Andrew
From Canada (UTC-4)
Andrew – Kubernetes, AWS, Python
Andrew is a senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD tooling. He has led infrastructure, developer experience, and GenAI enablement initiatives, helping engineering teams build scalable cloud-native platforms and delivery pipelines. His strengths include GitOps, infrastructure automation, cloud governance, and cost optimization, complemented by a collaborative approach and a strong focus on documentation and operational handoff. His core expertise lies in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and developer productivity.
24 years of commercial experience
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Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE/Cloud Core Platform)
Enterprise software supply chain management platform providing repository management, dependency governance, and vulnerability analysis for modern software development.
- Led right-scaling efforts to implement Karpenter and reduce EKS spend by 90%;
- Participated in a team that developed full blue/green deployments with GitHub, Terraform, and Flux;
- Led greenfield deployments for GitHub Actions;
- Created common Terraform modules for use across multiple teams;
- Refactored existing projects to use common Terraform modules;
- Developed internal SLOs with error budgets and annual downtime monitors;
- Implemented GitHub Actions versioning by git hash instead of versions;
- Implemented security controls for IAM service roles and RBAC authorization;
- Led Kubernetes upgrades across multiple regions for 3 years;
- Contributed to company standards regarding Claude AI usage and cost controls.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Event-driven integration platform enabling real-time data streaming, messaging, and event management across distributed applications, cloud services, and AI systems.
- Implemented Helm v3 deployments on Kubernetes;
- Supported SOC-2 technical compliance;
- Converted microservices to encrypted SSL for RDS;
- Built Ansible deployments for data-at-rest encryption;
- Secured TLS for strict transport security;
- Delivered Golang and Helm deployments to EKS;
- Converted existing EC2-based Java microservices to Helm and Kubernetes;
- Built Terraform deployments for AWS EKS;
- Developed Golang automated testing for AWS infrastructure;
- Delivered Kubernetes deployments and automated testing in Golang;
- Automated Vault deployment to Kubernetes on GKE using Terraform.
Middle DevOps Engineer
Hybrid cloud management platform for automating infrastructure provisioning, resource governance, cost optimization, and workload management across private, public, and multi-cloud environments.
- Architected, implemented, and maintained build and automation systems;
- Refactored build scripts and pipelines to integrate Artifactory with build processes;
- Designed development and automated testing scenarios and procedures;
- Built and maintained Docker and Kubernetes images for use in build pipelines;
- Integrated Jenkins with Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.
Middle DevOps Engineer
Enterprise cloud communications platform providing voice, video conferencing, messaging, and collaboration tools for distributed teams.
- Worked as part of a dedicated DevOps team on continuous integration, deployment cycles, and day-to-day engineering operations;
- Delivered Node.js build work using Chef;
- Managed Tomcat webapp deployments using Chef;
- Built distributed monitoring solutions using Chef;
- Upgraded community cookbooks.