Kirk Rogers Email & Phone Number

Manhattan Beach, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

- Hired directly from IBM as a full-time permanent employee for FRB, then acquired by Chase, responsible for developing and maintaining proprietary CI/CD pipelines while leading a team of support specialists.- Service architectures included Spinnaker, Kubernetes (OpenShift and EKS), JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, GitHub, CloudBees Jenkins, AWS RDS PostgreSQL.- Developed and managed automated blueprints and Terraform configuration files to facilitate application deployments across various environments, ensuring efficient infrastructure provisioning and the seamless deployment of containerized services.- Served as team lead, providing support to hundreds of engineers in utilizing tools for deploying applications and programs across diverse environments.- Hands-on involvement in CI/CD pipeline management and containerized application support.Technologies: Kubernetes (OpenShift and EKS), JFrog Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault, CloudBees Jenkins, AWS EKS (Kubernetes), PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora), Spinnaker, Terraform, Python, Bash

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As a consultant for IBM, contracted to First Republic Bank as a Cloud Engineer and member of an enterprise architecture team responsible for providing cloud infrastructure and support for hundreds of engineers. Developing/maintaining/supporting a sophisticated CI/CD pipeline designed to ease the burden of application development lifecycles. Collaborating with multiple teams in all design aspects to ensure delivery of robust solutions.- Responsible for all aspects of multiple projects including development and maintenance.- Real time support for hundreds of engineers.- End to end troubleshooting of CICD pipelines and containerized applications including Kubernetes (RedHat OpenShift), Artifactory, Jenkins, Hishicorp Vault, RDS PostgreSQL, as well as 4 git repositories housing the CICD processes.- Training: Certified GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Professional Architect Technologies: Kubernetes (RedHat OpenShift Container Platform OCP), JFrog Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault, CloudBees Jenkins, AWS EKS (Kubernetes), PostgreSQL (AWS Aurora), GitHub Repository.

Sr DevOps Engineer responsible for providing company wide leadership and direction for all AWS cloud technologies. Instrumental in saving the company 30% in AWS expenses on a monthly basis while working closely with Chief Operations Officer. Managed several engineers while developing and delivering various IT projects on time and within budget. Tackling daily technology challenges, providing overall guidance in architecture and design, utilizing dozens of AWS services.- Responsible for AWS Cloud management and budget, reducing the monthly cost of service by 30%. This included S3 lifecycle adjustments, API Gateway throttling, Mobile SDK redesign, EC2 management, RedShift cluster reduction and tuning, Kinesis data pipeline management, and fine tuning all AWS services across the board.- Redesigned a cost prohibitive API gateway layer, designing an SDK/Kinesis/Firehose/S3/DB direct pipeline which improved performance and security while reducing overall cost. This complete “serverless” pipeline provides the method for data Ingestion from SDK App to DB end-to-end.- Implemented a VPN architecture to provide a secured environment enforcing AWS best practices. Introduced OpenVPN + MFA to create a secured and compliant architecture, including multi VPC Peering connections, VPC Endpoints, routing table adjustments, public and private subnet management, and applying strict security group firewall constraints.- Introduced Cloudformation, Ansible and Terraform for configuration management, deploying infrastructure as code (IaC).- Spearheaded the containerization of corporate products and provided guidance to the engineering staff to utilize modern CI/CD pipelines.Technologies: Kubernetes, CloudFront, Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, ECS, Fargate, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, EC2, S3, RedShift, MySql, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Kinesis/Firehose, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, SQS, VPC, OpenVPN, SSO, Route 53, Cognito, SNS, SES, shell and Python.

As CTO and Principal Devops Engineer: Determine strategic direction and spearhead technological integration of services and platforms to ease the burden on labor intensive processes.Managed all aspects of service: Personnel, vendor selection and procurement, hardware, scheduling, documentation, etc.Completely redesigned the struggling service to a fully functioning and profitable business. The architecture comprised of over 2 dozen Unix servers, dozens of applications and protocols, and hundreds of admin processes. As a result, the product was more flexible in every aspect, producing one of the top competing job boards on the market. Architecture included: Apache2 servers, Apache::ASP and Apache2/mod_perl2 utilizing modern OO methods, MySQL/MariaDB databases, DNS, customized XML and Restful API feeds, clustered MTA servers using DJB Qmail in a multi-node, multi-domain, channelized configuration. Fully secured system utilizing custom firewall techniques.Consolidated services and migrated to an AWS cloud infrastructure using EC2 and RDS instances, developing and implementing strategies for CD/CI using AWS CodeDeploy, CodePipeline and S3. Responsible for all code, performed all updates, troubleshot all problems, as well as implemented new concepts and techniques. Streamlined code and applications to perform with minimum server resources maximizing front end performance.Developed large scale email distribution service for client contact requirements. Created custom administrative front end for complete control of product, including monitoring and display of system critical components, alarm system, billing and notification. Technologies Used: EC2, S3, MySql, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Linux, Sql/RDBMS, Oracle, RADIUS, ASP, PERL, CGI, SNMP and Fedora; Qmail - MTA email distribution servers and processes; Object-oriented programs; SEO strategies;