Ashton Honnecke - Curriculum Vitae

Subject Matter Expert: Python, boto3, Bash, containerization, best practices, linting, unit testing

• Chaired cross-team best-practices group (OO, SOLID, etc..); mentored devs to raise security and code quality.
• Authored ADRs for event-driven/serverless and serverful (Fargate) architectures.
• Wrote incident playbooks (classification → resolution → blameless post-mortems).
• Built internal tooling: hot Lambda mounting, quick SNS inspection, ticket↔Git integration → sharply reduced iteration time in cloud-native workflows. (See FOSS Utilities.)g
• Delivered artifact build pipeline cutting build time and cost.
• Worked on edge devices, packet sniffing, and hardware↔cloud integration.
• Identified/decommissioned unused AWS resources via Cost Explorer → up to ~30% infra savings.
• Drove self-hosted SonarQube rollout → increased visibility, >50% unit-test coverage gains across languages.
• Built NRT (low-latency/high-throughput) OBU ingress on Lambda/SQS/SNS with horizontal scale.

Subject Matter Expert: Python, Linux, CircleCI, Lambda, Google BigQuery, smart contracts, ETH/BTC nodes

• Built Python microservices to extract on-chain data directly from cloud nodes (low-latency ingest; pandas; scheduled CloudWatch Events).
• Implemented Lambda + API Gateway microservices for cryptographic decoding; very high throughput.
• Ingestion pipelines on S3/CloudWatch/Lambda/ECS processing 100 GB nightly (30 GB files).
• Added TOTP MFA (Django/React) and hardened containerized node stacks per environment.
• “Fan-out” CI with CircleCI to parallelize PR tests; standardized unit testing & linting; containerized stacks.
• Automated dependency PRs w/ integration checks for external-API clients.
• Built centralized unhandled-exception capture/logging; added uptime monitoring.
• Mentored junior devs; supported on-call (VictorOps, OpsGenie).
• Reworked deploys into single “push-button” scripts.

Subject Matter Expert: Linux, Git, SDLC, data modeling_

• Designed horizontally scalable queued-ingest system: 7M+ rows/day from 25+ sources, 15 formats.
• Built decoupled pipelines: raw retention (traceability) → transform/validate/store → external API; added faceted fuzzy search.
• Planned migration CakePHP2→CakePHP3 by refactoring into OO components/behaviors for testability.

Subject Matter Expert: Linux, PHP, SQL, data modeling, SDLC, pentesting, Git, SSH

• Led architecture and SDLC improvements across web properties and data systems.

Subject Matter Expert: Linux, PHP/JS, SQL, SDLC, pentesting, Git, SSH

• Built an MVC framework for Apache Cordova (JavaScript) for hybrid mobile deployments.
• Long-running consulting across a broad tech stack and client needs.

Subject Matter Expert: PayPal/credit-card payments, internal tooling_

• Created Propel-like model code-generation system with unit tests.
• Migrated raw PHP pages to an MVC framework for internal tools: payments, reconciliation, widgets.
• Owned payments & internal tooling for account management/legal processing.
• Introduced CI and unit testing; mentored engineers on design and integration.
• Built AJAX status/exception display system for consistent UX and surfaced DB exceptions (AJAX was new and cool at the time)

• Hot-mount Lambda filesystems for rapid iteration; “hot reloading.”
• https://pypi.org/project/consolo/

• Fast SNS topic/message inspection from the CLI.
• https://pypi.org/project/snifter/

• Git/Jira helper: find tickets, create matching branches, enforce branch hygiene.
• https://pypi.org/project/jolly-brancher/

• Emphasis: Accounting

• Minors: Mathematics, Philosophy

• Art car (2015): https://biodieseldirigible.honnecke.us/?c=big-wheel
• “Places” installation (2015): https://biodieseldirigible.honnecke.us/?c=homura-sansui