DevOps Engineer with over 6+ years of diverse experience built around core strengths in crafting CI/CD pipelines from the ground up, adhering to agile practices, optimizing cloud infrastructure to build and deploy highly available, distributed services, seeing straight through pain points when encountering DevOps problems under the hood, only to later enable high levels of process automation, streamline the infrastructure and deployment processes with DevOps best practices, reducing the overall cloud costs as well as the number of business-impacting incidents as a result of it.As soon as I step foot into a project, I should be able to have an immediate understanding of the organization's plan of action for it, or, in other words, sometimes even lay it out for them. I strive to be the go-to guy when it comes to consulting on DevOps-y tasks, focused on guiding the tech choices and their implications right before taking the BIG oh-no leaps. I also lead initiatives related to improving every aspect of client and internal-focused efforts and communication, ensuring smooth collaboration.Furthermore, I took on a leading role in the build-out of the DevOps team as its first member, founded and initiated the wing, and took care of a competent department. Being transparent internally and giving more freedom, responsibility, and decision-making to the team allows them to grow as a well-rounded and intrinsically motivated T-shaped DevOps. As the team grew in number, I eventually took on technical leadership and played the role of a mentor, guiding and nurturing the growth of six fellow teammates. I influence tech and team choices, participate in and present technical cases, and provide high-level feedback and coaching.