Senior Consultant
CurrentImproving is a modern digital services company offering innovative technology solutions through custom application development, agile transformation, and consulting.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: Managed Healthcare/Health Insurance Industry (Sept 2022-present)Technical lead of the platform engineering team responsible for the enterprise Kafka platform on-premise and in cloud, spearheading many initiatives to continuously improve operational maturity and automation.⚀ Introduced and… Show more Improving is a modern digital services company offering innovative technology solutions through custom application development, agile transformation, and consulting.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: Managed Healthcare/Health Insurance Industry (Sept 2022-present)Technical lead of the platform engineering team responsible for the enterprise Kafka platform on-premise and in cloud, spearheading many initiatives to continuously improve operational maturity and automation.⚀ Introduced and instilled best practices in cloud infrastructure management, cloud architecture and design, continuous integration, Kafka operations and deployment automation ⚀ Transformed highly manual deployment process to a GitOps, Ansible-controlled automated deployment. This drastically reduced the number of production deployment incidents due to human error and miscommunications ⚀ Led efforts to enable Role Based Access Control and other advanced security features to safeguard Kafka resources and protect sensitive data. Carefully planned and rolled-out the changes in production without causing disruptions to users and applications⚀ Developed and tested a collection of Terraform modules to provision fully operational Confluent Cloud environments⚀ Set up a seamless hybrid on-premise/AWS cloud Kafka environment by collaborating with other teams to solve various DNS resolution and networking challenges⚀ Architected and implemented a multi-region disaster recovery strategy⚀ Provided technical expertise and mentorship to help fellow engineers succeed in their day-to-day sprint work as well as guiding them in their professional growth Show less
