Available for Senior DevOps roles
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 18+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure across cloud and bare-metal environments. Specializes in infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform), Kubernetes orchestration (EKS, self-hosted kubeadm), and full-lifecycle deployment automation (SaltStack, Puppet). Proven track record managing 200+ node environments at Edgio and Oro, and architecting petabyte-scale data infrastructure at Hydrolix. Hands-on across AWS, GCP, and Linode, with deep observability expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
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Experience
Hydrolix
Senior DevOps Engineer- Architected and operate a Kubernetes-based real-time data lakehouse on AWS (EKS, S3, IAM) for petabyte-scale streaming ingest and query workloads across 3+ regions
- Own infrastructure-as-code with Pulumi and Terraform; codify multi-region cluster provisioning, autoscaling, and tenant isolation
- Built observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and SLO-based alerting across ingest, query, and control-plane services
- Evolved CI/CD on GitLab CI / GitHub Actions: progressive delivery, image signing, container and IaC security scanning
- Drive platform reliability, capacity planning, cost optimization, security hardening, and incident response
Edgio
Senior DevOps Engineer- Designed and implemented end-to-end deployment automation with SaltStack across 200+ nodes and 10+ products, reducing deployment time by 3-5x and eliminating manual release steps
- Standardized CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI / Jenkins for Dev and QA teams, enabling consistent, repeatable delivery across all product lines
- Built internal tooling and utilities to support platform operations, reducing toil and accelerating incident response
- Owned pre-release and release coordination for production environments, improving release predictability and reducing rollback frequency
Oro
Senior DevOps Engineer- Managed and evolved configuration management for 200+ servers using Puppet, maintaining platform stability across a large-scale e-commerce infrastructure
- Incrementally automated legacy deployment processes, replacing manual procedures with reproducible Puppet manifests and Bash tooling
- Built and maintained an RPM packaging pipeline, standardizing artifact delivery across development, staging, and production environments
- Participated in pre-release validation and production releases, contributing to platform reliability over a 9-year tenure
Personal Projects
Self-Hosted Infrastructure (Home Lab)
- Deployed and maintain a bare-metal virtualization platform on Proxmox VE with KVM/QEMU: VM provisioning, lifecycle, and resource management
- Built standardized Linux server templates for fast, repeatable VM provisioning; operate a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster bootstrapped with kubeadm
- Running multi-tenant monitoring SaaS (monitoring.dvsoftware.net): FastAPI + JWT, PostgreSQL, Prometheus Pushgateway, Grafana Multi-Org, Traefik SSL
- Self-hosted LLM stack: Ollama + Open WebUI + LiteLLM proxy + Traefik v3 with Qwen2.5-Coder:32b as primary coding model
- MikroTik-based network with VLANs, 4G/LTE failover, PCQ bandwidth management, and a Telegram bot for dynamic firewall access control
Certifications
AWS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Issued Dec 2022 · ID: AWS03207104