Justin

Designed and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS and GCP using Terraform, enabling Stripe to achieve 99.99% uptime for payment processing services.

Deployed

Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate containerized payment microservices, improving horizontal scalability by 40% during peak transaction loads across global regions. Automated CI/CD pipelines for more than 50 microservices using Spinnaker and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 70% for critical payment infrastructure.

Senior DevOps Engineer - Stripe - Remote

(2022-01)

• Designed and implemented multi-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS and GCP using Terraform, enabling Stripe to achieve 99.99% uptime for payment processing services.
• Deployed Kubernetes clusters to orchestrate containerized payment microservices, improving horizontal scalability by 40% during peak transaction loads across global regions.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines for more than 50 microservices using Spinnaker and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 70% for critical payment infrastructure.
• Enhanced cloud security by implementing IAM policies and automated compliance checks across Stripe's financial data services, reducing manual intervention by 60%.
• Integrated Prometheus and Grafana for real-time system monitoring, enabling a 30% reduction in incident response times and optimizing cloud spending by ~20% through anomaly detection in compute and storage usage.

DevOps Engineer - Zoom Video Communication, Inc - Remote

(2020-06 - 2021-12)

• Architected and convinced a hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP to support a 400% surge in user growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring seamless scalability and 99.999% uptime for Zoom meetings.
• Built automated infrastructure-as-code (IaC) pipelines using Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing provisioning time for Kubernetes clusters by 80% to handle sudden traffic spikes during enterprise conferences.
• Optimized Zoom's relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases for real-time user authentication and chat services, reducing latency by 30% under high concurrency.
• Implemented secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, ensuring PCI-DSS-compliant deployment workflows for enterprise customers.
• Initiated advanced monitoring across the cloud stack with Datadog and custom GCP monitoring tools, achieving a 35% reduction in mean time to resolve (MTTR) issues and identifying redundancies to cut cloud costs by 25%.

DevOps Developer - DigitalOcean - New York, US

(2015-01 - 2020-05)

• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual setup time for new environments by 50%.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins pipelines and Git, streamlining code deployments across staging and production environments.
• Monitored and scaled server clusters with Nagios and Docker Swarm, improving system reliability for web hosting clients.
• Set up centralized log management using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to enable real-time insights into application performance.
• Collaborated with developers to containerize applications using Docker, improving deployment consistency and reducing environment-specific issues by 25%.

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science - University of Georgia (2010-07 - 2014-08)