Alex P.

DevOps Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States10 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building cloud-native systems and tooling.
Strong background in incident response and operational automation.
Proficient in CI/CD and infrastructure as code practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on reliability and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureOperational AutomationSite Reliability EngineeringMonitoring & AlertingDevopsObservabilityInfrastructure AutomationBuild And Release EngineeringCi/cdWeb Development

Other Skills

KubernetesGo (Programming Language)AWSOkta OIDCCDKGitHub ActionsDatadogContinuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (CI/CD)CloudWatchSplunkTerraformSoftware ObservabilityELKNew Relic

About

Senior Software Engineer with a deep infrastructure/reliability background (SRE/Platform/DevOps). I build cloud-native systems and the tooling that keeps them reliable: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/CDK, Istio, and observability (Datadog/Splunk/CloudWatch). I’m strongest in: - Distributed systems reliability, incident response, and operational automation - Platform engineering: CI/CD, IaC, reusable constructs, internal developer tooling - Networking & service mesh: traffic routing, gateways, TLS/IAM patterns, secure access Targeting SWE, SRE, DevOps, Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, and select Sales/Solutions Engineer roles.

Experience

10 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Expedia group

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Apr 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos · Seattle, WA

Designed and led an automated AWS failover and disaster recovery workflow to enhance system resiliency.
Developed operational tooling and user interfaces using React to ensure safe execution of production failovers.
Implemented Okta OIDC authentication with API Gateway for secure internal API access, improving security protocols.
Built reusable CDK constructs and GitHub Actions pipelines for automated infrastructure provisioning, streamlining operations.

KubernetesGo (Programming Language)Cloud InfrastructureOperational Automation

Site Reliability Engineer II

Nov 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, WA

Implemented comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems across services using Datadog, CloudWatch, and Splunk.
Automated incident workflows with ServiceNow, significantly reducing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
Facilitated SLO adoption and reliability best practices through workshops and documentation.
Developed operational automation to minimize toil and enhance on-call effectiveness.

DatadogContinuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (CI/CD)Site Reliability EngineeringMonitoring & Alerting

Sap concur

2 roles

Senior DevOps Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Oct 2021 · 7 mos

Spearheaded the development of standardized monitoring and alerting patterns, enhancing observability across teams.
Designed and implemented web APIs to facilitate the adoption of observability services, improving team efficiency.
Automated the setup and configuration of ELK clusters, streamlining data management processes.
Developed custom metrics and dashboards in New Relic for compliance and KPI tracking, ensuring operational excellence.

TerraformSoftware ObservabilityDevOpsObservability

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed and automated observability onboarding processes to enhance developer experience.
Implemented cloud-native monitoring solutions utilizing AWS and ELK stack.
Built and maintained CI/CD workflows using Jenkins and Terraform for streamlined deployment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Continuous IntegrationContinuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsCloud Infrastructure

Safeauto

DevOps Engineer

Apr 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Columbus, Ohio

Built and maintained end-to-end Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for production applications, enhancing deployment efficiency.
Automated infrastructure tasks using PowerShell, Puppet, and Bash, streamlining operations and reducing manual effort.
Managed application runtime configurations across IIS, Tomcat, and Apache on Windows Server, ensuring optimal performance.

Azure DevOps ServicesPowerShellDevOpsInfrastructure Automation

Great american insurance group

Build And Release Engineer

May 2016 – Mar 2017 · 10 mos · Cincinnati, Ohio

Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, and Octopus Deploy.
Authored reusable Groovy scripts for efficient packaging and publishing processes.
Led the successful upgrade from TFS 2010 to TFS 2015, facilitating team onboarding.
Administered artifact repository tooling to streamline development workflows at Great American Insurance Group.

JenkinsGitBuild and Release EngineeringCI/CD

Xavier university

Web Developer

Oct 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cincinnati, Ohio

Developed and maintained the university website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ColdFusion, and SQL.
Implemented Slack bot integrations to streamline service request routing for improved efficiency.
Ensured website compliance with W3C accessibility standards, enhancing user experience for all visitors.

JavaScriptWeb Development