Brandon Evers Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

- Responsible for multiple projects spanning across infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems.- Helped design and deploy a production Kafka system onto Kubernetes using the Strimzi Operator.- Drove efforts to move over 60 databases and multiple microservices from AWS to GCP while minimizing downtime and preventing disruption to downstream services via proxy services.- Maintained a consistent on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support to production systems.- Improved overall incident response by helping implement a proper incident management protocol.- Worked alongside project manager to ease the burden on our DevOps team by identifying streams of work, enforcing SLAs around ticket response, and reducing bloated responsibilities.- Led cost savings efforts including: reducing cloud spending, removal of unused tooling, and rightsizing infrastructure.- Provided DevOps evidence to SOC2/ISO auditors and worked closely alongside the InfoSec team to review audit controls and design future processes.- Maintained and improved an aging CI/CD system built on Jenkins and Spinnaker. Primarily, I focused on simplifying current infrastructure by standardizing worker pools, implementing a proper scaling solution with ASGs, and moving Spinnaker to a more stable deployment/configuration solution with helm.- Driving a full redesign of the CI/CD platform using Github Actions. This system is being built as an automation platform first, to enable all of engineering without the need for DevOps intervention.

Chicago, Il, Us

Carmel, Indiana, Us

- Designed and built a full CI/CD system from the ground up using Jenkins deploying to a 100% AWS cloud environment. Process included standardizing the build process across multiple development teams and developing a Jenkins Shared Library to manage configuration, secrets, image building, and more.- Implemented a monitoring and alerting system using Prometheus and Grafana. Developed custom collectors to allow data health metrics and constant monitoring to be applied to any AWS resources.- Created an event stream to allow any source to send custom events and have them graphed and alerted on via Grafana.- Standardized Git repositories with tooling designed to scaffold out a full project from one location.Implemented multiple core services with a self healing infrastructure model including Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, Prometheus, Grafana.- Transitioned to full IaC by helping to build and maintain a modular terraform repository.- Wrote various automation tools and scripts using Bash, Python, and Golang.- Spearheaded various DevOps projects and interfaced with multiple stakeholders.- Lead incident management and handled production grade outages.

Carmel, Indiana, Us

Northbrook, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us