Paul Kamis
I am a meteorologist turned software engineer turned cloud-infra engineer. Over my the last 10 years of my career, my specializations have varied. However, one thing remains true; I thoroughly enjoy playing with technology and debugging code!
Experience
Software Engineer - Core Infra
At my current position I'm excited to be on the ground floor of compute/technology adoption at SoFi, helping manage our overall compute, implement platformed services (shopping cart style managed services/apps/infra), and enable Development teams to own their destinies, without having to be experts in cloud infra, networking, or any other mundane compute concerns.
Software Engineer - Big Data Infra
Day to day management and expansion of a multi-tenent kafka cluster serving million of messages a minute. Built a first class DataLake by democratizing all data to a central location in a common, easy to access format with low latency. I also developed a set of pipelines and abstractions to make training and deploying Machine Learning models seamless for Data Scientists.
Devops Engineer
Worked on various projects including dockerizing and standardizing SFTP servers for external clients, developing/speerheading efforts to centralize Identity management both locally and in cloud, and day to day management of compute.
Devops Engineer
Help developers utilize the "infrastructure as code" nature of AWS by utilizing common sense CI/CD workflows. I've migrated web server applications from local datacenters to containerized cloud microservices. I Manage multiple AWS accounts and all associated infrastructure. My current day to day is a mixed bag of helping setup project build automation, maintaining the build infrastructure, and consulting on project architecture.
Software Engineer
Collaborated on a small team to build out a number of APIs serving meteorological data in various formats using a NGINX/UWSGI/Python-Flask stack. Built numerous data ingest/formatting pipelines for extremely large, dynamic geo-spatial/temporal datasets.
GIS Team Lead
Utilized Python and ArcGIS to design, develop, and implement live updating weather layers for ESRI platform users. Fully trained and managed team of 4 employees, coordinating development efforts, goals, and tasking.
Weather Decision Technologies
Scripted creation of climatology products for hail-fall and lightning. Assisted customers by disseminating complex meteorological information in a usable and understandable format via reports or on the phone discussion.
Education
University of Oklahoma
Green Mountain High School
Skills
Interests
When not at work, you can often find me out enjoying the natural world. My pup and I hike and backpack frequently, and have traveled and camped all over the country. I'm also a pretty avid beer enthusiast, and have yet to find anything in life that exceeds the taste of a good beer and a greasy burger after a long backpacking trip.
If I'm not outside it means I'm probably in my office playing League of Legends or hacking away at some awful piece of code to try and learn some new technology.
Projects and Publications
- I was either a primary developer or assisted in the creation/building/deployment of all of these apis .
- Meteogram-py (for fun, and to show use of this api.
The Fam
