Vice President, Engineering / Cloud / Devops / Qa
El Segundo, Ca, Us
Leading Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, QA, and DBA teams. Partnering with clients, business executives, and product managers to evolve the OceanX DTC subscription eCommerce, SaaS APIs, and B2B platform that processes over $1.5 billion/year in sales. Platform includes front-end eCommerce, order management, fulfillment/warehouse management, and BI. Responsible for recruiting and leading staff of 35+ employees, 20+ on/offshore contractors, and managing budget of $11M.• Led client onboarding of large companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Allergan, Madison Reed, Glossier, Proactiv, and Guthy Renker running on the OceanX platform.• Drove new engineering/SDLC best practices such as platform unit testing, code reviews, QA automation, and business/technical requirements leading to better quality and team productivity.• Re-architected and right-sized cloud platform by leveraging AWS services such as Lambda, Fargate, SQS, API Gateway, S3, ElastiCache, and RDS reducing AWS monthly bill by 72% resulting in $2.8M in annual savings.• Orchestrated BI portion of platform migration from AWS to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) saving $1.3M in licensing fees and taking advantage of Oracle Exadata.• Guided DevOps team in implementation of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Docker containers in AWS ECS and serverless Fargate and move to Infrastructure-As-Code using Ansible and CloudFormation.• Realized reduction of defect rate by 90% and 4x increase in production release frequency via CI/CD pipelines, QA automation, monitoring/alerting, and engineering best practices.• Technologies: Python, PHP, .NET, Ruby, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch), OCI (Oracle Exadata, Data Guard), Kong, RabbitMQ, PyTest, PHPUnit, Postman, Selenium, TestRail, JMeter, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Ansible, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk, BitBucket, Microservices, REST APIs, Swagger, OWASP, Jira, Confluence.