Paul Corujo
Sr. Director Of Infrastructure
Merrick,NY
Summary
As a seasoned Senior Director of Infrastructure with a robust history at CB Insights and TMP Worldwide, my career has been defined by spearheading strategic improvements and fostering innovation within technology teams. My leadership has catalyzed a 23% improvement in engineering cycle times and led domain-based team reorganizations for enhanced efficiency. My collaborative efforts with product management have streamlined user experience, and my stewardship over comprehensive disaster recovery and security policies underscores my commitment to robust, secure infrastructure management. Expert in cloud-based systems, especially within AWS, I've excelled in driving microservices architectures and CI/CD best practices. My leadership extends beyond technical prowess to encompass financial stewardship of engineering budgets, negotiation of pivotal vendor contracts, and the promotion of a positive organizational culture. I bring a forward-thinking approach to team building and product development, aligning technical roadmaps with business objectives for transformative outcomes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Director of Infrastructure (Developer Enablement/Fundamentals)
CB Insights
9 2022 - Current
- Achieved a 23% improvement in cycle time across engineering through measurement and optimization of flow metrics (coding time, time to PR review, PR review time, deploy time)
- Lead efforts to reorganize teams around domains and missions leading to efficiency gains in planning and delivery
- Closely collaborated with product management to optimize various user management flows resulting in
- Designed and oversaw implementation of disaster recovery solution, including drafting DR plan document
- Drafted and implemented vulnerability scanning policy, security incident response policy, and various other security protocols
- Oversaw Kubernetes rollout and side by side availability with existing Nomad/Consul infrastructure
- Temporarily took over MarketingOps team to streamline processes and cleanup systems (Hubspot, Segment)
- Automated marketing survey outreach via AWS Lambda and Python
- Led technical due diligence activities during M&A activities
- Field all customer security questionnaire’s, audits, etc
- Successfully negotiation all vendor contracts including 3-year EDP with AWS
- Manage Engineering budget.
Director of Infrastructure (Developer Enablement)
CB Insights
08.2019 - 09.2022
- Oversee Devops, Platform Engineering, Frontend Platform Engineering, Common SaaS, and IT Ops teams
- Actively coach/mentor managers on providing meaningful feedback/building culture of positivity
- Establish team vision and identities, own and develop team roadmaps
- Champion of operational (delivery) and developer experience best practices
- Active contributor to system architecture and design strategies
- Automated operational tasks in Python resulting in elimination of numerous manual tasks
- Active participant in various employee satisfaction/retention programs including incorporation of feedback from bi-annual satisfaction survey
- Fostered strong positive relationships with departmental leaders
- Developed, documented, and rolled out incident management program
- Responsible for running various staff meetings with broader management team members
- Conduct weekly one on ones and bi-annual performance reviews
- Manage Engineering budget, along with all software vendor relationships.
Director of Devops/Data Science
TMP Worldwide
02.2017 - 09.2019
- Manage Devops and Data Science teams (consisting of 17 individuals including offshore resources)
- Manage multiple project initiatives across multiple teams
- Conduct yearly performance reviews
- Introduced Infrastructure as Code concept to team (Terraform)
- Aggregate and visualize logs across all services using ELK stack
- Architected hybrid cloud extending Colo into AWS over Amazon Direct Connect
- Deployment automation implemented using Jenkins, Hashicorp stack (Terraform, Packer), and Ansible
- Designed infrastructure to support Microservices built on Docker containers
- Orchestration/Service Discovery implemented using Hashicorp stack (Nomad, Consul)
- Championed Devops culture, including alignment of Devops resources across Agile teams
- Manage IT budget.
Director of Product Architecture
TMP Worldwide
05.2015 - 03.2017
- Managed both software architecture and Devops teams (consisting of 20 individuals), ensuring upper management vision and goals are made a priority
- Successfully managed multiple software initiatives across multiple teams
- Conducted yearly performance reviews
- Established CI/CD best practices and supporting technologies
- Worked closely with Project and Product Managers to gather requirements, develop project plans, and estimate tasks
- Assisted in collaborating with Product group to determine roadmap objectives
- Enforced agile best practices among functional teams
- Built utilities to support infrastructure and automation efforts in C# and Powershell
- Active member of TMP Labs team, giving quarterly presentations to upper management on assigned topics
- Led team building custom metrics product which integrates Tableau into custom UI.
Lead Architect
TMP Worldwide
11.2012 - 05.2015
- Designed data model to support rewrite of 2.0 product suite
- Managed team of 3 architect level .Net developers, 2 DBA’s, Configuration Manager, Business Intelligence Architect, and 3 Devops engineers
- Conducted yearly performance reviews
- Migrated search platform from Solr to Elasticsearch 1.7 including weighting and stemming rules
- Architected distributed system to support multiple software offerings following Master Data Pattern
- Reworked branching strategy to support continuous integration and release automation efforts across multiple teams
- Documented, diagrammed, and trained team of 40 onshore and offshore developers on newly created release automation process
- Worked with Product Managers to help design, document, and wireframe admin tool, CMS, and CRM system
- Work with UI/UX team to ensure an exceptional user experience of 2.0 products
- Prototyped RabbitMQ using Consumer Producer pattern
- Setup Redis and prototyped caching using basic key value pairs to store Web API Controller responses in C#
- Reviewed user stories in Jira prior to being assigned and assisted with estimations
- Provided leadership to development teams on solution design, patterns, and best practices.
Senior Database Administrator
TMP Worldwide
11.2010 - 11.2012
- Migrated product databases from standalone servers to 4 node cluster
- Automated maintenance jobs including but not limited to backups, re-indexing, and integrity check jobs
- Identified poorly performing stored procedures and optimized both indices and queries
- Performed regular code reviews of developer’s code for weekly releases
- Actively managed all aspects of Apache Solr cluster
- Wrote custom C# .Net indexing utility using Solr.net library.
Database Administrator
WorldNow
01.2008 - 11.2010
- Responsible for day to day operation and maintenance of 4 clustered SQL 2005 production databases
- Responsible for day to day operation and maintenance of 3 dev, sys, and ua environments
- Successfully designed and configured distributed replication architecture
- Optimized all inefficient code by both optimizing indices and reworking SQL queries
- Designed and implemented reporting solution via SQL Server Reporting Services.
Database Administrator
Channels
01.2010 - 05.2010
- Designed Data warehouse schema
- Designed and implemented ETL of Leads, Disposition, and Sales files via SQL Server Integration Services into warehouse
- Worked closely with Business Analysts to develop and automate in depth reports used by C level executives
- Responsible for basic Infrastructure tasks such as configuring IIS and SFTP.
Help Desk Analyst/Database Administrator
TransitCenter
03.2006 - 12.2007
- Successfully configured Microsoft Clustering Service for SQL 2005 Database
- Proven track record of delivering mission critical projects on-time, on budget and to specifications
- Designed DTS packages to process excel, access, and flat files
- Installed and configured the following software: SQL2000, SQL2005, SharePoint 2.0 Portal Server,Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions, TrendMicro Server Protect.
Education
BS Business, Financial Services Option -
Penn State University
World Campus 05.2017 - Current
Computer Science -
New York Institute of Technology
New York 01.2005 - 05.2007
Computer Science -
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 09.1999 - 05.1999
Skills
AWS, Python, Team Management, GCP,
Timeline
Director of Infrastructure (Developer Enablement)
CB Insights
08.2019 - 09.2022
BS Business, Financial Services Option -
Penn State University
05.2017 - Current
Director of Devops/Data Science
TMP Worldwide
02.2017 - 09.2019
Director of Product Architecture
TMP Worldwide
05.2015 - 03.2017
Lead Architect
TMP Worldwide
11.2012 - 05.2015
Senior Database Administrator
TMP Worldwide
11.2010 - 11.2012
Database Administrator
Channels
01.2010 - 05.2010
Database Administrator
WorldNow
01.2008 - 11.2010
Help Desk Analyst/Database Administrator
TransitCenter
03.2006 - 12.2007
Computer Science -
New York Institute of Technology
01.2005 - 05.2007
Computer Science -
Hofstra University
09.1999 - 05.1999
Senior Director of Infrastructure (Developer Enablement/Fundamentals)
CB Insights
9 2022 - Current
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