Summary
Highly accomplished Infrastructure Engineer with 6 years of experience specializing in designing, implementing, and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, automating deployment pipelines, and optimizing system performance across AWS environments. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust and cost-effective solutions that support business growth and operational efficiency.
Experience
Senior Infrastructure EngineerSalesforce
- Led the migration of critical on-premise services to AWS, reducing operational costs by 20% and improving system uptime to 99.99%.
- Developed and maintained IaC templates using Terraform for over 50 AWS resources, enabling automated provisioning and configuration management.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI for infrastructure deployments, cutting release cycles by 30% and minimizing human error.
- Optimized AWS resource utilization through right-sizing instances and implementing auto-scaling policies, resulting in a 15% reduction in monthly cloud spend.
- Designed and deployed a centralized logging and monitoring solution using ELK stack and Prometheus, enhancing incident response time by 25%.
Infrastructure EngineerSlack
- Managed and provisioned cloud infrastructure across AWS, supporting over 100 microservices for a platform with millions of daily active users.
- Automated routine infrastructure tasks using Python and Bash scripting, saving approximately 15 hours of manual effort per week.
- Collaborated with development teams to integrate infrastructure provisioning into application deployment workflows, reducing environment setup time by 40%.
- Maintained and improved Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration, ensuring high availability and scalability for critical services.
- Participated in on-call rotation to troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, achieving an average MTTR of under 30 minutes.
Projects
Terraform AWS Module Library
- Developed a collection of reusable Terraform modules for common AWS resources (VPC, EC2, S3), reducing infrastructure setup time by 50% for new projects.
- Implemented automated testing and linting pipelines for modules using Terratest and tflint, ensuring high quality and consistency.
Home Kubernetes Cluster
- Deployed and managed a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis for personal learning and hosting various services (Plex, Grafana, Home Assistant).
- Gained hands-on experience with Helm charts, persistent volumes, and network policies in a realistic small-scale environment.
Python Cloud Cost Optimizer
- Authored a Python script utilizing AWS Boto3 to analyze resource tags and usage patterns, identifying potential cost savings.
- Generated monthly reports highlighting idle resources and recommended actions, leading to an estimated 10-12% theoretical cost reduction.
Education
Stanford UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science
- Thesis on 'Optimizing Container Orchestration for Cloud-Native Applications'.
- Awarded Dean's Fellowship for academic excellence.
- GPA: 3.9/4.0
Skills
Cloud Platforms
AWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Azure
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
TerraformCloudFormationAnsiblePacker
CI/CD & DevOps Tools
JenkinsGitLab CIDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafana
Scripting & Programming
PythonBashGoYAML
Operating Systems & Networking
Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)Windows ServerVPCDNSLoad Balancing