped me with the logic gates
Jennifer
Jennifer
January 2019
Nathan consistently does great work, which is why I continue to recommend him. Hire him, you will be very pleased with his work.
Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley
December 2018
Amazing! Absolutely patient with new and not new users. Very informative and explains everything well! Would recommend this mentor to everyone! Very knowledgeable and takes whatever curve ball thrown his way and handles it very professionally, fast, and explains all in great detail. Thank you very much!
Richard Hoang
Richard Hoang
December 2018
Nathan was great at keeping me updated on the status of our freelance job/project. He works quickly and was very knowledgable on the subject. I am very happy with the result and solution that Nathan delivered.
ALI A
ALI A
December 2018
The best one and my favirote expert
Omar
Omar
December 2018
Very patient and knowledgeable! Clearly explains things
David
David
December 2018
Excellent unit testing skills and made all tests successfully pass. Thanks.
Kim Sun
Kim Sun
September 2018
I can't thank enough, Nathan. His work is much appreciated. He thoroughly explained and made sure that I understood the explained concepts and guided in finding solutions for the tasks. He also has spent more time than expected. Highly RECOMMEND!!!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
navigationtask
PyEPL Town Navigation Project
Python
3
1
wiremock-bean
Wiremock Bean on WAR deployment
Java
0
0
EMPLOYMENTS
Software Engineer - DevOps
Hivery
2022-10-01-Present
  • Exposure to Databricks and Python notebooks to automate training of machine learning models
  • Develop documentation to set ...
  • Exposure to Databricks and Python notebooks to automate training of machine learning models
  • Develop documentation to set up VScode profile to improve developer experience
  • Integrate semantic versioning in GitLab pipelines to automatically increment versions of k8s services developed in Go, Rust and Python based on commit history (wrote a custom semantic release plugin in TypeScript)
  • Create Dynamic Pipelines in GitLab to deploy Docker images to Azure Container Registry and run unit tests for Rust, Golang and Python.
  • Manage Azure infrastructure resources using Terraform
  • Manage deployments for Azure AKS (k8s clusters using Istio Mesh for network) for local, development, staging and production environments using kubectl, Helm
  • Monitor Infrastructure using OpenLens and Datadog observability platform
  • Develop Python scripts with Plotly to analyze and visualize trends in data from database, and genarate charts to visualize and compare response time metrics from performance tests
Python
Bash
GitHub
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Python
Bash
GitHub
TypeScript
GitLab
Kubernetes
Terraform
Software Quality Assurance
Plotly
Go
Helm
VS Code
Databricks
DevOps
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Software Engineer
Objective Corporation Limited
2015-08-01-2022-10-01
  • Focus on quality of software components being developed including documentation
  • Demonstrate ability to work on new and ex...
  • Focus on quality of software components being developed including documentation
  • Demonstrate ability to work on new and existing code and integrate with software written by other teams
  • Develop web-service based test utilities to allow easier testing of specific types of software interfaces such as CORBA
  • Use of IntelliJ and Eclipse development tools
  • Act as mentor to help introduce new team member to development conventions and set up of development environnent
  • In addition to coding skills, continue to provide automated and manual infrastructure support using Docker and VMWare ESXi to provide extra benefit to team
  • Development of email seeding framework using Exchange Web Services API
  • Java 8 SE Programming
  • Test NG unit testing
  • Creation of Maven projects and releasing of artifacts
  • Artifact deployment in Artifactory
  • Code reviews using Git merge requests in GitLab CI
  • Java EE and Java Dependency Injection using Weld
  • Improve BDD test reporting using JBehave
  • Provide technical assessment of software bugs
  • Design of algorithms to towards solving problems and meeting requirements
SQL
Unit Testing
Java EE
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SQL
Unit Testing
Java EE
TestNG
Vagrant
Docker
Microsoft SQL Server
Kubernetes
Azure SQL
WildFly 8
Jersey (jax Rs)
Hamcrest
Helm
Restassured
Hibernate ORM
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Junior DevOps Engineer
Objective Corporation Limited
2013-08-01-2015-08-01
  • Execution of Powershell and Python automation scripts from Bamboo
  • Deliver test virtual computing environments on VMware E...
  • Execution of Powershell and Python automation scripts from Bamboo
  • Deliver test virtual computing environments on VMware ESX Server and Amazon Web Services for software testing efforts
  • Develop Python library to control virtual machine state including power state, taking and reverting snapshots in VMware ESX Server and Amazon EC2
  • Using silent install in deployment of software
Python
Linux
PowerShell
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Python
Linux
PowerShell
Jira
Puppet
Bamboo
VMware ESXi
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PROJECTS
3D Navigation ExperimentView Project
2009
Python
Data
Research
Python
Data
Research
Senior Services GuideView Project
2017
Assisted client as freelancer to maintain website hosted on Google Cloud Platform using Google App Engine with Python and integration wit...
Assisted client as freelancer to maintain website hosted on Google Cloud Platform using Google App Engine with Python and integration with other Google applications.
HTML/CSS
Python
Google App Engine
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HTML/CSS
Python
Google App Engine
Google Analytics
Google Cloud Platform
Boilerplate
Google apis
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