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.
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.
AWS, CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform
Terraform, AWS CDK
Puppet, Ansible
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS
DataDog, Panopta, Grafana, Prometheus
Windows/Windows Server, Debian Linux, MacOS
Python, SQL, Bash, Golang
Apache, NGINX
Credentials
Certifications
Professional certifications and credentials.
Amazon Web Services
November 2018 - November 2020
Coastline Community College, Cypress, CA
September 2013 - September 2014
Communication
Languages
Languages I speak and write.
Native speaker
Highly proficient