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Brandon Rodriguez

Phoenix,USA

Summary

SRE with focus on actionable monitoring, self-healing, and reduction of toil in mixed-stack environments. Expertise includes Python, automation, research and design, and troubleshooting. Familiar with disparate and distributed systems across technical domains.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Confidential
07.2021 - Current
  • Embedded SRE for platform observability processing billions of events per month.
  • Responsible for maintaining reliability of ~200 servers comprising various services, and 4 of 12 'critical business domains'
  • Python, PowerShell, .NET, Windows, Linux, Docker, Azure, New Relic, SCOM, Splunk, StackStorm, systems design, HA, load balancing.

Site Reliability Engineer

RSI
02.2021 - 07.2021
  • CI/CD, application, database, network, and cloud infrastructure support
  • Responsible for implementation of tax revenue software to state departments of treasury, processing millions of tax records per year
  • Responsible for maintaining system during integration, ~20 servers depending on environment size, and all related services
  • Implemented Azure DevOps pipeline job to automatically verify database after software build, reducing build time by 10% or roughly 6 minutes
  • Python, PowerShell, .NET, Windows, Linux, Docker, Azure, Azure DevOps, SCOM, systems design, HA, load balancing

Site Reliability Center Engineer

Nuance Communications
06.2020 - 02.2021
  • Python, PowerShell, .NET, Windows, Linux, Docker, Azure, Azure DevOps, SCOM, systems design, HA, load balancing

Technical Operations Support Engineer

Woodfield Distribution, LLC
11.2019 - 06.2020

Network Administrator

ComputerAid, Inc
03.2017 - 11.2019

Education

Bachelor of General Studies - Integrative General Studies

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
2020

Skills

    Automation

    Python

    Splunk

    Docker

    Microsoft Azure

    CI/CD

    Terraform

    Microsoft Windows

    Scripting

    DevOps

    Site Reliability

    APIs

    System design

    System monitoring

Recent Projects

  • Azure Monitor distributed monitoring system design using Azure Arc-enabled servers, Azure Monitor Connected Machine agent, Azure Event Hubs, Log Analytics Workspaces, Azure AI Ops, Splunk, Azure Function Apps, Azure Hybrid Runbook Workers, and Service Now for a complete end-to-end solution, including Python modules to easily deploy new custom monitors.
  • Integration design and deployment of cloud-native enterprise printing application for ~250000 users, including capacity planning, security analysis, and monitoring.
  • Design and development of non-standard monitoring solution for Cisco Webex, Cisco Call Center Manager, and related Cisco collaboration platforms utilizing Cisco REST and SOAP APIs and Splunk.
  • Design and development of non-standard monitoring solution for Kaltura video streaming platform using vendor APIs and server syslogging.
  • Custom Python logging handler to emit events to Splunk asynchronously and simultaneously with the main thread's logging.
  • Custom Python 'base monitor' (abstract class) to quickly deploy new monitors.

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Confidential
07.2021 - Current

Site Reliability Engineer

RSI
02.2021 - 07.2021

Site Reliability Center Engineer

Nuance Communications
06.2020 - 02.2021

Technical Operations Support Engineer

Woodfield Distribution, LLC
11.2019 - 06.2020

Network Administrator

ComputerAid, Inc
03.2017 - 11.2019

Bachelor of General Studies - Integrative General Studies

University of Central Florida
Brandon Rodriguez