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# Paul Montag - Software Engineer

Lead Software engineer who enjoys building strong teams specializing in golang development, Linux and Kubernetes administration, and Observability. 

## Employment

### Target - Minneapolis, MN

#### Lead Engineer <sub>2019 - present</sub>

- Work with engineers throughout Target to better understand observability tooling
- Manage replicated dataset with Petabytes of data, and billions of transactions daily
- Manage highly resilient, zonal aware Clickhouse architecture in Kubernetes
- Maintain Elasticsearch, Influx, Grafana architectures on VMware with ansible
- Lead small team of engineers through various initiatives utilizing Agile methodology
- Present talks within Target to create a culture of observability, and desired engineering practices
- Create highly performant, specialized applications in golang to manage observability data

### ISeeMe - Eden Prairie, MN

#### Software Engineering Manager 2016 - 2019
- Part of leadership team at ISeeMe to define year and quarterly rocks
- Lead small team of engineers in completing rocks
- Managed AWS billing
- Lead Agile ceremonies
- Maintained responsibilities from software engineer position

#### Software Engineer 2015 - 2016
- Develop new features in PHP and Golang for personalized books
- Maintain Linux (Ubuntu) servers for running personalization software
- Maintain Magento web store
- Maintain Kubernetes cluster utilizing AWS and bare metal (at printing locations)

### Meta 13 Interactive - St Cloud, MN

#### Web Programmer 2012 – 2015
- Designed database structures using MSSQL and MySQL
- Used existing frameworks to create applications for clients
- Created custom frameworks using object oriented and procedural PHP
- Used source control software such as Git and Mercurial
- Communicated with clients to plan applications and discuss updates and regular maintenance
- Created HTML and CSS using custom code as well as frameworks like Bootstrap
- Worked both individually and with a team of developers to complete projects
- Configured Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Linux servers as well as MSSQL and IIS on Windows servers


## Skills

<sub>Languages: Golang, Rust, bash, javascript, HTML, CSS, YAML, JSON, python, awk</sub>

<sub>Tools: Ansible, git, github, Kubernetes, KubeBuilder, Argocd, Helm, kafka, elasticsearch, Clickhouse, influxdb, vim, helix, delve, chef, mercurial, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, ChatGPT, Copilot, Burrow, BPFTrace, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, GCP, AWS</sub>

## Education

 **Saint Cloud Technical College** _(Saint Cloud, MN 2008 – 2010)_ Associate of Applied Science Degree in Computer Programming

## Contact

- Blog: [https://blog.paulmontag.info/](https://blog.paulmontag.info/)
- Github: [https://github.com/d1ngd0](https://github.com/d1ngd0)