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anissa tawiah

@anissatawiah

DevOps Engineer at The Athletic building AWS tooling used by 12 teams and ~100 developers to provision environments in hours, not days.

United States

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At The Athletic, I manage the AWS environment for the NYT sports section and helped migrate a legacy web app to a modern architecture. I built reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows now used by 12 teams and about 100 developers, cutting provisioning from days to a few hours.

I also led an AWS network migration of four VPCs into the NYT parent account and defined Datadog alerts that page on-call through PagerDuty, reducing false alerts by a quarter. I cut cloud spend by 15% and worked on moving the production MySQL database from RDS to Aurora.

Previously, I moved 50+ teams from on-prem to AWS at Anthem and built Terraform, Ansible, and Python automation across my DevOps and SRE roles. At Logikcull, I patched hundreds of instances with zero downtime; at Attentive Mobile, I automated new-team access setup so it took an hour instead of days.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Engineer

Current

The Athletic (A New York Times Company)

Oct 2023 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Managed the AWS cloud environment for the NYT sports section, migrating a legacy web app to a modern architecture one component at a time. Administered the AWS environment end to end, cutting cloud spend 15%, and built reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows used by 12 teams.

AWS AWS ECS Fargate RDS IAM Terraform GitHub Actions MySQL Aurora Datadog PagerDuty Route 53 TLS SSL VPN

Site Reliability Engineer

Logikcull

Feb 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 6 months)

SRE for a customers-first B2B legal tech SaaS, managing infrastructure, uptime and security in an AWS environment. Wrote Ansible playbooks that patched hundreds of instances across 3 high-volume fleets with zero downtime, and built hardened images and runbooks.

Ansible AWS Linux Elasticsearch MongoDB Artifactory Snyk Nessus SOC2 Intercom Run Books

DevOps Engineer

Attentive Mobile

Dec 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 1 month)

Database and infrastructure admin, building and managing services with Terraform, at a fast-growing B2B SaaS company. Kept the team library of reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts, owned the onboarding process, and ran self-hosted Kubernetes on AWS.

Terraform Helm Kubernetes AWS Python IAM Prometheus Grafana Linux

CloudOps Engineer

Anthem

Nov 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year)

Migrated teams from on-prem to AWS for a large, HIPAA-regulated health insurer. Trained, migrated and provisioned 50+ internal teams on AWS with Terraform, and wrote Bash scripts and Python Lambdas for account setup and cleanup.

AWS Terraform BASH Python Lambda HIPAA Networking CIDRs