Noah Rowland

Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, Snowflake, Ruby-on-Rails, Kotlin, Javascript, Python, Kafka, Redis, Harness CI/CD, Datadog, Wiz

• Oversaw all platform engineering teams across SRE, MLOps, CloudSec, Developer Experience, Data Engineering, and Access and Identity management domains, covering 25 engineers
• Maintained 5 IC direct reports and 4 Engineering Managers
• Centralized platform accountability and execution around stakeholder enablement, improving product time-to-value and feature completion rates
• Managed vendor relationships and renewal conversations, serving as coordinator between legal, finance, risk & compliance, and external account management teams. Was able to cut 30% of vendor related spend by consolidating contracts and negotiating price decreases
• Implemented AWS FinOps best practices, reducing cloud spend by over 20%
• Fostered team growth and collaboration resulting in 5 of 5 successful promotions, while keeping attrition rates in single digits during org-wise RTO initiatives and navigated team morale amid acquisition uncertainty
• Set strategy and direction for comprehensive observability coverage across a distributed service ecosystem
• Defined and scoped quarterly OKRs with stakeholders, with a 90% Platform completion rate
• Executed an AWS account reorg via ControlTower to establish environment and domain boundaries across services and departments
• Designed and built out a uniform developer experience via docker-compose and template repositories, supporting 4 first-class languages (ruby, kotlin, python, javascript)
• Established a framework of SDLC controls that met or exceeded firm standards, improving DORA metrics and establishing a consistent < 4 hr release cycle to production
• Championed security best practices in Terraform modules, WAF configurations, container runtime security via Wiz policies, data security via OAP policies, and authentication via Istio / JWT claims

• Grew a personal sphere of influence from directly managing a single squad of 3 SRE engineers, to establishing a business case & successfully hiring for 2 new teams (MLOps and Developer Experience) covering 12 direct reports
• Led service architecture modernization discussions, adopting Kafka as a message broker and breaking our Ruby-on-Rails monolith into smaller, Kotlin-based distributed services
• Centralized Datadog configuration strategy, consolidating around APM dynamic tracing and logging standardization
• Defined a monitoring and alert framework via infrastructure as code, using the 4 golden signals as observability pillars
• Simplified distributed service authorization and authentication via Kubernetes / Istio / SpiceDB configuration
• Expanded SRE domain of influence to the Data Science department and establishing a framework of enablement centered on MLOps
• Advised the Data Science on infrastructure best practices, adding net new services such as AWS Bedrock, Opensearch, ECS Fargate and established a standard CI/CD pipeline and SDLC framework for developing AI/ML models
• Spearheaded integration efforts and consolidation of tooling as the Aumni business was absorbed into the JPMorgan technology department
• Re-focused engineering management objectives on hiring and retention to ensure customer needs were met, while driving platform objectives to support smooth transitions where retention was unsuccessful or team re-orgs were necessary
• Identified and scoped squad OKRs, interfacing with stakeholders to ensure appropriate timelines and priorities were represented to leadership
• Served as the primary infrastructure and tooling liaison with product and infosec teams
• Led vendor onboarding and compliance management as we transitioned to JPMorgan vendor platforms
• Maintained a 5 times a day, 5 days a week CI/CD pipeline, effectively automating a merge train to production for 7 product teams
• Advised on data architecture optimization, driven by Snowflake, Airflow, and Postgres Aurora
• Held regular platform check-ins and garnered feedback from product engineers
• Partnered with InfoSec on tabletops, investigations & audit activity, provided appropriate evidence and policy documents for GRC

Site Reliability Engineer on the Dispatch team, a Web3 powered e-commerce and adtech product incubated by the stock exchange, IEX. Typescript / Azure / MongoDB (Graphql) stack.

• Planned and executed implementation of an Azure / AWS hybrid deployment. Regularly coordinated with Azure / AWS / MongoDB account vendor teams.
• Led SOC2 policy writing and compliance activities, coordinating closely with the CISO and InfoSec team. Defined and implemented GDPR compliance features.
• Created Azure / AWS / MongoDB disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Containerized the application stack and deployed to Kubernetes

Cloud architect and team lead for Edify service, a data warehouse application currently ingesting and processing over 15TB of data/day from hundreds of University systems.

• architected a multi-tenant Django/DRF API to power a serverless data pipeline
• leveraged S3, AWS Step Functions / AWS Lambda, Docker + ECS Fargate for scale
• created DR procedures and enforced SOC2 compliance with 3 years of clean audits
• managed infrastructure as code through Cloudformation templates including hundreds of databases, servers and associated resources
• created CI/CD pipelines and Ansible scripts that enabled deployments spanning multiple AWS accounts with dozens of environments and hundreds of tenants
• helped hire and develop team of 15 software engineers w/ 3-5 direct reports, onboarding them to AWS best practices, providing career/growth opportunities.

Cloud architect and lead engineer for Platform Analytics product, an internal analytics engine offering ML/AI to optimize university recruitment pipelines, integrated with external vendor APIs for data visualization.

• Pioneered machine learning pipelines and integration via Amazon Sagemaker and AWS Lambda. Worked directly w. Sagemaker team at AWS to drive feature development.
• Implemented a traditional Django web app that included an analytics engine powered by RDS/Redshift, job queueing via AWS ElastiCache and execution via ECS/Fargate
• Created deployment and source control mechanisms using Gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Cloudformation

DBA and DevOps engineer for our internal ETL app team. Hadoop, Java/Spring, ApacheSpark stack. Completed the data layer migration from bare metal to AWS, 6 months ahead of schedule.

Integrated with various systems including various databases, REST/SOAP APIs, SSO systems (ldap/saml/cas). Managed twice as many product integrations as any other integration engineer on the team.

Associate Director - The Advisory Board Company - Managed team of 5 analysts supporting flagship technology product, overseeing a $7 million book of business.
Senior Business Analyst - The Advisory Board Company - Implementation Project Manager in healthcare technology industry. Supported ICD10 transitions for major hospitals across the US.

Associate - Blue Canyon Partners - Management Consultant for a boutique firm specializing in the manufacturing industry.