Kyle Mcauliffe Email & Phone Number

Farmington, Mi, Us

Dublin, Ie

Leading a global team of about 80 professionals, I oversee Embedded, Data Processing, Cloud Software Development, Systems Engineering, IT&V (Integration, Test, Validation), DevOps, DataOps, CloudOps, and On-Prem Operations teams.Key Achievements:● Spearheaded a cross-functional backend storage solution integrating Trino, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB, S3, and Iceberg, improving data accessibility and query efficiency.● Ensured timely and effective implementation of customer needs, leveraging AWS IoT Core for enhanced device registration and security.● Directed cost-optimization initiatives, achieving significant savings and setting strategic direction for the entire Aptiv Connected Services business unit.Impact and Improvements:● Migrated on-prem MongoDB to Atlas, overhauled requirements processes, and updated JIRA workflows, driving efficiency and reliability.● Acted as the technical liaison for Product Strategy, Sales, Customer Success, Cybersecurity, and IT, ensuring solution viability and accurate cost estimates.

Dublin, Ie

• Orchestrated a successful IT department reorganization, promoting cohesion, role clarity, and collaboration, fostering a culture of innovation and ownership that led to improved productivity and efficiency metrics.• Established standardized processes for monthly KPIs and quarterly OKRs across all IT levels, achieving a 70% success rate on OKRs with 75% alignment to executive goals.• Drove the implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions, leading the migration of video processing and IoT workloads from IaaS to SaaS/PaaS cloud offerings.• Authored a Hybrid Work Policy and Inclusive Writing List, contributing to executive-level goals in minimizing attrition.

Dublin, Ie

• Managed cybersecurity operations, overseeing risk reviews, vulnerability assessments, SIEM monitoring, and internal penetration testing for the team.• Led a project to streamline DevOps pipelines, implementing SAST and DAST tools, resulting in a 95% reduction in critical vulnerabilities across all systems.• Orchestrated the planning and implementation of a Cloud HSM-backed solution, ensuring 100% compliance for cryptographic material in a greenfield IoT and cloud-based platform.• Developed an SSH-CA solution, enabling granular, SSO-based access to vehicle IoT devices, streamlining approvals through a custom Slack workflow for enhanced security and productivity.

Dublin, Ie

Working to foster and enable the DevOps culture within Aptiv Connected Services by working with all of the development teams to understand their needs and pain points and address them. This includes developing the environments as infrastructure as code as well as building CI/CD pipelines on top of them, creating and implementing a complex software development workflow based on developer feedback, and owning and implementing the DevOps pipeline.I am also responsible for both AWS and Azure cloud cost optimizations and budgeting. This includes tasks such as account resource audits to clean up unused resources, reserved instance identification, purchasing, and rebalancing, application architecture changes to leverage more PaaS/SaaS services, and data lifecycle policy tiering and retention strategies.My team has been responsible for projects such as:- Automated Blue/Green deployments on AWS using Application Load Balancers.- Kubernetes setup, deployment, and administration in both AWS and Azure.- Implementation of build/deploy pipelines for multiple workloads and development teams on AWS and Azure.- Integration of secrets management.- DevOps pipeline automation and optimization

Allen Park, Mi, Us

• Lead a team that administered the DevOps toolchain and drove the adoption of DevOps by collaborating with Product Development teams to best leverage this toolchain.• Researched and evaluated new technologies to be used as enhancements or upgrades to existing systems and cloud infrastructure.• Supervised cloud accounts including budgeting, offered meaningful cost breakdowns to the finance team, provided cost estimation for new projects, and ongoing cost optimization. • Oversaw security initiative and facilitated meetings across departments to learn concerns, identify possible issues, ensure best practices, and provide feedback on remediation.• Was responsible for all cloud architecture and drive the initiative to have all infrastructure as code.

Allen Park, Mi, Us

• Identify, test, and implement solutions to make existing systems highly available, auto-scaling, and more secure.• Design scalable backend batch processing systems that have grown from one server in one region to over 40 servers in six regions across the globe.• Provide leadership as project manager, architect, and technical team lead for a migration/upgrade of a 10 server on-premises environment to a 70+ server environment with extremely restrictive network and access controls within a Fortune 500 company’s environment.• Responsible for identifying and supervising implementation and integration of server orchestration and configuration management solutions using CloudFormation and Ansible.• Recruit, interview, hire, and manage seven additional professionals as our IT team grows to four separate teams within IT (DevOps, Production Support, Core IT, and Client Support). • Continuously look to improve the cost effectiveness of the infrastructure and to date have achieved cost savings of over 35%

Allen Park, Mi, Us

• Administered growth from five initial servers to over 100 Linux servers, including physical, virtual, and cloud spanning across the globe including 24x7 support.• Administered the corporate AWS account which included cost optimization, best practices, maintenance, and security.• Managed a successful effort to migrate an entire existing cloud solution into a Fortune 500 company’s environment while conforming to their policies and compliance.• Set up cellular virtual private networks with AT&T and Verizon.• Installed, configured, and provide on-going support on an Asterisk VoIP system in Allen Park and Houghton. • Designed and implemented the IT infrastructure for a second office using “mobile profiles” on Linux workstations.

Tokyo, Tokyo, Jp

• Led ongoing Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Support providing onsite and remote installation, configuration, and primary support for desktops, servers, networking, and VoIP.• Provided Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE) dedicated administration and support for internal development projects and clients requests on technologies including OSSEC, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, and Apache.• Deployed internally branded Asterisk based PBX for both Tokyo and Shanghai office locations as well as multiple client sites.• Created storage tiering, reduction plan, and ILM policies for a multi-national bank.

• HP, Dell, IBM server racking and installation• Day to day administration of UNIX (Solaris8) and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server• Shell scripting with Bash and Perl• MySQL server administration

Bachelors Of Science, Information Technology

Computer Engineering, Computers

High School