Peter Burt Email & Phone Number

Smithfield, Ri, Us

Smithfield, Ri, Us

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

I lead a diverse site-reliability engineering team, managing six members encompassing DevOps and Engineering roles while coordinating across multiple time zones, including India, Brazil, and local.- Ensure effective and prompt incident responses, establishing and supervising dedicated on-call rotation. Incentivize team participation and drive cadence, scheduling at least one engineer for 24/7 support.- Champion risk mitigation efforts, documenting and continuously learning from root cause analyses and incident postmortems. Maintain risk registry by conducting regular threat modeling and secure code reviews. - Safeguard AWS multi-region failover capabilities; perform infrastructure backups and disaster recovery exercises.- Oversee daily production deployment meetings, spearheading code review processes and smooth code releases in alignment with software development life cycle (SDLC).- Direct quarterly manual penetration tests and static analysis reviews with third-party vendors; enable data-driven decision making for executive teams by delivering prompt and accurate reports.- Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) deployments using AWS CloudFormation templates.- Enhance team skills and capabilities through continuous learning and adoption of new methodologies and practices.Select Achievements- Reduced noise in alerting systems and increased operational efficiency, disseminating actionable and meaningful alerts; developed and maintained robust monitoring systems using Atlassian tools to filter application logs.- Increased system scalability and reliability by implementing AWS serverless architectures, including Lambda functions and DynamoDB, improving system performance.- Lowered incident response time 200% by setting up the first 24/7 on-call team, establishing and streamlining effective incident response processes.

Pawtucket, Ri

I spearheaded the development of software architecture from scratch for various clients, ensuring cost-effective, scalable, and project/client-compliant solutions.- Successfully mentored five junior engineers, encouraging them to pursue certifications and continuous learning to drive professional growth and improve team performance. - Created support resources, including API/end-point and succession documentation.- Conducted regular security training sessions with a third-party vendor, providing hands-on experience in upholding and improving security protocols.Select Projects- Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (07/2019-08/2022): Implemented and maintained AWS containerized serverless solution integrating Node.js and Java applications. Modernized system infrastructure, automating manual and entrenched processes. - Served as a single point of contact, leveraging technical acumen to address engineering questions. - Enabled and improved service delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic.- Spectrum (01/2019-06/2019): Developed and implemented two Java-based microservices for managing marketing campaigns with a MySQL backend, involving cross-departmental coordination and an ETL process to aggregate data from various sources. This solution streamlined marketing operations and improved data integration across the organization.- Kenzan (Internal) (01/2019-08/2022): Accelerated initiatives to enhance developer experience, new hire/project onboarding, and company culture. Championed newly adopted skills and tools to streamline developer workflow.

I maintained regular communication with clients, providing updates and handling technical inquiries to ensure project alignment with client expectations.- Presented client-facing demos that showcased comprehensive and defensive coding practices, minimizing impact from upstream errors and maintaining service integrity.Select Projects- Spectrum (05/2014-01/2019): Directed integration of 15 microservices, utilizing Kubernetes to build a node and spring boot microservice architecture with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline environment.- Thomson Reuters (12/2015-02/2016): Architected and implemented Cassandra database cluster and node maintenance processes using bash and Python to enable cloud deployment and optimal resource management.- Kenzan (Internal) (05/2014-01/2019): Constructed six proof of concept (PoC) projects with cutting-edge technologies on the company or client roadmap.