Erik V

Part of Apple Data Platform Efficiency Team. Built automation for observability platform (Grafana/Prometheus stack), enabled migration onto platform with LLM-assisted tooling. Participated & led cross-team efforts to reduce spend on infrastructure & monitoring.

Maintained and expanded the company-wide Vault-as-a-service offering. Brought the service into the FedRAMP environment, created automation using IaC in Terraform from scratch. Monitoring with Splunk and Grafana, deployment via Jenkins to Terraform to Kubernetes in AWS.

Applied CI/CD practices to build a multi-stage cloud environment; migrated from on-prem and manually created cloud resources to a resilient, IaC-defined platform. Monitoring with Datadog, ELK stack, Elastic APM, etc. Lambda/Serverless, Terraforming cross-cloud, Groovy scripting for Jenkins. Contributed to Java Spring framework apps, implemented cloud-native features, built standards by boilerplati

Same job as current position, but involving more Intern-type tasks, like updating Jenkinsfiles and doing repository cleanup for our microservices, or diving into any outstanding issue that the Ops team didn’t have time for, like AD integration with internal tooling, or debugging old PHP apps.

At university, joined startup with professor to write a text analysis tool that could help reduce ambiguity and flag grammatical issues in requirements documents. Used Mechanical Turk for data gathering, and combined human-annotated datasets with Word2Vec as input to inference models to rate the likelihood of error/ambiguity in text. Coded mainly in Python.

Pursued a Bachelor's degree in secure application development, focusing on building secure software systems.