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Tavaris Owens

@tavarisowens

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Senior platform engineer scaling AWS event-driven systems for reliable product delivery.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own platform reliability and developer velocity—building resilient, event-driven AWS systems with strong observability, thoughtful incident practices, and automation. I want to help teams ship securely and faster for data-intensive and AI-native workflows.

Senior Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering scalable integration systems, APIs,

and event-driven platforms across enterprise environments. Expertise in defining API standards, integration patterns,

and shared infrastructure that enable multiple engineering teams to build reliably. Combines deep technical authority in

cloud-native architectures with hands-on delivery of production-grade integration solutions using Java, Python, AWS,

and event streaming technologies. Drives architectural decisions, raises engineering quality through rigorous design and

code review, and champions AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate team output.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer

American Express

Nov 2022 - Apr 2026 (3 years 5 months)

Architected and scaled a multi-tenant backend platform on AWS ECS/Fargate and RDS Aurora, supporting 500+ microservices and 99.99% uptime. Led event-driven data sync pipelines, platform observability with Datadog/OpenTelemetry, and migrations to cloud-native architectures.

AWS Fargate AWS MSK (Kafka)Amazon SQS Datadog OpenTelemetry Terraform Infrastructure as Code Event Driven Architecture Observability API Gateway Authentication Tenant Isolation Elasticsearch CI CD

Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer

Walmart

Sep 2017 - Nov 2022 (5 years 2 months)

Owned reliability and scalability for Walmart’s e-commerce backend on AWS, maintaining 99.99% availability. Built and operated large-scale Kafka-based event streaming, advanced observability and alerting, migrated microservices to ECS/Fargate, and improved CI/CD and deployment reliability.

AWS Apache Kafka Amazon CloudWatch New Relic CI CD GitHub Actions Spinnaker EC2 Containerization Tenant Isolation SLOs Error Budgets Incident Response Temporal

DevOps Specialist

Oracle

Feb 2017 - Sep 2017 (7 months)

Designed and deployed AWS cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform and Docker, supporting automated provisioning and scaling. Built CI/CD with Jenkins and Ansible and implemented centralized logging/monitoring using ELK and Prometheus, including automated compliance scanning.

AWS Terraform Docker Jenkins Ansible ELK Stack Prometheus Logging Monitoring Chef Compliance Automation HIPAA

DevOps Engineer

Lhh

Jun 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 8 months)

Architected and managed AWS infrastructure for a high-traffic recruitment platform with auto-scaling and load balancing, and reduced release cycles from monthly to weekly. Built CI/CD using Jenkins and Docker, implemented centralized log aggregation with ELK, and set up monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch and PagerDuty.