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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

years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Engineer (Oculus Studios / Supernatural)

DevOps Engineering Manager

Within / Supernatural (acquired by Meta)

United States (remote)

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

United States (remote)

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

Global Team (remote)

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

Global Team (remote)

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

Franklin, TN

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.

Nashville, TN

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

Greater Nashville Area, TN

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.