Abel Galvan
United States/Remote
Summary
Efficient and independent DevOps Engineer with a wide array of skills and an experience of 7+ years. Highly professional and a strong team player.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Indiana Toll Road
10.2021 - 09.2022
- Created monitors using Zabbix to ensure continuous uptime.
- Managed Azure CI/CD pipeline build scripts and resolved build issues for engineers.
- Implemented Powershell scripts.
AWS Cloud/Systems Engineer
Engine (Balihoo)
04.2018 - 08.2021
- Performed Bamboo instance migration to cloud hosted solutions.
- Mitigated security risks by auditing security policies and taking corrective action to enforce secure deployments.
- Owned release process for backend instances and frontend deployments.
- Eliminated redundant services and tools saving over $700,000 USD in annual costs.
- Administered Jira access for engineers.
- Create and manage Bitbucket repos.
DevOps Engineer
Conversant LLC
06.2014 - 04.2018
- Managed and maintained Bamboo in-house instance for over 20 engineers.
- Resolved CI/CD pipeline issues.
- Provisioned and maintained Bitbucket and Git repos.
- Performed deployments regularly across two data centers in the United States and Europe housing over 1,000 servers.
- Administered AWS instances ranging from DynamoDB & S3 to compute instances such as EC2 and IaC (terraform) releases for VPC and CloudWatch.
- Defined access policy for IAM users.
- Declared ReGex structures for extracting ELK logs and enabled observability through Kibana.
- Provision, update and maintain Linux server instances using Puppet, including managing package upgrades.
IT Technical Support Specialist
Chicago White Sox
04.2010 - 10.2010
- Administered all stadium network connected devices.
- Handle support requests for resolving user access issues.
- Setup and configure software on work computers.
IT Support Specialist
International Academy Of Design & Technology
11.2007 - 11.2009
- Create security isolation layers using Deepfreeze (ephemeral user sessions) and VMware.
- Provision Windows images for use in class computers for students and staff.
- Manage a group of 11 student workers to assist with technical tasks.
- Inventory campus computers and servers using Data-Maxx Technologies.
Network Administrator/Computer Technician
United States Marine Corps
01.2000 - 01.2004
- Repaired crucial communication links while under fire during combat to identify enemies and friendly forces.
- Responsible for deploying and managing an inventory of 120 computers for combat pre-deployment.
- Owned all roles and tasks for resolving technical issues for a battalion of 1,000 Marines in active deployment.
- Enforced user access policies and performed routine security audits.
- Managed inventory of all electronic assets within the battalion.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, ILSkills
- Puppet, Salt, Bamboo, SolarWinds, Zabbix, ELK, Splunk, Nagios, PagerDuty, Site24/7, Datadog
- Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby
- Puppet, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, VMware, Salt
- Bitbucket/Git, Jira, Confluence
- AWS/Azure Cloud
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Indiana Toll Road
10.2021 - 09.2022
AWS Cloud/Systems Engineer
Engine (Balihoo)
04.2018 - 08.2021
DevOps Engineer
Conversant LLC
06.2014 - 04.2018
IT Technical Support Specialist
Chicago White Sox
04.2010 - 10.2010
IT Support Specialist
International Academy Of Design & Technology
11.2007 - 11.2009
Network Administrator/Computer Technician
United States Marine Corps
01.2000 - 01.2004
Bachelor of Science -
Illinois Institute of Technology