Resume

Daniel Rodriguez

DevOps Engineer
Los Angeles, USA

Skilled Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in cloud system administration, configuration management, CI/CD, and keeping software systems running smoothly. Comfortable working with a variety of platforms and always up-to-date with the latest development tools and methods. Great at handling projects solo and love being part of a team that gets things done efficiently.

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Employment History

A timeline of my professional experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

DevOps Engineer at Codecademy.com

New York City, NY (Remote) | July 2024 - Present

  • Primarily working with AWS Services: RDS, ElastiCache, IAM, EKS
  • Maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for a majority of services using Terraform
  • Streamlined Product and Application deployments automation and configuration management tasks
  • Support and maintain internal systems, monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health with DataDog
  • Manage services life cycle from inception through deployment, operations, and refinement
  • Build out automation tooling to improve the reliability of the platform, and developer productivity
  • Provide hands-on technical expertise during service-impacting events, participate in on-call rotation
  • Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements, and process enhancements
  • Participated in migration from CircleCI to Github Actions
  • Managed CloudFlare infrastructure including DNS, Caching, Page Rules
  • Server-less Architecture using AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions

Site Reliability Engineer at GoDaddy.com

Marina Del Ray, CA (Hybrid) | November 2018 - July 2022

  • Primarily working with *Nix systems (primary focus on RHEL/CentOS/Debian Linux)
  • Streamlined Product and Application deployments automation and configuration management tasks
  • Support and maintain internal systems, monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
  • Manage services lifecycle from inception through deployment, operations, and refinement
  • Create and support automation tooling to improve the reliability of the platform
  • Review logs of various services for troubleshooting and performance improvement
  • Provide hands-on technical expertise during service-impacting events
  • Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements, and process enhancements

Cloud Engineer at Media Temple

Marina Del Ray, CA (Hybrid) | November 2016 - November 2018

  • Work with customers to design cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations
  • Build, deploy, and maintain cloud-based infrastructures using Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with tools like AWS CloudFormation based on technical specifications
  • Optimize customer infrastructure for increased traffic events

CloudTech Support at Media Temple

Marina Del Ray, CA (Hybrid) | November 2015 - November 2016

  • Field CloudTech Support Inbound Calls, Support Requests, and Live Chats for Media Temple Services
  • Expedite On-Demand Services including Database Management, Apache Tuning, MySQL Optimization, Intrusion Prevention
  • Troubleshoot Web Server Software (Apache & NGINX)
  • cPanel/WHM & Plesk Troubleshooting and Administration
  • CentOS/RHEL Troubleshooting and Administration
  • Monitor site outages with Panopta and take appropriate action to resolve these outages

IT Help Desk & Operations Technician at Western Dental & Orthodontics

Orange, CA (On-site) | March 2008 - March 2014

  • Provide technical support and assistance to over 600 onsite & 2000 remote users
  • Field technical issue and information request calls and emails from users
  • Manage Data Center server backups daily
  • Install/Configure new servers for Data Center
  • Monitor WAN Outages & Deployments
  • After-hours on-call response for Data Center Outages
  • Complete roll out of various software & hardware releases company-wide

Technical Skills

Skills & Expertise

Technical skills and tools I work with regularly.

Cloud Platforms

AWS, CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, AWS CDK

Configuration Management

Puppet, Ansible

CI/CD

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI

Containers & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS

Monitoring & Observability

DataDog, Panopta, Grafana, Prometheus

Operating Systems

Windows/Windows Server, Debian Linux, MacOS

Programming & Scripting

Python, SQL, Bash, Golang

Web Servers

Apache, NGINX

Credentials

Certifications

Professional certifications and credentials.

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services
November 2018 - November 2020

VMware vSphere VCP5-DCV Certification

Coastline Community College, Cypress, CA
September 2013 - September 2014

Communication

Languages

Languages I speak and write.

English

Native speaker

Spanish

Highly proficient