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Brandon Evers

Macomb,MI

Summary

Experienced DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience designing and operating scalable, reliable infrastructure. Specialized in automation, infrastructure-as-code, and system reliability, with a track record of enabling fast, secure deployments. Proven leadership in cross-functional initiatives and mentoring teams while remaining a high-impact individual contributor.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer II

Mathpix
01.2025 - Current
  • Transitioned legacy, EC2 based applications to ECS by building a custom infrastructure orchestration cli tool in python.
  • Designed core networking infrastructure in AWS from the ground up.
  • Prepared cloud infrastructure for impending SOC2 certification.
  • Collaborated with application engineering teams to enable faster iteration with custom tooling.
  • Monitored system health and performance metrics to identify and resolve potential issues proactively.
  • Contributed to incident response efforts by troubleshooting production issues in real-time environments.
  • Reduced deployment times by enabling faster scaling on ECS with warm pools and pre-emptive scale ups.
  • Worked closely with business resources to reign in AWS spending and proposed AWS cost savings plans.

DevOps Tech Lead

Hi Marley
01.2023 - 01.2025
  • Led a 3-person DevOps team, overseeing AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions.
  • Built a modernized Terraform infrastructure, migrating legacy configurations to improve deployment efficiency.
  • Pioneered single-tenant environments within a previously multi-tenant framework, enhancing client customization.
  • Partnered with cybersecurity to align and implement critical security standards and goals with AWS security solutions.
  • Developed a new CI/CD system with GitHub Actions, supporting serverless, Terraform, and container-based projects.
  • Optimized Datadog observability, creating custom metrics, dashboards, monitors, and indexes for better insights.
  • Primary contact for operations tooling, collaborating with AWS, Google, MongoDB, and other services.
  • Orchestrated the migration from a local MongoDB provider to MongoDB Atlas.
  • Led a complete overhaul of secrets management, migrating to AWS Secrets Manager.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support, ensuring platform reliability and minimal downtime.
  • Directed the transition of self-hosted Looker BI to Looker Cloud on GCP.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Project44
12.2020 - 12.2023
  • Drove infrastructure, automation, and deployment projects, enhancing system stability and performance.
  • Engineered a production Kafka deployment on Kubernetes using Strimzi Operator.
  • Led a cross-cloud migration of over 60 databases and services from AWS to GCP, ensuring seamless transition with proxy services.
  • Enhanced incident response processes, refining protocols for improved response times and resolution.
  • Partnered with project managers to streamline DevOps tasks, enforce SLAs, and balance team workload.
  • Reduced cloud expenses and optimized infrastructure through cost-saving measures.
  • Coordinated with InfoSec to provide SOC2/ISO audit evidence, building secure DevOps workflows.
  • Maintained and upgraded Jenkins and Spinnaker CI/CD systems, standardizing infrastructure and enhancing scaling.
  • Led a GitHub Actions CI/CD redesign, creating an automation-first platform to support engineering independently.

DevOps Engineer

DRIVIN
03.2019 - 12.2020
  • Enhanced CI/CD systems, deploying Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and alerting.
  • Developed custom data collectors, event streams, and Grafana integrations to boost AWS resource observability.
  • Standardized Git repository processes and implemented a full IaC approach via a modular Terraform repository.
  • Created self-healing core services, including Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, and Grafana.
  • Supported production incident management and resolved outages to maintain service continuity.
  • Built a CI/CD system from scratch with Jenkins in a 100% AWS cloud environment.
  • Developed a Jenkins Shared Library for consistent configuration, image building, and secrets management.

Platform Engineer

Drive
08.2018 - 03.2019
  • Helped to develop a mobile application in React Native for IOS. Worked with one other developer to design, plan and manage the development process.
  • Built backend systems using AWS Lambda.
  • Designed server infrastructure and deployment methods for code delivery and database configuration.

DevOps Internship

Uptake
04.2018 - 08.2018
  • Supported Kubernetes-based infrastructure development, created Golang CLI tools for CI/CD metrics, and built Slack bots for automated JIRA ticketing.

DevOps Internship

Cars.com
04.2016 - 08.2018
  • Held internships over 2 years participating on frontend, backend, full stack, mobile apps, and devops teams.
  • Led various development projects, including Android app creation, web interface design, and tools for CI/CD metrics reporting.
  • Developed solutions for CI/CD pipeline management, improving deployment, rollback, and automation workflows.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information And Technology

Purdue University Calumet
Hammond

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: Extensive AWS experience (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager, Redshift, EKS, ECS), GCP (Looker, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage)
  • DevOps Tools: Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform (IaC), Prometheus, Datadog (monitoring/observability)
  • Programming & Scripting: Bash, Python, Golang, JavaScript (Angular, React Native), Java, Ruby, C
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitHub Actions (pipeline automation and orchestration across various environments)
  • Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (custom metrics, dashboards, monitoring setups), Grafana (custom collectors, alerting)
  • Data Management & Databases: MongoDB (Atlas, on-prem migration), Kafka, managed event and message streaming
  • Automation & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm (managing deployments, scaling solutions)
  • Security & Compliance: Experience with SOC2/ISO audit compliance, implementing security protocols, and managing DevOps evidence for InfoSec teams

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer II

Mathpix
01.2025 - Current

DevOps Tech Lead

Hi Marley
01.2023 - 01.2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

Project44
12.2020 - 12.2023

DevOps Engineer

DRIVIN
03.2019 - 12.2020

Platform Engineer

Drive
08.2018 - 03.2019

DevOps Internship

Uptake
04.2018 - 08.2018

DevOps Internship

Cars.com
04.2016 - 08.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Information And Technology

Purdue University Calumet

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