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Summary

Senior Systems Engineer with extensive experience designing, building, and operating production-grade distributed infrastructure. Specializes in infrastructure-as-code, cloud platform engineering, observability, and automation. Comfortable working across the stack — from bare-metal provisioning to developer platform tooling.

Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

Acme Cloud Corp
  • Led migration of 200+ services from self-hosted bare-metal to AWS, reducing operational toil by 60%.
  • Designed and implemented Terraform module library used across 12 product teams, enforcing security and compliance guardrails by default.
  • Built internal developer platform (IDP) enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning with full audit trails.
  • Established SLO framework and observability practices; reduced MTTR by 40% over 18 months.
  • Mentored junior and mid-level engineers, running weekly infrastructure guilds and writing architecture decision records (ADRs).

Systems Engineer II

DataLayer Inc
  • Maintained and scaled a multi-region Kubernetes platform supporting 50+ microservices.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions, cutting deployment time from hours to minutes.
  • Automated OS patching and configuration management using Ansible across 500+ nodes.
  • Contributed to on-call rotation and runbook authoring; achieved 99.95% uptime SLA.

Systems Administrator

Helix Technologies
  • Managed on-premises Linux server infrastructure for a 300-person engineering organization.
  • Automated routine tasks with Bash and Python scripts, saving ~15 hours/week of manual work.
  • Led transition from ad-hoc provisioning to Ansible-based configuration management.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, Cloudflare
Automation & Configuration
Ansible, Packer, Vault, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Languages
Python, Go, Bash, HCL, YAML
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, ELK Stack
Operating Systems
Linux (RHEL, Debian, Alpine), macOS
Networking & Security
TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, VPN, firewalls, IAM, secrets management

Education

B.S. Computer Science

State University

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate