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York Tanaka

@yorktanaka

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DevOps engineer specializing in cloud-native AI infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automated CI/CD.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking senior DevOps or platform roles focused on cloud-native and AI infrastructure, strong automation, observability, and opportunities to lead MLOps initiatives and mentor engineers.

I am a DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines to deliver scalable, secure, high-availability systems.

I have architected GPU-powered, self-hosted environments for deploying and optimizing AI, LLM, and generative AI models across distributed architectures, reducing latency and compute costs while improving reliability. I design microservices-driven platforms with strong observability, cost-efficiency, and resilience.

In recent roles I built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads, integrated production-grade AI services into cloud platforms, and automated multi-cloud provisioning with Terraform to cut infrastructure costs and increase deployment frequency. I also implemented centralized observability stacks and mentored junior engineers on DevOps best practices.

I bring a practical, results-driven approach that bridges DevOps automation with AI infrastructure engineering to deliver production-grade machine learning systems and reliable platform operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

DevOps Engineer

Nimbus Security

Feb 2024 - Sep 2025 (1 year 7 months)

Architected and automated GPU-powered infrastructure to deploy and scale self-hosted LLMs and generative AI, reducing latency by 35% and compute costs by 25%. Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads with 99% reliability and improved observability and operational efficiency.

CoreWeave Kubernetes Terraform CI CD Observability Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

Angelist

Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Engineered Terraform IaC to automate multi-cloud provisioning, cutting infrastructure costs by 20% and increasing deployment frequency by 35%. Optimized CI/CD pipelines for container delivery across EKS, ECS, GKE and Cloud Run with 99.9% deployment reliability and integrated OpenAI models to enhance platform automation.

Terraform GKE CI CD Jenkins Kubernetes Docker ELK Stack

DevOps Developer

Gust

Oct 2018 - Oct 2021 (3 years)

Implemented and automated infrastructure workflows and CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and backend reliability; engineered load balancing and performance optimizations to ensure stability under high traffic and managed Kubernetes/Rancher production environments.

Kubernetes Rancher CI CD Load Balancing Persistent Volumes Monitoring Automation

Web Developer

Safeguard Global

Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 (2 years 11 months)

Designed and developed responsive web applications with modern ECMAScript, ensuring high performance and maintainability across diverse websites. Delivered mobile-responsive interfaces and upheld aesthetic and usability standards.

Javascript (ES6)HTML CSS Responsive Design Web Development Performance Optimization Python