stevencorrea / spring-cloud-dataflow

A microservices-based Streaming and Batch data processing in Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

Steven A Correa

email: [email protected]

website: stevenacorrea.com

Attributes

• Empathetic leader practicing transparent documentation and knowledge sharing
• Works well alongside others; enjoys troubleshooting and working through problems with others
• Experienced in building and operating infrastructure in large scale cloud environments
• Drives results using a metrics driven approach to Agile methodologies

Competencies

• 7 years AWS and Azure infrastructure automation and operation
• 9 years Linux administration, configuration management, scripting
• 5 years Production Systems management, incident response and resolution
• 3 years CI/CD implementation, release management and monitoring

Experience

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 | Manager, Systems Engineering (Promotion) – Red Canary

• Hire, coach and lead a team of 4 Systems Engineers working across engineering and security
• Improve security posture by coordinating AWS SSO roll out and driving security objectives
• Drove initiative to remove 100+ individual AWS Access Keys leveraging Director buy in
• Oncall, response and resolution for incidents leveraging real time collaboration tools
• Review and define Terraform best practices by leading the Terraform Working Group

Mar 2021 – Feb 2022 | Senior Production Engineer – Red Canary

• Define Terraform for AWS based infrastructure spanning 12+ accounts and regions
• Oncall, incident response and resolution using PagerDuty and 5 Whys methodology
• Kubernetes cluster management (450-1200 node count) and operations using EKS and Lens
• Maintain a fleet (600+) of EC2 instances using Salt and Terraform
• Translate technical specifics to management while providing guidance to 3 junior engineers

Jan 2019 – Mar 2021 | Site Reliability Engineer – Build.com, Ferguson Enterprises

• Partner with Platform team to architect an on premise Kubernetes PoC using HA Rancher
• Own CI/CD infrastructure and collaborate with developers to troubleshoot pipeline failures
• Increase configuration as code across 20+ microservices by writing Jenkinsfiles and Dockerfiles
• Resolve issues at scale using New Relic APM and Sumo Logic SIEM
• Incident response and resolution for $1B/yr production Ecommerce infrastructure

Sep 2017 – Jun 2018 | DevOps Engineer – Work Truck Solutions

• Build and manage 4 automated CI/CD pipelines for Windows and Linux applications using VSTS
• Manage 2 App Service deployments to production, demo and staging environments
• Architect Azure based SSL reverse proxy solution using Let's Encrypt and Nginx
• Leverage PowerShell and Azure CLI for static asset migration and server operations
• Monitor and resolve all outages for production applications using Pingdom

Dec 2015 – Sep 2017 | DevOps Specialist – Fifth Sun

• Migrate source to GitLab and developed a release strategy for 3 software projects
• Migrate Database to RDS, static assets to S3 and on premise services to AWS
• Reduce page load times 2x by auditing plugins with developers using WebPageTest and New Relic
• Optimize Apache and upgraded PHP (5.4 to 7.0) with documented DR strategy and runbook
• 24x7 monitoring of all production applications and infrastructure using New Relic and CloudWatch

Education

2020 | Associate of Science, Computer Programming – Butte College

Certifications

2021 | Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Developer Associate, DevOps Engineer Expert

2020 | The Linux Foundation LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals

2020 | CompTIA A+ Certification

References and further experience available via LinkedIn or upon request