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Senior Platform and DevOps Engineer driving developer velocity through secure, scalable cloud and MLOps systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer with 10+ years designing and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure, internal developer platforms, and MLOps systems. I’ve consistently improved developer velocity, reduced operational incidents, and optimized cloud cost across multi-region, high-availability environments.
At Duolingo, I led the architecture and delivery of a company-wide internal developer platform supporting 100+ microservices—reducing deployment lead time by 50%+ and doubling deployment frequency. I built a self-service EKS (Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), developed internal CLI tooling (~80%+ adoption), implemented secure multi-tenant Kubernetes with RBAC/IAM/Vault and policy enforcement (OPA), and standardized observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Datadog) with SLO dashboards and alerting pipelines, cutting incidents by 40–50%. I also delivered an end-to-end MLOps platform (Kafka, Spark, Kubeflow, feature store, model serving), reducing model deployment time from months to days, and led FinOps initiatives (Graviton, spot, resource tagging) to reduce cloud costs by 10–30%.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led architecture and delivery of Duolingo’s internal developer platform for 100+ microservices, reducing deployment lead time by 50%+ and doubling deployment frequency. Built a self-service EKS platform with Terraform, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions, improving productivity (~80%+) and reducing incidents by 40–50%; also delivered an end-to-end MLOps platform and drove FinOps savings of 10–30%.
Modernized and migrated hybrid infrastructure to scalable cloud-native architecture, reducing environment setup time from hours to minutes. Built Terraform modules and automated provisioning pipelines, implemented CI/CD with strong release safety/rollback, and improved monitoring and incident response to reduce MTTR.
Contributed to ECS container platform infrastructure, focusing on networking (awsvpc) and service discovery via Route 53. Built infrastructure automation for ECS clusters with VPC and IAM roles, implemented CI/CD with CodePipeline/CodeBuild, and improved monitoring/alerting with CloudWatch.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2012 - 2016
Earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from 2012 to 2016.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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