Kevin Crawley
Nashville,United States
Summary
Experienced platform engineering professional with expertise in system architecture and cloud environments. Demonstrated success in executing large-scale modernization projects, improving infrastructure, and automating processes for increased operational efficiency. Committed to collaborating with teams and adapting to project requirements, while maintaining alignment with executives and peers. Highly skilled in infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud services. Recognized for reliability and strong problem-solving abilities.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Engineer (Oculus Studios / Supernatural)
Meta
03.2023 - 12.2024
- Technical lead for post-acquisition integration and migration of both client-facing and server side components onto Meta infrastructure and development tooling
- Migrated mobile applications off external 3rd party systems and onto internal build and development tooling systems that leverage Buck, Bazel, and other proprietary platforms
- Migrated clients to Meta internal authentication systems for use by non-Oculus applications to access GraphAPI/QL endpoints
- Initial implementation of ETL process and system used for transferring live production data from RDS postgres database into Meta infrastructure and storage system (Entity Framework/GraphQL)
- KTLO and compliance migrations for legacy EKS managed services while customer data and API services are migrated onto Meta managed systems (Hack/HHVM, GraphQL)
DevOps Engineering Manager
Within / Supernatural (acquired by Meta)
09.2021 - 02.2023
- Raised application reliability from 98% to five nines, reaching 100% uptime
- Initial lead implementing and overseeing a modernization effort using GitOps, moving all microservice applications out of Elastic Beanstalk and into Elastic Kubernetes using ArgoCD, Helm, and Github Actions
- Completed the move of over a dozen mission critical services in under 1 year
- Migrated from a single AWS root account to multiple sub-accounts bifurcating development and production
- Planned and Implemented business continuity measures including off-site database backups (break-glass) and cross-account / region S3 replication for critical assets
- Implemented AWS Shield and WAF for increased security and reliability
- Migrated multiple systems out of GCP/GKE, increasing reliability and stability
- Implemented Datadog APM, Logging, Profiling to all microservice applications, drastically improving observability and providing engineers with the ability to improve reliability
- Migrated all back end CI build systems from Jenkins to Github Actions
- Implemented full GitOps CI/CD support with ArgoCD / Argo Rollouts including Canary Testing and Blue Green deployments
- Brought 100% of AWS cloud assets under Terraform management
- Planned and executed major cross-account / region multi-database migration with zero defects and < 6 hours of scheduled downtime
- Implemented AWS SSO (IAM Identity Center) for cloud access management
- Implemented org-wide cloud VPN for accessing internal tooling
- Integrated Sonarsource code quality scanning across all backend applications
- Oversaw the reduction of cloud spend by 40%
- Interviewed and hired three seasoned DevOps engineers to the organization, two of which have seen promotion
- Responsible for a significant reduction in lead time, MTTR, and deployment times (from 2-3h to < 5m)
- Supported the largest increase in developer productivity (contributions, PRs, and CI jobs) in the engineering organizations history
VP, Director of Engineering
Single Music
04.2017 - 09.2021
- Company Overview: Shopify Music Distribution Tools
- Early stage startup consultant and co-owner
- Hired full-time in 2020 to manage software engineers focused on product development, implemented tooling to help them set and measure their goals quarterly, with frequent one-on-ones to provide feedback and track progress on those goals
- Achieved 62% productivity gain within six months by incorporating Scrum techniques.
- Ensure developers focus on observability, quality, sustainability, and scalability through frequent code and architecture reviews
- Responsible for multi-region / multi-az hybrid deployment of 30+ java/spring boot microservices running on EKS (Kubernetes), migrated from in-house Docker Swarm solution
- Utilized Datadog for performance management, logging and availability monitoring (distributed tracing).
- Developed and sustained tooling for developers to deploy Kubernetes environments locally.
Lead Developer Advocate
Traefik Labs
04.2020 - 01.2021
- Established and maintained an editorial process and calendar for the marketing team to publish technical articles and blog posts
- Successfully planned and executed Traefik Lab's first Hackathon, which saw over 50 contributions from dozens of contributors
- This event lead to the hiring one of Traefik Labs first interns
- Established Open Source office hours where members of the community were invited to converse and collaborate with the open source development team
- Worked with the open source development team to author and publish a maintainers guide and began the process of grooming good first issues and help-wanted issues
- Successfully implement Grimoire, a tool for measuring open source contributions to all public repositories, giving product owners and stakeholders the ability to see who was contributing what, how often, and where
Senior DevOps Advocate
Instana
04.2018 - 04.2020
- Develop and deliver highly technical content including webinars, tutorials and workshops on topics including Observability, Monitoring, K8S, Docker, and CI/CD
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver highly technical content, including tutorials and demos, relating to new features and capabilities
- Author blog posts and articles with an emphasis on leveraging Instana as a solution for organizations who are implementing Cloud Native applications and work flows
- Build and deliver case studies, webinars, and white papers in collaboration with customers, partners, and internal staff
Lead DevOps Engineer
Franklin American Mortgage Company
08.2016 - 03.2018
- Lead the initiative to establish Cloud Native workflows and tooling in Franklin American's software organization
- Worked with a small team to build the tools which empower an organization with over 50 developers to rapidly prototype and deliver new products and services
- Championed DevOps culture and workflows allowing developers to build and manage their application in automated processes that significantly reduced operational costs
- Collaborated with Senior Architects to construct a cohesive application stack which was built using Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and Cassandra
- Utilized Docker, Go, Swarm, and Kubernetes to deliver production-ready environments
- Organized and presented at monthly lunch-and-learns, community events, and conferences to evangelize, educate, and promote technology
Senior DevOps Engineer
Built Technologies, Inc.
10.2015 - 08.2016
- Lead engineer for development and automation tools utilizing Symfony console and docker-compose
- Integrated docker infrastructure into production utilizing Elastic Beanstalk and ECS
- Integrated several debugging and observability performance tools into the application stack
- Improved continuous integration and deployment systems leading to an increase of test coverage by 70%, and deployment lead times to below 10 minutes
- Led major refactor of monolith into microservices, enabling isolating performance issues and increasing reliability to 99.99%
Senior Developer
Raven Internet Marketing Tools
01.2014 - 11.2015
- Responsible for building a highly distributed app responsible for compiling and delivering large scale PDF and web-based reports.
- Reporting app was responsible for aggregating and generating bespoke analytics derived from advertising and marketing solutions such as Google Analytics, Adwords, Twitter Ad Reporting, Facebook Ads, and several dozen other integrations
- Reporting system was responsible for reliably delivering over 100 thousand reports a month in daily, weekly, and monthly intervals
- Collaborated with and mentored a team of developers whose focus include debugging, solving problems at scale, and new product design
- Optimized existing and develop new features in a SaaS product utilizing modern development practices including test-driven development, Agile, and SCRUM
- Contributed ongoing support to the existing infrastructure by solving bug reports and working closely with colleagues to resolve issues
Web Applications Developer
iDesign Inc.
03.2013 - 01.2014
- Built and maintained several dozen complex database driven websites and applications
- Responsible for maintaining company web servers which host over 300 websites
- Administered and setup several internal application and development servers which include Gitlab and DokuWiki
- Collaborated daily with other developers, project managers, and directors to solve problems and provide solutions
- Deploying production and development environments with Vagrant and Puppet
Education
Associate of Science - Telecommunications
Nashville State Tech
Nashville05-2001
Skills
- GitOps
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Containerization (K8S)
- Platform Engineering
- Modernization
- SRE
Timeline
Staff Engineer (Oculus Studios / Supernatural)
Meta
03.2023 - 12.2024
DevOps Engineering Manager
Within / Supernatural (acquired by Meta)
09.2021 - 02.2023
Lead Developer Advocate
Traefik Labs
04.2020 - 01.2021
Senior DevOps Advocate
Instana
04.2018 - 04.2020
VP, Director of Engineering
Single Music
04.2017 - 09.2021
Lead DevOps Engineer
Franklin American Mortgage Company
08.2016 - 03.2018
Senior DevOps Engineer
Built Technologies, Inc.
10.2015 - 08.2016
Senior Developer
Raven Internet Marketing Tools
01.2014 - 11.2015
Web Applications Developer
iDesign Inc.
03.2013 - 01.2014
Associate of Science - Telecommunications
Nashville State Tech
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