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Code Elevate

@codeelevate

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Innovative Lead DevOps Engineer with expertise in cloud infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role that fosters innovation, encourages collaboration, and offers opportunities for professional growth.

I am an innovative and results-driven Lead DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of experience in architecting scalable cloud infrastructure and leading high-performing SRE/DevOps teams. My expertise lies in driving automation across AWS, Azure, and GCP, where I have successfully built self-service CI/CD platforms and implemented observability systems. I am passionate about championing DevSecOps practices and have a proven track record of reducing deployment times and improving reliability.

Throughout my career, I have excelled at translating business goals into resilient technical solutions that accelerate product delivery and enhance system uptime. I have led high-impact DevOps/SRE teams, mentored engineers, and fostered a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. My experience includes managing significant cloud budgets and achieving substantial cost savings through strategic initiatives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Lead DevOps Engineer

Docker

Feb 2021 - Mar 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Spearheaded the DevOps transformation roadmap for a multi-cloud SaaS platform serving 10M+ users, enabling zero-downtime releases and 4x faster deployment cycles. Managed a global team of 6+ engineers, designed infrastructure platforms using Terraform and Kubernetes, and implemented alerting pipelines to reduce MTTR by 60%. Oversaw a $1.5M cloud budget achieving 30% cost savings.

Terraform Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana GitOps DevSecOps SLOs IaC Incident Management

Senior DevOps Engineer

Zapier

Jan 2017 - Feb 2021 (4 years 1 month)

Acted as DevOps SME during a cloud-native replatforming project, moving 150+ apps to AWS & Azure. Led reliability engineering initiatives, designed CI/CD pipelines, and built a centralized observability stack. Mentored junior engineers and drove internal sessions on IaC and container security.

AWS Azure CI CD Jenkins ELK Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes Incident Management

DevOps Engineer / Systems Admin

KITE

Apr 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 9 months)

Championed the shift from legacy VM provisioning to full IaC using Ansible and Terraform. Built and maintained load-balanced NGINX clusters, automated tool deployments, and implemented version-controlled infrastructure using Git. Designed internal documentation to streamline onboarding.