Staff Nate Allen

Accomplishments

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Developed two Django (Python) web applications for the ODU Computer Science Department. • Lobby Display: Hosted on a touchscreen display at two locations in ODU, this application displays a visual directory for ODU’s CS Department. Professors login via LDAP to the portal and customize their profile.

• Consultant Scheduler: A system to keep track of coworkers' scheduled work hours. Requires consultants to enter their class hours, then choose their preferred work schedule. The system cross-checks the class schedule and ensures a minimum number of consultants are on schedule at once. Displayed with a Bootstrap5 frontend.

IT • Implemented an ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana cluster) to monitor the uptime of 300+ clients in 4 different computer labs. Utilized Metricbeat and Heartbeat data shippers. • Practiced customer service using a ticketing system to troubleshoot issues. • Administer 1000+ client large-scale Windows and Unix Environment • Completed learning projects in Linux/Windows servers, highly-available hosting, networking, and Django web app development.

RESEARCH • Is it safer at the beach? Spatial and temporal analyses... Coded a Python script to periodically scrape video and save frames from a live webcam stream of a beach. The pictures and video were then analyzed using GIS software and open-source tools to measure the level of social distancing. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105533 Code: GitHub Repo

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CYBERSECURITY, OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY, NORFOLK, 08/2021 – IN PROGRESS GPA: 3.65; Related Studies: Unix for Programmers; Object Oriented Programming/Design; Music Recording.

ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE: COMPUTER SCIENCE, TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, NORFOLK, GRADUATION MAY 2021 GPA: 4.0; Summa Cum Laude; President’s Honor Role; Phi Theta Kappa; Related Studies; Calculus; Data Structures and Algorithms.

HS DIPLOMA, NEW SUMMIT ACADEMY, COSTA RICA, GRADUATED 2014 GPA: 3.75; Graduated from a study abroad program in CR, where I lived for a year and was exposed to the culture.

HARD SKILLS

Linux environments (Ubuntu Server, Debian): Knowledgeable in package management, building from source, IPTables firewall, NFS, job schedulers and systemd unit files, bash scripting, web hosting, SSH Keys and SSL Encryption, and regular expressions.

Databases: MySQL, SQLite.

DevOps: Docker containers, GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

Windows/Windows Server 2016-2019: Experience in administering a Domain Controller, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and PowerShell. Package management with Chocolatey. Experience adding LDAP login capability to web apps

Programming Languages: Advanced Python 3 and C++. Experience with HTML, Jinja2 Templates, and ORMs. Basic experience with SQL, JavaScript.

Automation: Experience in orchestration and automating tasks using Ansible. Deployment of websites using CI/CD pipelines and shell scripts over SSH.

Virtualization: Experience with oVirt engine, VirtualBox, and VMWare.

Research: Experience in web scraping, formatting, and filtering data using Python.

Networking: Basic knowledge of IP addressing, OSI, TCP/IP models, and troubleshooting networking issues with CLI programs.

Monitoring:

• ELK Stacks:  Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana:
• Data Shippers: MQTT protocol, Heartbeat, Metricbeat, Filebeat,
• Thingsboard IoT Dashboard

Version Control: Gitlab and GitHub.

IDE/Text Editors: Prefer Visual Studio for C++ and VS Code for Python and Linux remote development.