IAN EZELL
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
Driven DevOps engineer with a passion for automation. Years of experience in cloud computing, Python programming, data platforms, and implementing best practices in a software organization. Seeking a new environment to continue to grow and develop.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
KKR
02.2022 - Current
- Enhanced system stability by implementing robust monitoring and alerting solutions
- Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
- Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement in the software delivery process.
- Deployed and maintained multiple Kubernetes serivces such as External-Secrets, Kyverno, Ha-Proxy. Keal, and custom made operators.
DevOps Engineer
Schneider Electric
02.2020 - 02.2022
- Lead the organization's DevOps initiative among multiple scrum teams
- Developed ETL pipeline written in Python
- Helped architected ETL pipelines using AWS, Databricks, and Airflow
- Developed CI/CD pipeline for +100 pipelines using Jenkins
- Deployed CI/CD pipeline for containers into Kubernetes
- Managed and deployed various applications with Kubernetes and containers such as Airflow, Qlik Replicate, and Dash reporting webservices
- Oversaw and implemented an organization upgrade of Airflow 1.0 to Airflow 2.0 with minimal downtime of a few minutes.
DevOps Engineer II
Permanent General Assurance Corporation
08.2017 - 02.2020
- Supported legacy infrastructure as the Web Architect with Salt, Tomcat, Apache Server, Kubernetes, ELK stack, and a Netscaler
- Supported AWS infrastructure as a DevOps Engineer with tools such as Terraform, Packer, and Elastic
- Supported Data Science team as a DevOps Engineer with similar tools for EMR (Spark Cluster), Juypiter cluster, misc machine learning tools
- Helped develop and deploy a rewritten CMS in node.js
- Developed python scripts for automation pipelines
- Helped develop Lambda functions in AWS written in Python
- Assisted Data Science group to containerize Python applications.
Data Scientist
Noblis
10.2014 - 04.2017
- Contributed to multiple Noblis Sponsored Research (NSR) projects and contracts
- Learned multiple programming languages with little experience outside of academics
- Worked on High Performance Computers including a Cray XMT-2
- Utilized C programming with Python injects and to use for heavy lifting in multithreading and distributed programs
- Started High School Development Program (teaching programming)
- Developed programs in Python involving web scrapping, web deployment (backend), and high performance applications
- Helped develop models and algorithms for image processing and cryptography.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona08.2013
Skills
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- AWS
- Helm
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
KKR
02.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Schneider Electric
02.2020 - 02.2022
DevOps Engineer II
Permanent General Assurance Corporation
08.2017 - 02.2020
Data Scientist
Noblis
10.2014 - 04.2017
Bachelor of Science - Applied Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences
Arizona State University
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