Franklin Ivey Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, CA, US

Dallas, TX, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Lobbied for and oversaw migration from self-hosted GitLab instance to SaaS platform - Transferred security and reliability concerns away from small team with limited time - Saved 5+ dev hours per month through reduced.
• Implemented JumpCloud SSO for role-based access to internal engineering tools
• Defined first ever roadmap for DevOps team and set quarterly objectives
• Tracked uptime and reliability metrics for IoT connectivity platform

Dallas, Texas, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Defined objectives and key results for Cloud Operations team, consistently achieving >90% of quarterly goals
• Coached and mentored team members on skills ranging from development best practices to effective communication with peers
• Setup and led calls with vendors for various software solutions including cloud database services, ETL/ELT tools, APM platforms, and security monitoring systems
• Lobbied for and hired SignalPath’s first Site Reliability Engineer as well as other DevOps team members
• Navigated acquisition of SignalPath by Verily Life Sciences and Alphabet - Delivered presentation on infrastructure and processes to acquisition team led by Google engineers and fielded questions regarding SignalPath.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Implemented cost saving measures in AWS, reducing monthly bill by 25%
• Authored SOPs and defined controls that contributed to a successful SOC 2 Type 2 certification
• Installed and configured Tableau server via Ansible for embedded reporting project
• Led efforts to upgrade Rancher and Kubernetes clusters while improving separation of development, staging, and production environments

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Migrated from Chef to Ansible for server configuration while updating base AMI from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 18
• Migrated 150+ code repositories and build pipelines from Bitbucket to GitLab
• Eliminated individual access credentials in AWS by implementing process for federated authentication through Okta

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed automated tools to support operations teams using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
• Created custom Python library to standardize deployment of functions in AWS Lambda
• Deployed Python applications on Docker containers to Kubernetes cluster using Helm

Raleigh, NC, US

• Worked alongside talented developers on an Agile software development team with a focus on Java-based APIs in the telecommunications space. My contributions to the team ranged from quality assurance to feature.
• Oversaw entire CI/CD process for number management portal from code check-in to production deployment
• Introduced new technologies such as Ansible, Flyway, and Packer to improve CI/CD processes
• Led efforts to achieve zero-downtime deployments for customer-facing Java application
• Set policies and standards for database migrations, library updates, and upgrades to third-party software dependencies
• Utilized AWS to create and manage on-demand test infrastructure

Austin, Texas, US

• Designed performance evaluation tests and reporting methods
• Developed APIs and other tools for automation of testing

Morrisville, NC, US

• Performed quality assurance testing on the company's Linux platform
• Developed automated tests for virtualization and database software
• Executed performance testing on network equipment