Ryan Donnelly
Longmont,CO
Summary
Demonstrative Infrastructure Manager with extensive understanding of disaster recovery, business continuity and virtualization. Enthusiastic professional tasked with overseeing administration of user accounts.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Infrastructure manager
Lunchbox Technologies
08.2022 - Current
- Organized and led PCI and SOC compliance initiatives
- Unified monitoring and observability stacks across multiple brands
- Mentored and trained junior engineers on their continued journey
- Collaborated with engineering and product for several major project initiatives.
Staff DevOps Engineer
Lunchbox Technologies
08.2021 - 07.2022
- Designed and implemented our AWS multi-account structure using AWS Control Tower and Account Factory
- Replaced manual deploy processes with automated ones using Terragrunt and CircleCI
- Setup best practice security settings around MONGODB Cloud, AWS, GCP, and more
- Planned and successfully rolled out Okta SSO for key services to increase security and make onboarding easier
- Replaced hand-rolled AWS infrastructure with repeatable IFAC
- Helped establish a blameless postmortem and incident response mentality stemming from the Google SRE publication
- Led several lunch and learns on topics including Observability and Monitoring, AWS Basics, Cloud Security, and Introduction to Docker/ECS.
SRE/DevOps Engineer
Peaksware
01.2014 - 07.2021
- Driving 3 SaS companies towards CI/CD while ensuring uptime and data safety
- Migrated a 15-year-old software company from a colo setup in RackSpace to AWS in 6 months
- Migrated 2 companies into new AWS accounts that were setup and controlled by IaC pipelines
- Was lead SRE as we expanded from 1 AWS account per brand to multiples
- Architected the new accounts and their interdependencies for users, deployment roles, networking, and shared assets all as IFAC
- Maintained multiple production and under-tier MSSQL servers including 2008r2, 2012, 2014, 2016, and most recently 2017
- Established mirrors, log shipping servers, and high available groups
- Replaced all manually created servers with immutable infrastructure and automated deploys
- Worked with developers and created two companies' first on-call rotations and helped establish their first SLAs
- Advocated for security as I led the initial GDPR task force and CCPA task force
- Worked directly with development teams on several projects from kick-off to production release
- Increased insights into our tech stacks using CloudWatch, ELK, New Relic, ServerDensity, Solarwinds, and more
- Created and maintained documentation
- Presented at countless lunch and learns to help disseminate knowledge and "demystify" AWS.
IT Manager
Lucky's Market
07.2013 - 01.2014
- Managed upwards of 19 direct reports including data entry, reporting (data), IT support, and new opening teams
- Implemented our first cloud-based reporting using Poweredby Analytics in Azure.
Sysadmin
Natural Grocers
08.2008 - 07.2013
- Planned and implemented over 45 stores for Natural Grocers
- Planned and implemented our first few cloud projects.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Molecular Biology
CU Boulder
Boulder, United StatesSkills
- AWS: EC2, IAM, ECS, WAF, RDS, EKS, Route53, Lambda, VPC, CloudFormation
- Terraform, CircleCi, Jenkins, TeamCity, Ansible, Elasticsearch, MSSQL, MySql, Packer
- Python, Powershell, Docker, NGINX, Cloudwatch, DataDog, NewRelic
- Project Management, Budget Management, Cross Functional Collaboration
- Infrastructure Architecture, Engineer Growth Strategies, Risk Management
- Team leadership
- Problem diagnosis
- Information Security
- Network Administration
- Network Architecture
- Disaster Recovery
Timeline
Infrastructure manager
Lunchbox Technologies
08.2022 - Current
Staff DevOps Engineer
Lunchbox Technologies
08.2021 - 07.2022
SRE/DevOps Engineer
Peaksware
01.2014 - 07.2021
IT Manager
Lucky's Market
07.2013 - 01.2014
Sysadmin
Natural Grocers
08.2008 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Science - Molecular Biology
CU Boulder
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