Drew Ayling

Leading the automation architecture team to re-architect existing test frameworks to align newly acquired product’s delivery with the larger Teladoc org to reduce automation duplication and scale product delivery.

Leading an automation guild to present vision, intent, best practices, and architectural runway for testing and automation.

Created automated tooling to connect Teladoc’s automated test cases with TestRail’s test case management software to measure requirements and functional coverage. Contributing to open source projects to support this effort.

Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.

Creating and maintaining test automation libraries for Livongo (Chronic Care Management) (acquired by Teladoc in 2020) products including web, mobile, backend, and ETL.

Launched the CircleCI Developer Hub, a K8s microsite for CircleCI assets (Docker images and CI integrations), as a full-stack developer in React and Go.

Created and maintained CI libraries for dozens of languages and frameworks, e.g. Ruby, GKE, Python, Terraform, used by thousands of runs daily.

Supported open source community Docker images spanning various languages and frameworks, e.g. Python, Ruby, Android, Selenium, for use on CircleCI, each being used in almost 100,000 runs a week.

Worked with partner organizations and customers to create and maintain their own CI libraries for CircleCI, ranging from go-to-market assistance to paired programming with partner company developers.

Primary lead on restructuring CircleCI sample apps and configuration files to improve CircleCI onboarding experience.

Architected transition of 1000+ test cases from legacy framework to new automated CI driven testing framework.

Architected new continuous integration and delivery process to parallelize system value delivery, remove circular dependencies and decreased build and test time by a factor of 4.

Architected end to end container and Kubernetes based serverless testing solution for disparate disconnected system tests that removed hundreds of manual hours for each release.

Coached other system architects in scaled agile best practices to enable predictable planning by reducing lead time in exploration phase by 75%.

Architected organizational value stream alignment with other system architects and SAFe practitioners to restructure the teams around value in order to increase delivery to the customer by a factor of 6.

Led software test team in developing complex automated tests and test cases for core SolidFire product features in python and pytest

Scrum master, architect and product owner for re-architecture of internal legacy automation python code base

Automated systems administration tasks such as system monitoring, report generation, code deployment, package management, and server maintenance

Designed and developed REST API SDK for external test case management software for use across multiple teams.

Assisted in standards development for a SOAP / UDP-multicast / UDP-syslog based communications architecture for US Army ground combat vehicles known as VICTORY

Software team lead for the Army’s Industry Network Integration Evaluation Demonstration to provide VICTORY Capabilities in an operational environment

Project Manager for a $50k internal research project to develop cost effective, micro embedded VICTORY adapters

Led software validation experiments developing software components to demonstrate VICTORY Specifications.

Assisted in system integration for US Army field demo of situation awareness vehicle

Assistant project manager and engineer for a combat vehicle high performance video bus architecture.