Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a variety of impactful projects and contribute to significant improvements in system reliability and development workflows. Here are some highlights:

At Paylocity (formerly Airbase):

  • Ensuring production services consistently meet their SLAs, maintaining high availability for thousands of customers.
  • Managing daily deployments to production servers, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
  • Maintaining and optimizing the CI/CD infrastructure, specifically focusing on GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on AWS.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving complex platform issues, including those related to Postgres, Redis, Heroku dynos, and DNS.
  • Actively working to improve developer productivity through metric-driven optimizations and close collaboration with development teams.

At Equinix:

  • Responsible for maintaining a 99.9% Service Level Objective (SLO) for service uptime.
  • Managed over 2000 repositories on GitHub, ensuring efficient code management.
  • Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines (using Jenkins) for over 200 microservices running on 4000+ servers.
  • Maintained Rancher (Kubernetes) clusters, ensuring robust container orchestration.
  • Automated numerous daily tasks using Python, Bash, and Ansible, significantly improving operational efficiency.

At Quaero:

  • Designed and implemented critical CI/CD processes that directly impacted business outcomes.
  • Optimized AWS usage, leading to a 30% reduction in monthly bills.
  • Led a team focused on SLA-driven processes, resulting in maximum service uptime.
  • Applied comprehensive DevOps knowledge across all four pillars: Build & Release Management, Software Configuration Management, Environment Management, and Tools Integration.
  • Worked on cloud infrastructure automation and environment provisioning for Development, Test, and other environments.
  • Mentored and delegated tasks within the team, participating in project planning, estimation, scheduling, and management.
  • Responsible for deploying and maintaining multiple installations on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Automated most cloud practices, reducing delivery time.
  • Designed and implemented an Upgrade Framework in Python for seamless updates and patches.

Other Notable Contributions:

  • Implemented Kubernetes solutions across major cloud providers.
  • Utilized Terraform for infrastructure provisioning automation.
  • Leveraged Ansible for deployment process automation.
  • Significantly reduced overall Time-To-Deliver from days to hours.
  • Co-authored “Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp” on Udemy as a Premium Instructor.
  • Managed multiple DevOps projects for customers, understanding their needs and advising on best practices.
  • Worked with both public and private cloud environments.
  • Supported AWS infrastructures and performed Linux administration.
  • Converted Python/Django monoliths into microservices.
  • Used ECS and ECR for Docker image storage and deployment.
  • Contributed to creating a cloud-agnostic product, enabling portability between AWS, GCP, and Azure.