Linda Rodgers

Engineering Manager

Hilliard, Ohio, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven track record in leading DevOps transformations.
Expertise in cloud migration and database management.
Strong leadership in multi-functional team environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused IT leader with expertise in DevOps and cloud technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

DevopsCloud TechnologiesDatabase ManagementArchitecture

Other Skills

observabilitytoolingplatform deliveryAWSOracle RDSdatabase architecturedatabase migrationsolutioningdata securityOracle DBAproblem solvingteam leadershipOracleSQL ServerWeblogic

About

Results-driven IT Leader working in the DevOps space with a goal to disrupt and modernize our platform. Accomplished at building, leading and transforming multi-functional teams for complex, at-risk projects in support of corporate goals. Skills include cloud technologies, large-scale migrations, infrastructure architecture and database technologies.

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Github

Staff Engineering Manager

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area · Remote

Leader and manager of the GHES Operator Platform team which aims to provide tooling and observability to empower and delight the Operators of our GitHub Enterprise Server product. We are currently focusing on observability so that Operators can identify potential problems before they become a dumpster fire. We are challenging the norms and making bold investments. Prior to leading the GHES Operator Platform team, I led a team working in the Actions and Packages space.

cloud technologiesobservabilitytoolingDevOpsCloud Technologies

Covermymeds

2 roles

Manager, Platform Delivery

Jun 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Currently leading a team of DevOps engineers with a mission to build platforms and tools to help our Application Development teams build, test and deliver software faster. Responsible for managing the team’s workflow and roadmap to prioritize “what’s important now” to ensure that we are spending our engineering hours as effectively as possible. Leader for adopting cloud technologies and migrating services and applications from on-prem data centers to the cloud.

cloud technologiesDevOpsplatform deliveryCloud Technologies

Manager, Platform Delivery

Jun 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Affinion group

4 roles

Director & Architect, Database and Middle-tier technologies

Promoted

Jan 2016 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Leading a team of 10 Middle-tier and Database Administrators across various technologies supporting all NA and UK membership-based platforms. Serving as database tier lead for migration of UK membership databases to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Designed and recommended AWS architecture for Oracle RDS databases with emphasis on performance and cost efficiency. Hands-on experience with building EC2 servers, network configuration, RDS database servers, and S3 storage.
Also serving as a database tier lead for migration the database and middle-tier platforms from internal data center to a hosted 3rd party data center. Responsible for system architecture, migration plans and timeline.

AWSOracle RDSdatabase architectureDatabase ManagementCloud Technologies

Sr Manager.- Architect

Jun 2015 – Jan 2016 · 7 mos

Responsible for overall architecture, solutioning, hardware specifications, and project cost assessment. Created all project documentation and “approval for expenditure” requests for Senior Management sign-off.
Evaluate new technology and tools to streamline internal IT processes, enhance data security and reduce operational expense.
Lead architect and Database SME for several large database replatform projects moving from physical to virtualized hardware platforms
Evaluating and improving data architecture, database configuration, security, performance and processes for the backend database to a large globally-based Membership system.

architecturesolutioningdata securityDatabase ManagementArchitecture

Director, Database Management

Promoted

Jan 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

A results-driven IT Director with strong organizational, communication and creative problem solving skills. Accomplished at building, leading and transforming multi-functional teams through complex, at-risk projects Strong Oracle DBA skills and can still accomplish hands-on database administration tasks, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Oracle DBAproblem solvingteam leadershipDatabase Management

Manager, Platform Operations

Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 · 5 yrs

Lead the Database Administration and Weblogic Platform Operations team managing the Oracle and SQL Server database tier along with the Weblogic middle-tier and Layer7 XML Gateway. Responsible for leading a team of 11 engineers.

OracleSQL ServerWeblogicDatabase Management