Levon Becker

Experienced Development Operations Professional with expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Ruby, Python, and Amazon Web Services. Practiced GitOps using Argo solutions in EKS. Known as a leader, problem solver and knowledge expert with a passion for providing consistent solutions. Ability to quickly learn complex technologies and apply them to large-scale environments as a team lead or individual. Through exceptional coding skills, provides consistent time and cost-saving solutions to maintain high operational uptime. Strong leadership skills with an aptitude for training customers and coworkers on technologies. Exhibits dedication, reliability, flexibility, and motivation.

Amazon Web Services

• Amazon Web Services certified
• Automate all the common AWS services
• Used Terraform and CloudFormation for complete infrastructure automation
• Trained several teams on AWS usage

Coding

• Achieved a very high-level in Python and Ruby programming language
• Used Terraform to automate AWS APIs, Kubernetes, Helm and MongoDB Atlas.
• Good level knowledge in shell scripting, Groovy and HCL.
• Trained teams on GitOps methodology with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Ruby.

Code Testing

• Container vulnerability scanning with tools like Grype
• Pioneered use of Test Kitchen integration testing at Nike and Capital One.
• Enforced Integrated automated testing as part of CI/CD.
• Pylint, Ruff Format/Lint, CFNLint, Yamllint, Aqua, and CloudGuard
• Trained teams on Foodcritic, Rubocop, InSpec and Test Kitchen.

Configuration Management

• Automated Github Enterprise deployment with Chef and Terraform.
• Automated Cloudbees Jenkins using Chef and CloudFormation.
• Wrote and standardized countless shared cookbooks at Nike and Capital One.
• Trained teams on Chef fundamentals and advanced applications.

Continuous Integration and Delivery

• Became a Subject Matter Expert with Gitlab-CI at SEC
• Setup ArgoCD, Github Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI and Jenkins for several projects.
• Automated rolling blue-green deployments.
• Improved several aspects of the Go CI/CD implementation at Nike.
• Trained teams on using correct continuous integration and delivery methodologies.

Infrastructure Orchestration

• Used Terraform for complete infrastructure orchestration.
• Automated Kubernetes (EKS) Clusters with Terraform.
• Wrote Ruby orchestrator tool to manage Terraform on multiple environments.
• Wrote and shared many CloudFormation Templates for the public.
• Wrote and shared reusable Terraform modules for the public.