Jason Kuehl

Jason Kuehl

Manager Infrastructure Engineering

About Me

I began work in the industry as a teenager in Wisconsin and moved to Boston four years ago where I began to use data center experience in cloud environments. I have a colocation at a data center in Somerville to keep learning and practicing new emerging technologies.

Contact Information

Email: jason.w.kuehl@gmail.com

Phone: (920) 419-8983

Location: Somerville, MA, USA

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jasonwkuehl

Portfolio: jasonkuehl.com

Professional Experience

Infrastructure Manager at Rue Gilt Groupe

July 2024 - Present

  • Leading infrastructure management and cloud services.
  • Fostered an environment where new and experienced employees can grow and excel in their careers
  • Trained new employees on business processes and technologies
  • Aligned current and future projects to the needs of the business with leadership team
  • Architected all long-term roadmap projects going into 2026
  • Engineered new ESXi environments using Vmware Vsan
  • Created a plan to transition over 13 Switch stacks from Dell to Cisco

Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Rue Gilt Groupe

July 2021 - July 2024 (3 years 1 month)

  • Oversaw infrastructure projects and implemented advanced solutions in cloud environments.
  • Managed all office moves for the organization
  • Designed and led all infrastructure-related projects for the organization dealing with warehouse operations
  • Architected and rebuilt multiple warehouse networking systems, including:
  • The wireless deployment (300 Access points)
  • The core networking stack migration.
  • The vendor connectivity system for secure access to internal applications
  • Successfully moved the businesses' on-premise systems to new data centers over the course of a year
  • Created infrastructure for major warehouse vendor using s2s VPN and AWS Transit Gateway
  • Designed and led all over 8 different office upgrades/moves locations encluding the HQ

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rue Gilt Groupe

December 2018 - July 2021 (2 years 8 months)

  • Managed and optimized AWS environments and infrastructure.
  • Deployed a company-wide secure password manager service/li>
  • Designed and built a call center network to support 100 Agents
  • Built mezzanine structures to support wireless and Local LAN in our warehouse facility
  • Redesigned the warehouse IDF structures to allow for expansion
  • Authored Terraform code to maintain and improve multiple AWS environments
  • Maintained several legacy ESXI environments as we updated to the latest version

Senior DevOps Engineer at SessionM

April 2018 - December 2018 (9 months)

  • Implemented DevOps best practices and automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Built several AWS regions around the work to support the platform
  • Designed and Implemented AWS inter-region connectivity
  • Created custom VPN devices to support connectivity to other clouds
  • Built several complex Terraform modules to support fast and automated rollout into new AWS regions
  • Completed full cloud cutover to AWS, deprecating an on-premise datacenter

DevOps Engineer at SessionM

May 2016 - April 2018 (2 years)

  • Automated deployments and improved infrastructure performance.
  • Developed and deployed Terraform and Puppet code responsible for building AWS systems to run our platform
  • Designed and implemented a multi-tenant pattern to support current and future enterprise customers
  • Engineered a hybrid solution for AWS and data center connectivity
  • Resolved high-level security issues that threatened platform performance or customer data

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at CareCloud

August 2015 - May 2016 (10 months)

  • Maintained a vast AWS environment with over 2000 Linux machines and multiple databases.
  • Deployed AWS Security best practices with compliance to HIPAA regulations
  • Led infrastructure designs for new products within AWS/Vmware>
  • Maintained large VMware and AWS environment across several regions in the US/li>

Senior Network Engineer at Virgin Pulse

December 2013 - August 2015 (1 year 9 months)

  • Managed network operations, Hyper-V, and Linux/Windows environments.
  • Architected and implemented SaaS Applications in AWS
  • Maintained large-scale network infrastructure
  • Responsible for company-wide buildout of new Contact Centers
  • Coordinated deployment of new AWS environments with project leads

Network Operations Supervisor at Airadigm Communications

June 2013 - December 2013 (7 months)

  • Led network operations and managed Linux and VMware environments.
  • Managed time-sensitive large-scale projects with complex interdepartmental coordination
  • Deployed the architecture for a large VMware environment
  • Responsible for Telecom switch maintenance, support, and resolutions
  • Worked with roaming vendors to fix internet roaming issues

Network Switch Technician II at Airadigm Communications

June 2012 - June 2013 (1 year 1 month)

  • GSM Network Management and VMware ESX environment maintenance.
  • Oversaw network operations
  • Responsible for maintaining GSM high-priority traffic and routing systems
  • Deployed large VMware ESXi cluster for GSM traffic

Network Switch Technician I at Airadigm Communications

July 2010 - June 2012 (2 years)

  • Managed carrier testing and cellular network deployments.
  • Maintained VMware ESX environment, server deployments both Windows and Linux, Ericsson switch maintenance, GPRS troubleshooting, carrier testing, cellular network deployments, Cisco gear deployment, and management

Adjunct Instructor at ITT Technical Institute

June 2012 - December 2013 (1 year 7 months)

  • Taught new professionals the fundamentals of networking and the best practices for creating servers/li>
  • Worked with students to teach them the fundamentals of real-world networking and servers /li>
  • Ran the Capstone program/li>

IT Security Intern at Oshkosh Corporation

January 2010 - April 2010 (4 months)

  • Performed vulnerability assessments and maintained IDS on a corporate scale.

PC/Network Technician at Anettec INC

June 2007 - January 2010 (2 years 8 months)

  • Handled computer repair and network/server redeployments.

Education

Bachelor in Information Systems Security

2007 - 2011 (4 years)

ITT TECH Green Bay, WI

High School Diploma

2004 - 2007 (3 years)

New London High School, WI

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

March 2021

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

November 2020

Volunteer Work

Manager Of Information Technology at Artisan's Asylum, Inc.

May 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 1 month)

Managed IT operations for a non-profit makerspace, improving infrastructure and supporting a large community of makers.

IT Shop Lead at Artisan's Asylum, Inc.

May 2016 - February 2018 (1 year 10 months)

President at Artisan's Asylum, Inc.

November 2016 - April 2017 (6 months)

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