Open To Work
Elvis Lim
Rocklin,CA
Work Preference
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, Identity Center, Control Tower, EKS, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Redshift, Redis, Serverless Aurora postgresql, Lambda, etc
- AWS cloud security and networking
- Cloudflare 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
Principal Engineer (Freelance/Consulting)
Stealth Startup
Rocklin, CA
08.2025 - Current
- Optimize engineering processes by implementing innovative solutions and streamlining workflows.
- Analyzed and interpret customer requirements to develop engineering solutions.
- Workflow and Process automation solutions engineering
- AWS Cloud management
- AWS EKS design and workload management
- Kubernetes AI/ML workload deployment
- AI/ML workflow/workload automation
- Optimized Kafka to Elasticsearch data indexing pipelines for RAG to ground LLM assisted analysis
- Localize LLM model inference infrastructure using LLM studio and Ollama
- Task automation with N8N, RAG and LLMs
- Agentic system deployment and customization (openclaw, hermes, zeroclaw)
Senior DevOps Engineer
Vidrovr, Inc`
(Remote), California
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
Remote - California
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
Remote - California
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, Philippines1994
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
Principal Engineer (Freelance/Consulting)
Stealth Startup
08.2025 - Current
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)