Travis Webb Email & Phone Number

Newton, MA, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Blink, an Amazon Company
• Spearheaded the migration of EC2 infrastructure from x86 to ARM64 architecture, enabling an estimated annual AWS cost reduction of $3-6 million. This initiative included integrating multi-architecture compatible Docker.
• Held full responsibility for all global service deployments to over 15 million customer devices, multiphase releases, patches, and infrastructure additions or modifications.
• Transitioned deployments from manual to automated systems, significantly reducing human error and improving reliability.
• Oversaw Jenkins operations, from maintenance and troubleshooting to enhancing build and deployment processes. Some key highlights are automating build jobs and deployments, integrating security scanning, and writing.
• Played a key role in the creation and management of a substantial portion of the company's global infrastructure. Millions of customers were onboarded to and interacted with our services that I deployed, hosted by.

Waltham, Massachusetts, US

• Dockerization & deployment to AWS of core business platform software
• Migration of all business-critical databases to encrypted versions of themselves to meet compliance requirements
• Setup and configuration of bastion/jump hosts, including writing a command line tool in Ruby to use them
• Established secrets management system and wrote command line tool to access secrets for developers/apps
• Conducted AWS cost analysis and created report to save over $100,000/year in AWS costs
• Managed CircleCI build system, wrote build and deployment scripts, and created docker images for builds

Austin, Texas, US

• Creation and management of many types of AWS resources:EC2 (servers), IAM (users, groups), RDS (databases), S3 (storage), and much more
• Database Administration – MySQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS Redshift
• Setup and administration of monitoring, alerting, and logging systems such as Datadog, Pingdom, New Relic, Statuspage.io, Victorops, Logentries, fluentd
• Development and Dockerization of apps, scripts, and microservices such as: A command line tool for deployments, migrations, and troubleshootingAutomatic database maintenance services (i.e. permission correction.

Boca Raton, Florida, US

• Implemented the Blackboard-Austin monitoring solution in Sensu (translating it from Zabbix as a proof of concept). Wrote Ruby and Bash scripts to recreate the reporting capabilities of Zabbix and wrote Ansible scripts.
• Designed and implemented a new GUI section for Uchiwa (a dashboard for Sensu) in AngularJS to meet Blackboard’s reporting requirements. Submitted to main branch as open-source contribution..
• Reduced number of off-hours escalations and simultaneously increased the amount of uptime for Blackboard hosted products by automating repetitive manual tasks for the DevOps team.

• Designed $26.2 million power-distribution-grid for a Marine base during deployment to Afghanistan, then supervised the team of 40+ contractors to execute the installation of this design.
• Conducted emergency power assessments across the U.S. in response to natural disasters.

• Combat Operations - 500+ combat patrols while deployed to Baghdad, Iraq (2006¬-2007).