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Elvis Lim

Rocklin,CA

Summary

Experienced technologist with over 20 years of experience in technology industry. Well verse in cloud technologies on-premise or public cloud. Believes in "Persistence beats Resistance!" Not afraid to try new things and adopt new technology concepts. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements.

Skills

  • AWS cloud resource provisioning using IaC (terraform), includes SSO, Identy Center, Control Tower, EKS, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Redshift, Redis, Serverless Aurora postgresql, Lambda, etc
  • AWS cloud security and networking
  • Clouflare VPN, site protection
  • GitOps with Github/FluxCD workflow and actions
  • Observability with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog
  • Infrastructure as code with Atmos/Terraform (Hashicorp)/Opentofu/Ansible
  • Docker image building and container orchestration
  • ETL pipeline development using fluentbit/opentelemetry/logstash/filebeat/streamsets
  • Kubernetes Elasticsearch cluster implementation and operations
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB implementation and operations
  • Microservice deployment optimization and performance analysis
  • Network Installation and troubleshooting
  • Network packet level analysis with wireshark/tcpdump
  • Network design and implementation of best practices
  • Linux/Unix variant and Windows Operating system familiarity
  • Languages used terraform hcl, powershell, bash, python, java and nodejs

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Vidrovr, Inc`
09.2023 - 08.2025
  • Reduced software deployment times with the introduction of GitOps CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automated certificate creation syncing and renewal for internal services running in kubernetes integration.
  • Facilitate migration from long term credentials to OIDC f,or CI/CD, AWS postgres/aurora, terraform cloud integraton.
  • Responsible for FinOps, monitoring resource cloud usage and create recommendations to purchase pre-paid contracts to save approximately 30% of monthly spend. Optimized how traffic traverse through AWS for accessing cloud resources to avoid transit traffic costs
  • Facilitate Google workspace and AWS SSO integration for group/user permission management and access to cloud resources
  • Prototyped Knative and Kserve deployment strategies for scale to zero pods, utilizing GitOps for new ML and API microservices.
  • Prototyped cloud in a box, by simplifying application component deployment into a single hardware system with GPU for ML workloads. System was used in demo air-gapped environment at remote location for video processing.
  • Developed custom scripts using Python or Bash languages to automate repetitive tasks or integrate disparate systems effectively streamlining workflows across software development cycles.

Principal Cloud Engineer (Consulting/Contract)

Stealth Startup
06.2023 - Current
  • Design implementation plan for high security cloud environments to handle sensitive data
  • Documented system configuration, mapping and processes.
  • Supported system users, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols.
  • Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
  • Collaborated with executive team to define business requirements and systems goals.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Olo, Inc
01.2021 - 06.2023
  • Build AWS based services with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform
  • Created Github Workflow/Actions to build container images for deployment to Kubernetes
  • Part of migration team to deploy applications to EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
  • Developed playbooks for Ansible (Tower/AWX) for various automation tasks.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
  • Built and Maintained distributed systems like Kafka, Elasticsearch for menu and ordering applications.
  • Authored IAC (Infrastrucutre as Code) fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.

Senior System Engineer

Williams Sonoma Inc.
07.2019 - 01.2021
  • Elasticsearch SME
  • Collaborated with application developers/users to determine need and devise appropriate software solutions
  • Design k8s/k3s cluster deployment for dedicated elasticsearch cluster for teams
  • Analyze growth and usage of elasticsearch indices and recommend optimization of configuration
  • Analyze and recommend optimization of X-Pack watcher to reduce cpu/memory usage
  • Performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Symantec Corp.
04.2013 - 07.2019
  • Increased automated product testing efficiency via operational workflow optimization
  • DevOps infrastructure architect - implement best practices for Vmware Infrastructure/Container(docker) Infrastructure/BigData (Elasticsearch/Kafka) Infrastructure
  • Determined optimal deployment methods via infrastructure as code using terraform
  • Lead engineer for research, experimented and performed proof of concept on new emerging technologies to continuously improve and evolve infrastructure
  • Designed/architect logging infrastructure to centralize container and application logs using Apache Kafka
  • Developed/enhanced data pipelines to extract performance and utilization data into Elasticsearch using logstash, filebeats and streamsets
  • Improved existing Icinga/Nagios alerting/monitoring via plugins
  • Implemented prometheus metrics collection for areas not covered by existing monitoring system
  • Assisted developers in troubleshooting performance in newly deployed microservices in containers
  • Developed container based microservice to send usage statistics using Node.js
  • Created dashboards for prometheus metrics using Grafana and added new alerting for container stack level
  • Monitored impacts of changes to infrastructure and operating systems, effectively determining courses of actions based on error conditions
  • Defined engineering/performance problems, collected data, established facts and drew conclusions to solve issues

Principal SQA Engineer

Symantec Corp
04.2003 - 04.2013
  • Architected automation infrastructure using VMware Vsphere/Vcloud/LabManager for Symantec Endpoint Protection product testing (Helios)
  • SQA Automation Architect
  • SQA Lead for imbedded IDS/IPS engine
  • SQA Lead for IDS/IPS product network performance
  • SQA Lead for IDS/IPS product integration testing
  • Automation framework administrator (Helios) - Java/Postgresql

Principal Systems Engineer

Symantec Corp
04.2002 - 04.2003
  • System Design/Architect Intrusion Detection System
  • Pre-sales and Post-sales support roles
  • Systems deployment and planning
  • Conducted POC and technical presentations and demonstrations

Principal Systems Engineer

Recourse Technologies (Acquired By Symantec)
04.2001 - 04.2002
  • Conduct POC and technical presentations
  • Presales and Post sales roles
  • Manhunt Intrusion detection system deployment
  • Mantrap honeypot system deployments
  • Wireshark/Tcpdump deep packet analysis and signature creation using Snort rules
  • Developed scripts to create ACL rules to router and shunt malicious traffic

CTO/Senior Network Consultant

Overseas Experience
06.1994 - 03.2001
  • Network Design/Architect for Enterprise and Telecommunications Companies
  • Pre-sales and Post-Sales Roles
  • Network design, planning and implementation

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT)
Manila, Philippines
1994

Certification

Massachusetts Institute of Technology SLOAN School of Management (2018)

Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy

https://mitsloan.credential.getsmarter.com/iywdr3up


CCIE - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (1999) CCIE#4417

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Vidrovr, Inc`
09.2023 - 08.2025

Principal Cloud Engineer (Consulting/Contract)

Stealth Startup
06.2023 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Olo, Inc
01.2021 - 06.2023

Senior System Engineer

Williams Sonoma Inc.
07.2019 - 01.2021

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Symantec Corp.
04.2013 - 07.2019

Principal SQA Engineer

Symantec Corp
04.2003 - 04.2013

Principal Systems Engineer

Symantec Corp
04.2002 - 04.2003

Principal Systems Engineer

Recourse Technologies (Acquired By Symantec)
04.2001 - 04.2002

CTO/Senior Network Consultant

Overseas Experience
06.1994 - 03.2001

Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT)

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