Alexis Okuwa

DevOps Engineer

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States17 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Architected high-availability platforms at Amazon.
Led transition to microservices architecture at Ring.
Developed unified AI inference pipeline for cloud and edge.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and DevOps expert with extensive experience in high-availability systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureSystems EngineeringDevopsSystems AdministrationBackend DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

High-availability video platformsReal-time processingCross-VPC network architectureAI inference pipelineSecurity architecturePerformance tuningInfrastructure teamsReal-time video streamingDevOps architectureMicroservices designNOC & DevOps practiceSpam bot defenseEnd-to-End automationCost optimizationAWS setup

Experience

17 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

10 yrs

Current Experience

Amazon

Senior Principal Engineer

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · Remote

Architected high-availability video platforms capable of handling billions of daily events with real-time processing capabilities.
Deployed a cost-efficient cross-VPC network architecture, facilitating transparent bridging and dynamic routing across distributed cloud environments.
Developed a unified AI inference pipeline that supports both edge devices and cloud infrastructure with a single codebase.
Designed the security architecture for customer data, enforcing end-to-end encryption across video storage and metadata streams.
Spearheaded performance tuning and resource management changes, driving 5–20% cost savings across high-traffic services.

High-availability video platformsReal-time processingCross-VPC network architectureAI inference pipelineSecurity architecturePerformance tuning+2

Ring

Sr. Director of System Operations

May 2016 – Present · 10 yrs · Santa Monica, CA

Built 3 core infrasture teams, Devops, Site Reliability Engineering(SRE), System Engineering
Operates a real-time video streaming application with complex business logic.
Added support for 24/7 follow the sun SRE team to handle the day to day, with a strong DevOps architecture Guild.
Designed the new platform from its old monolithic ruby platform to a multi-language multi-datacenter Microservices design.
Supporting Millions of real time audio/video calls a day and 100s billion transactions a day.
Supporting DevOps as a service, and Embedded Devops Resources for rapid development and troubleshooting.

Infrastructure teamsReal-time video streamingDevOps architectureMicroservices designSystems EngineeringDevOps

Grindr

DevOPS, Manager

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Hollywood, CA

Built and Trained 24/7 NOC & DevOPS practice with 5 minute SLA response times.
Defended against Spam Bots and State funded hacks using BigData backed by security standards
Optimized costs across department to focus on core infrastructure.
Lead effort for End-to-End automation of systems and infrastructure.
Contributed critical design patterns to optimize core businesses transactions.

NOC & DevOps practiceSpam bot defenseEnd-to-End automationCost optimizationDevOps

Mozart

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nov 2014 – Aug 2015 · 9 mos · Santa Monica, CA

Multi Region AWS setup with encrypted data links.
Self healing high performance infrastructure.
Custom CDN using Nginx/Lua to add features like on the fly resize of images.
Custom upload system to virus scan user uploads.
MariaDB+Galera for multi-region multi-master MySQL.

AWS setupHigh performance infrastructureCustom CDNMulti-region MySQLDevOps

Cloudflare, inc.

Platform Engineer

Sep 2013 – Jun 2014 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Security Enhancements to existing WebSite
Enhanced API to follow DNS Spec more closely
Built New API endpoints
Developed interfaces for managing in-house tools

Security enhancementsAPI developmentIn-house tool managementDevOps

Chartboost

Senior DevOps Engineer

Feb 2013 – Sep 2013 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Stopped HTTP DDOS attacks at layer 7 with out effecting legitimate traffic
Deployed and Manged MongoDB cluster that handled 100,000 queries a second
Implanted Apache optimizations of performance 10%
Deployed elasticSearch cluster

DDoS attack preventionMongoDB cluster managementApache performance optimizationElasticSearch deploymentDevOps

Cie games

Senior DevOps Engineer

Oct 2012 – Feb 2013 · 4 mos · Long Beach, CA

Deployed & Managed 12 shard(60 node) MongoDB cluster
Optimized Tomcat environment
Implemented Application Monitoring by HTTP endpoint in splunk
Implemented smart use of Memcache without caching everything that resulted in 20% performance gian
Part of 24/7 on call Rotation

MongoDB cluster deploymentTomcat optimizationApplication monitoringMemcache optimizationDevOps

Winnol

Lead System Admin (contract)

May 2012 – Oct 2012 · 5 mos · Glendale, Ca

HA Cluster for serving video and Contnet
Rebuild office internal network with Gigbit workstation access, and 10 Gigbit server access
Build Custom REST API
Directly Negotiated with vendors for services and pricing
Contracted by Work-bridge assocates

High availability clusterNetwork rebuildingCustom REST APIVendor negotiationSystems Administration

Egood

Lead Backend-Developer

Oct 2011 – Aug 2012 · 10 mos · Glendora, Ca

Built the custom REST API.
Designed Storing of location database
Implemented dynamic caching rules based on current system load
Mentored Junior developers
Sister company of Swire

REST API developmentLocation database designDynamic cachingMentoringBackend Development

Swire

Backend-Developer (contract)

Jun 2011 – Oct 2011 · 4 mos · Glendora, CA

Worked on some website and interactive campains, also the first steps to building eGood.
Retooled in house framework.
Redesigned Database Layer
Overall Optimizations lead to 50% lower hosting costs.
Parent company of eGood

Database layer redesignHosting cost optimizationBackend Development