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David Gorin

Acworth,GA

Summary

Accomplished Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Verizon Business, adept in AWS and GCP, driving cloud-native application development and cost containment strategies. Proven leader in mentoring teams and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and compliance across multi-cloud environments.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SENIOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT

Verizon Business
11.2022 - 04.2025
  • Delivered presentations on design considerations and integrations to upper management and engineering teams.
  • Analyzed third-party products for integration into Verizon security and multi-cloud offerings.
  • Developed code examples and production Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for custom network management in AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Python3, and GitLab CI.
  • Provided guidance on cloud best practices to engineering teams.
  • Created Terraform, Python, and GitLab CI jobs to enhance private connectivity across all three major cloud service providers.
  • Collaborated with vendors and internal teams to design test harnesses simulating real-world scenarios.

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Clearwave Corporation
11.2021 - 11.2022
  • Presentations on cloud native infrastructure and SaaS app design to upper management and developers.
  • Creates business cases for specific technologies and methodologies.
  • Guides developers on 12 Factor, containerized and cloud native techniques.
  • Designs and implements cloud infrastructure via Terraform, Python3 and AzureDevOps (DirectConnect, VPN, SSO, ECS, artifact repositories, cloud migrations, 3rd party interfaces, ASGs, security…)
  • Creates POCs of container strategies to move C#.NET monolith to .NET Core micro services using EKS and ECS.

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER

NCR Digital Banking
06.2021 - 10.2021
  • Designed and implemented squad model and ticket/project management process for all of SRE.
  • Organized squads and assigned leaders.
  • Redesigned entire ingress model, including Kubernetes (GKE) to compensate for GCP networking gaps (CloudFlare, GCLB, GKE, nginx ingress controllers).
  • Designed and wrote all the utilities used to migrate banks from on-premise, fail them over and enable/disable features in CloudFlare (Python3)
  • Took over entire SRE department when manager departed suddenly (40+ employees and contractors).
  • Implemented Architecture Review Board with Infrastructure and Enterprise architects to centralize design approvals and gain economies of scale.

SENIOR CLOUD ARCHITECT

First Republic Bank
11.2020 - 06.2021
  • Architect and Product Owner for AWS AMI CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Spinnaker) including promotion approvals and inline security testing.
  • Coach teams to integrate agile processes in DevOps.
  • Report directly to CIO.
  • Form and up-skill new SRE team.
  • Utilize Spinnaker for custom machine image and container building and support inline security scans.
  • Assist Ansible and Ansible Tower team in zero-downtime deployment of script fixes after an error was propagated to 140+ servers.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING LEAD

Equifax Data Fabric - Keying and Linking
01.2020 - 11.2020
  • Manage a team of 6 engineers.
  • Spearhead compliance, including FedRAMP/FISMA-moderate.
  • Implement code for inline compliance checking (Python3, Boto).
  • Architect and implement fault tolerance and high availability for my segment and assist other segments in best practices and techniques to meet business SLAs.
  • Mentor developers and SRE's on cloud and high-performance computing concepts.
  • Develop and implement standards for logging, SLA tracking, audit and monitoring.

TECHNICAL PRINCIPAL

Contino
12.2018 - 12.2019
  • Project for Verizon Business - AWS/Kubernetes migration for 6 on premise, monolithic applications for a major telecomm company.
  • Managed a team of 5.
  • Worked with teams to create cloud native architectures for each app.
  • Designed and helped build shared services (centralized logging [ELK], Federated IdAM, CI/CD pipelines for both IaC and applications).
  • Worked with compliance team to translate security requirements into cloud implementations.
  • Designed governance gateway to integrate compliance checks into build pipelines.
  • Project for DealerTrack (Cox Automotive) - Code quality analysis and improvement and non-prod environment dynamic configuration for one of the largest auto dealer SaaS companies in the US.
  • Managed a team of 7.
  • Performed full SDLC assessments for two of the ten engineering teams.
  • Worked with DevOps team to automate environment management.
  • Taught best practices to teams for defensive programming, branching/merging strategies, test coverage and input validation.
  • Worked with Q/A for configuration management automation of test environments.

CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

TekStream Solutions
01.2018 - 12.2018
  • Project for Chick Fil A - AWS Cost Optimization for a major fast food corporation.
  • Built custom tooling to analyze infrastructure utilization and identify areas of concern.
  • Conducted interviews with key teams to identify apps that were not properly leveraging cloud resources.
  • Made recommendations, supplied tools and mentoring to allow customer personnel to effectively reduce costs.
  • Project for MarketingOne - Design and script (Software Defined Infrastructure) production grade, scalable, fault tolerant Kubernetes cluster in AWS without using EKS due to customer requirement.
  • Determined best technology stack options and presented them to customer with pros/cons for each.
  • Tested resulting cluster for optimal fit to their requirements.
  • Wrote a template engine and associated kops and Terraform templates to generate cluster from a standard Java properties file.
  • Documented the tools and procedures to maintain clusters including deployments and modifications.
  • Project - AWS Cloud Audit for a small marketing firm.
  • Reviewed all security and infrastructure for AWS best practices.
  • Wrote up findings and provided recommendations and mentoring for remediation of problem areas including a stepwise approach to make progress with very limited personnel.
  • Project - Training and Mentoring.
  • Created and presented numerous Lunch and Learn sessions on AWS topics for TekStream Delivery personnel.
  • Created training materials and student exercises for custom AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification for a large customer.
  • Materials emphasized their best practices and favored AWS products.
  • Frequent speaker at AWS Atlanta.
  • Taught Internet Security and IT Career Options at a local high school.
  • Project for State of Florida - Migrate state retirement portal from datacenter to AWS.
  • Designed the complete AWS infrastructure.
  • Worked with stakeholders to map out lift and shift and future cloud first strategies and costs.
  • Assisted with the actual migration of the database (Oracle 12c) and app servers.
  • Created and implemented mandated disaster recovery logic and procedures.
  • Project - TekStream AWS Infrastructure.
  • Responsible for the design and implementation of all TekStream infrastructure in AWS including security, cost containment and SOC I and SOC II compliance.

CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

The Weather Company - an IBM business
12.2016 - 12.2017
  • Responsible for cloud first app architecture and cost containment for the entire enterprise.
  • Provided recommendations and mentoring to development, analytics and DevOps teams.
  • Provided cost optimization tooling and processes that cut AWS spending in half in less than 6 months.

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT

Chick Fil A Corporate
06.2016 - 11.2016
  • Designed and built near real time stream loader from DynamoDB tables to RedShift (DynamoDB, DDB Streams, KCL, Redshift, S3, Java).
  • Created processes and automation for deploying mission critical apps to specific availability zones and regions (AWS CLI, AWSConfig, JSON, custom environment analysis applications, AWS Linux).

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT

Candid Partners
04.2016 - 06.2016
  • Project for CocaCola - Designed and built real-time streaming producer and consumers for RESTful API calls of the CCNA consumer gateway (Kinesis, KPL, KCL, Java).
  • Project for CocaCola - Created log files to S3 archiving process (logrotate.d, SED, AWS S3Client, AWS Linux).
  • Project for Kind Bars - Evaluate security posture of their cloud infrastructure and recommend remediations.

CLOUD AND AWS ARCHITECT

Teradata Marketing Applications
03.2015 - 03.2016
  • Assisted software teams in architecting solutions for Amazon Web Services.
  • Defined standards.
  • Created ROI presentations for utilizing AWS components versus traditional datacenter.
  • Created proof of concept projects for utilizing AWS and other public/private cloud technologies.
  • Researched and recommended best practices for utilizing cloud for application development, deployment and support.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (SDE II)

fabric.com an Amazon subsidiary
01.2014 - 02.2015
  • Design and development of warehouse fulfillment systems including order verification, dynamic product location switching, reactive replenishment and replenishment analysis (real time dashboards).
  • Created new development framework used for web development and built first applications using it (RESTful web services, Spring MVC).
  • Architected cloud environment for fabric.com main website.
  • Technologies – Amazon Web Services (ElasticBeanstalk, Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, S3, SQS), Java, Oracle, Dojo Toolkit, JavaScript, Spring Framework, JSTL, JPA, Hibernate, Tomcat, JAX-RS, Maven, Gradle, Ubuntu, RHEL.

Education

B.B.A - Computer and Information Sciences

Temple University Fox School of Business
01.1983

Skills

  • AWS and GCP
  • Java and Python
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Containerization and orchestration
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Salesforce administration
  • C/C programming
  • 12 Factor applications
  • Leadership and mentoring
  • Security and compliance frameworks
  • Cloud-native application development
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Infrastructure for ML and analytics
  • Cost containment strategies

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
  • AWS Big Data Specialty
  • AWS Developer Associate
  • AWS Certification Subject Matter Expert
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • Docker Developer
  • GCP Architect Professional - coming 06/25
  • AWS Machine Learning Specialty - coming 05/25

Skills And Expertise

  • AWS, 10+ yrs
  • Java, 26 yrs
  • IaC, 9 yrs
  • SDLC, 23 yrs
  • GCP, 5 yrs
  • Python, 6 yrs
  • Containerization, 6 yrs
  • IoT, 5 yrs
  • Salesforce, 10 yrs
  • C/C++, 17 yrs
  • 12 Factor, 27 yrs
  • Leadership, 33 yrs
  • Security and Compliance (HIPAA, FISMA, SOC, ISO, GDPR/CCNA, PCI, CIS), 15 yrs
  • Cloud Native and AWS Well Architected app development, 10 yrs
  • SRE Transformations, 7 yrs
  • Infra for ML/Analytics, 7 yrs
  • Mentoring/Up-skilling, 33 yrs
  • Cost Containment, 9 yrs

Timeline

SENIOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT

Verizon Business
11.2022 - 04.2025

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Clearwave Corporation
11.2021 - 11.2022

SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER

NCR Digital Banking
06.2021 - 10.2021

SENIOR CLOUD ARCHITECT

First Republic Bank
11.2020 - 06.2021

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING LEAD

Equifax Data Fabric - Keying and Linking
01.2020 - 11.2020

TECHNICAL PRINCIPAL

Contino
12.2018 - 12.2019

CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

TekStream Solutions
01.2018 - 12.2018

CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

The Weather Company - an IBM business
12.2016 - 12.2017

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT

Chick Fil A Corporate
06.2016 - 11.2016

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT

Candid Partners
04.2016 - 06.2016

CLOUD AND AWS ARCHITECT

Teradata Marketing Applications
03.2015 - 03.2016

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (SDE II)

fabric.com an Amazon subsidiary
01.2014 - 02.2015

B.B.A - Computer and Information Sciences

Temple University Fox School of Business

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