Career Profile
Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale. Recognized as Kubestronaut — one of a select group globally to have passed all five CNCF Kubernetes certifications. Holds 19+ industry certifications spanning Kubernetes security, GitOps, service mesh, observability, and platform engineering. Specializes in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, and site reliability engineering across cloud and on-premise environments.
Experiences
- Leading infrastructure reliability, cloud architecture, and platform engineering initiatives.
- Driving improvements to software delivery pipelines, application availability, and system automation.
- Key Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD, Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Python
- Served as Senior SRE driving improvements to software delivery pipelines and application availability.
- Key Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Python
- Improved system reliability with automated failover solutions, reducing downtime by 20%.
- Built and managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Ansible, enhancing deployment frequency by 15%.
- Spearheaded Kubernetes (EKS) migration to improve scalability and deployment workflows by 25%.
- Implemented Terraform for infrastructure codification, reducing manual errors by 30%.
- Utilized Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana for proactive monitoring, improving incident response times.
- Key Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, ArgoCD, Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Teleport, Python
- Architected IT infrastructure solutions for mission-critical applications, achieving 99.9% uptime.
- Introduced DevOps practices with Ansible and Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Enhanced application performance through resource optimization and proactive monitoring with Prometheus.
- Key Technologies: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, Scripting, Monitoring
- Led an offshore DevOps team for Kaiser Permanente, implementing IaC solutions to ensure consistent infrastructure environments.
- Integrated DevOps practices to streamline development workflows and improve release cycles using Git and Jenkins.
- Key Technologies: Linux, Jenkins, Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Splunk, Python, Bash
- Optimized middleware systems, ensuring reliable application performance across Linux environments.
- Performed Middleware administration tasks for web and application servers, reducing operational downtime by 15%.
- Key Technologies: Linux, WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache, Python, Shell Scripting
