Eric Tabot
DevOps/DevSecOps Engineer with strong experience supporting regulated industries, cloud environments, and secure CI/CD automation. Proven track record delivering high‑availability platforms for financial services, healthcare, and enterprise IT. Skilled in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, cloud security, SCA (Software Composition Analysis), SBOM generation, and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR, CSSF expectations).
Multilingual (EN/DE/FR) with leadership experience across cross‑functional teams. Known for reliability, incident ownership, and building secure, automated, and scalable infrastructure.
Work History
DevSecOps Engineer - Clinical Trials
1 Year 11 Months- Facilitated seamless software delivery by leveraging CI/CD tools like GitLab, Jenkins, and GitOps to automate deployment to Kubernetes environments.
- Developed and implemented Terraform scripts for automated infrastructure provisioning, streamlining setup processes and standardizing environment configurations.
- Executed configuration management strategies leveraging Ansible, guaranteeing reliable and consistent application states across a network of servers.
- Developed and enforced DAST/SAST security measures within CI/CD workflows, effectively reducing vulnerabilities during deployment.
- Engineered monitoring solutions through Datadog and Grafana, delivering real-time insights into system health metrics, traces, and logs for improved operational decision-making.
Startup Founder
3 Years 5 Months- Business Owner of a trucking business with a fleet of three semi-trucks
Startup Founder
4 Years 1 Month- Business Owner: Managed multiple braiding salons across Dayton, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky, to provide job opportunities and support community development.
Lead Technical Product Owner - DevSecOps
1 Year 9 Months- Orchestrated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for enhanced software delivery.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to streamline operations.
- Led cross-functional teams to implement DevOps best practices, improving collaboration between development and operations.
- Managed multiple project backlogs, prioritized, ensured alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
Sr. Technical Product Owner - Cloud Services
2 Years 1 Month- Led cross-functional teams in adopting DevOps practices, improving collaboration between development and operations.
- Spearheaded migration initiatives from traditional data centers to AWS, resulting in reduced operational overheads and improved scalability.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables aligned with business goals.
- Developed user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations.
- Prioritized product backlog to maximize value delivery in agile development processes.
Technical Product Owner - DevOps
1 Year 8 Months- Managed stakeholders, owned the product backlog and prioritize PB items based on business needs
- Implemented Agile methodologies to streamline development processes and improve team efficiency.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab for streamlined deployment processes.
- Enabled smoother deployments through close collaboration with DevOps teams in optimizing build pipelines and automating deployment processes where feasible.
Sr. Technical Product Owner
1 Year- Used implemented scrum and kanban approaches to efficiently manage project needs
- Delivered 6 projects per year with consistent record of meeting timeline, scope and budget requirements
- Collaborated with product and engineering team members to define and develop new product concepts
- Lead Agile team in development web applications within Agile framework
- Agile requirements engineering
- Stayed current on emerging technologies and trends that could benefit production process
Technical Project Manager
1 Year- Agile Project Manager/ Software Architect for in-house and outsourced projects in India and Pakistan
- Managed 2 projects while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements
- Prioritized product backlog based on business value
- Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service
- Recommended architectural improvements, design solutions and integration solutions
- Implemented Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies
Lead Software Engineer
2 Years 10 MonthsFreelance Backend Engineer
2 MonthsLead Software Engineer
1 Year 4 MonthsHead of IT
8 MonthsApplication Engineer
1 Year 8 MonthsApplication Engineer
2 Years 2 MonthsEducation
DevOps Engineering - Information Technology
MBA - Healthcare Management
Master of Science - Computer Science
Skills
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Effective Cross-Functional Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Agile software development
Certification
- Good Clinical Practice v5
- Certified Scrum Master(PSM)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner(PSPO)
- SaFe 4 Agilist - Leading SaFe
- Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering(CPRE)
- ITIL v4
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- AWS Certified Solution Architect
- AWS Certified Security Specialty ( Ongoing )
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional ( Ongoing )
- Kubernetes ( Ongoing )
- PMP
- Terraform
- Hashicorp Vault
- Certified Operational Excellence ( OPEX ) Expert
- Certified Lean Management And Manufacturing Expert
- Certified Risk Management FMEA ISO 31000 Expert
- Certified Process Improvement And Process Mapping Expert
Accomplishments
- Kubernetes Platform Engineering & GitOps Automation
Designed and deployed a production‑grade Kubernetes platform (EKS/AKS) with full GitOps automation. Implemented ArgoCD, Helm, and Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning across environments. Integrated OPA/Kyverno for policy enforcement, RBAC hardening, Pod Security Standards, and network policies. Built an observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, reducing MTTR by 40%. Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI, enabling fully declarative and secure application delivery.
Key technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, OPA/Kyverno, Datadog, Grafana Stack ( Prometheus, Loki, Tempo ), GitLab CI, Jenkins.
- End‑to‑End DevSecOps Pipeline Modernization
Led the modernization of enterprise CI/CD pipelines by integrating DevSecOps controls including SAST, DAST, SBOM generation, dependency scanning, and container vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube). Implemented secrets management using HashiCorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager. Used AWS KMS to auto-unseal Hashicorp Vault, Automated compliance checks using OPA. Reduced critical vulnerabilities by 80% and improved deployment reliability through automated testing, artifact signing, and environment promotion workflows.
Key technologies: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS KMS, OPA, SBOM.
- Cloud Infrastructure Automation & Cost Optimization
Developed reusable Terraform modules to provision standardized infrastructure across AWS, including networking, compute, IAM. Implemented automated cost‑monitoring dashboards and alerting using CloudWatch. Migrated legacy workloads to containerized microservices, reducing cloud spend by 30%. Integrated Ansible for configuration management and automated environment bootstrapping and scaffolding.
Key technologies: Terraform, Ansible, AWS, AWS CloudWatch, Docker, microservices.
Additional Information
Spoken Languages:
- German
- English
- French
- Creol
Hobbys
- Taking IT courses
- Gym
- IT Meetups