R. Scott Cudney
Lawrenceville,GA
Summary
Adept at going beyond that of an engineer or developer to that of a leader, advocate, and architect. Supportive and enthusiastic team player dedicated to empowering others, leading teams, and developing high quality solutions to complex problems. With 27 years of experience developing scalable solutions and running high performing teams in large scale enterprise environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. SRE Engineer/Consultant
Optimal
07.2024 - 08.2024
- Assess current production environment, monitoring, and SRE practices
- Propose architectural and procedural changes to improve the performance and uptime of the client’s ecom application
- Developed and implemented engineering strategies to improve production efficiency.
- Identified customer needs and developed solutions based on user feedback.
Contractor, Lead DevOps Engineer
Verituity
McClean, USA
04.2024 - 06.2024
- Modernize DevOps operations and development pipelines
- Re-architect Kubernetes infrastructure
- Modernize CI/CD pipelines
- Work closely with developers to architect efficient, manageable software
- Mentor junior DevOps engineers, bring them up to modern standards
- Manage cloud costs
- Identified potential issues or risks that could impact the successful completion of projects.
Principal Engineer/Architect
Genuine Parts Company
Atlanta, USA
06.2022 - 02.2024
- Provide strong technical leadership, with an emphasis on mentoring and knowledge sharing, to more than 50 SREs who support and serve the entire IT organization.
- Establish and curate SRE culture and principles.
- Closely collaborate with Platform Automation, DevOps, and Cloud Platform teams to develop a robust automation and tools suite.
- Build and maintain close relationships with Development, Security, Cloud, and Network teams at all levels.
- Collaborate with Security to ensure the smooth deployment of new policies and tools.
- Assist in the development and rollout of the DevSecOps program.
- Develop and evangelize architectural and operational standards for cloud-based deployments, including Kubernetes and Istio.
- Participate in the general standards board, Paved Path.
- Prioritize, plan, scope, and manage SRE-related projects.
- Approve project proposals, change requests, and maintain architecture and process documentation.
- Ensure adequate redundancy and disaster recovery standards are followed and implemented properly.
- Build and maintain a gold container image library.
- Develop and maintain app server archetypes in Python and Golang for use by dev teams.
- Drive the adoption of Go for microservices, automation, and tooling.
- Develop tooling for SRE and developers.
- Automated system documentation using Golang and Confluence.
- Developed and implemented engineering processes to improve operational efficiency.
- Created technical documentation, including user manuals, system diagrams, and installation guides.
- Conducted research and development on new technologies related to product design.
- Provided guidance and mentorship to junior engineers in the team.
- Managed projects from concept through completion, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Led cross-functional teams in design reviews, risk assessments, and problem solving activities.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure successful product launches and deployments.
- Implemented quality assurance processes to ensure product reliability and performance.
- Performed troubleshooting on complex systems using debugging tools and techniques.
- Evaluated existing systems for performance optimization opportunities.
- Identified areas for improvement in engineering processes and procedures.
- Researched industry trends and best practices in order to stay up-to-date with technology advancements.
- Reviewed code changes submitted by other engineers for accuracy and completeness.
- Coordinated efforts between multiple departments within the organization.
- Provided technical support to internal customers as needed.
- Trained personnel on newly developed engineering processes or procedures.
- Assisted in recruiting efforts for the Engineering Department.
- Prioritized and delegated daily tasks for engineering project team members.
- Developed, coordinated, and monitored production tasks.
- Evaluated software development project plans and recommended adjustments.
- Authored documentation for standard operating procedures (SOPs), designing quick, effective manuals for implementation.
- Performed testing to determine functionality or optimization.
- Finished projects on time and within budget.
- Generated technical reports for customers.
- Prepared estimates and budgets.
Senior Engineer/Architect
Genuine Parts Company
Atlanta, USA
10.2020 - 06.2022
- Supported six high-performing development teams.
- Mentored developers on the teams I supported, helping them learn to take full responsibility for their applications and infrastructure in production.
- Each team was primary on-call for their product, and I was secondary on-call.
- Advocated for developers' needs.
- Developed architectural standards for Kubernetes clusters, deployments, and monitoring.
- Built out AWS environments for 6 teams.
- Managed 7 Kubernetes clusters (3 hand-built in Azure, 2 AKS, 2 EKS) with Istio.
- Managed environments in Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises.
- Developed a ZSH-based shell framework to ease developer onboarding and improve the overall developer experience.
- Developed a regulatory compliance framework with internal auditors and auditors from EY, ensuring that teams can move quickly, deploy often, and maintain regulatory compliance.
- Developed new methods of automation for existing processes.
- Improved efficiency by developing innovative technologies and systems.
- Analyzed complex problems and formulated creative solutions.
- Wrote technical reports to document system design specifications.
- Conducted user training sessions on new software applications.
- Implemented best practices in engineering standards and procedures.
- Monitored performance metrics to identify areas of improvement.
- Debugged code and resolved application errors in a timely manner.
- Researched cutting-edge technology trends.
DevOps Manager/Led
Exostar, LLC
Herndon, USA
06.2017 - 10.2020
- Managed and led a small team of DevOps engineers.
- Managed on-prem Atlassian tools, including Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, and Crowd.
- Developed salt-based orchestration tooling that automated nearly all common tasks that must be performed on VMs, eliminating the need for local accounts for developers and root access for admins.
- Automated the full life cycle of a Kubernetes cluster, including installation, management, and tear-down.
- Developed a polyglot persistent datastore to house syslog, monitoring, tracing, and configuration data.
- Developed Jira-based automation tools that significantly decreased the team's ticket-related work.
- Architected Kubernetes-based infrastructure using Istio and F5 load balancers for traffic control.
- Managed all artifact repositories, secrets management, and configuration stores.
- Managed more than 500 VMs.
- Helped members of my team overcome a fear of failure and a tendency toward perfectionism, replacing those behaviors with a healthy curiosity and a desire to fail fast.
- Created monthly reports for senior management summarizing operational performance metrics.
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.
- Conducted regular meetings with staff to discuss progress and identify areas of improvement.
- Established processes to ensure efficient workflow throughout the organization.
- Monitored budgets and expenditures to ensure cost-effectiveness while maintaining quality standards.
- Initiated new projects that resulted in increased productivity across all departments.
- Assessed team member's skillsets and assigned tasks accordingly for optimal efficiency.
- Implemented new technologies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer service.
Principal Systems Engineer
Comcast
Reston, USA
04.2013 - 04.2017
- Managed vendor provided IPDR (Bandwidth accounting) and Fairshare (Congestion Management) platforms
- Mentored younger team members
- Architected and managed the development of a new IPDR data collection platform
- Helped my team absorb our engineering team, creating a new DevOps team
- Revived two ailing vendor relationships
- Moved the entire team from a Perl-based operation to a mostly Python-based operation, which lowered the barrier to entry for junior team members
- Developed a highly scalable, microservices-based application management system that managed the data collection for more than 45,000,000 devices
- Developed a polyglot persistent datastore using Riak TS, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
- Developed core tools for the IPDR platforms
- Developed monitoring tools to detect and forecast performance problems within our systems as well as the networks we monitored
- Participated in the development of Comcast’s next-generation virtual head-end architecture
- Performed regular maintenance activities on operating systems, applications, and hardware devices.
- Developed and implemented a detailed plan to upgrade existing systems infrastructure.
Education
High School Diploma -
Northern Yock County High School
Dillsburg05-1996
Skills
- Product Development
- Process Development
- Software Development
- Strategic Planning
- Policy Implementation
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Budget Control
- Staff Management
- Team Leadership
- Project Management
Frameworks
Django, Flask, Starlette, Fast API, Falcon, Click, Gin, Fiber, Gorilla, Cobra
Technology
- Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, OpenSuSE
- Database: Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, RIAK, InfluxDB, Redis, Memcached,
- Virtualization: KVM, OpenStack, VMWare, Docker, LXD
- Orchestration: SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE, artisanal Kubernetes
- Service Mesh: Istio, Anthos
- Message Queue: RabbitMQ, Kafka, MQTT
- Monitoring: OpenNMS, Prometheus, CheckMK, Nagios, Zabbix, Netcool, OpenView, New Relic, Data Dog, Jaeger, Zipkin, Open Tracing, New Relic
- Syslog: Syslog-NG, Rsyslog, Graylog, Logstash, Fluentd, Splunk, Open Telemetry, GCP Cloud Logging, Azure Log Analytics, Data Dog
- Load Balancing: HAProxy, Envoy, PFSense, F5, Istio,
- Visualization: Grafana, Chronograph, New Relic, Data Dog
- Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, Linode
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab, GitHub Actions
- Source Control: CVS, Clear Case, SVN, GIT, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
- Artifact Storage: Artifactory, Harbor, Docker, Azure Artifacts, AWS Artifact Repo, GCP Artifact Registry
- CDN: Akamai, Cloudflare, Cloudfront
- Security Tools: Hashicorp Vault, Sonar, Snyk, Wiz, Keycloak, GCP IAM, GCP Identity Platform, AWS IAM, AWS Cognito
Languages
Golang, Python, Perl, Shell, Bash, ZSH
Timeline
Sr. SRE Engineer/Consultant
Optimal
07.2024 - 08.2024
Contractor, Lead DevOps Engineer
Verituity
04.2024 - 06.2024
Principal Engineer/Architect
Genuine Parts Company
06.2022 - 02.2024
Senior Engineer/Architect
Genuine Parts Company
10.2020 - 06.2022
DevOps Manager/Led
Exostar, LLC
06.2017 - 10.2020
Principal Systems Engineer
Comcast
04.2013 - 04.2017
High School Diploma -
Northern Yock County High School
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