DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer – Enterprise Data & Analytics at Nike

• Working on enterprise-grade data and analytics solutions in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP), with secure on-premises infrastructure in the U.S.

• Responsible for managing sensitive data in compliance with U.S. regulations, including data classification and secure storage of credentials, certificates, and keys.

• Collaborating with architects to design and implement highly scalable and secure solutions.

• Implementing and maintaining advanced security controls beyond native cloud services, including:

• OKTA authorization tokens

• Active Directory (AD) groups

• GID-based user access management

• Active involvement in:

• Data pipelines using PySpark, Splunk, and Kafka

• CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI

• Infrastructure management with Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Ansible

• Managing Snowflake data warehouses handling petabytes of data

• Primary scripting in Python, with PowerShell used for on-premises Ansible-managed servers.

• All deliverables are reviewed by CIS (Nike’s internal security team) to ensure full compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.

• Earned AWS certification while at Nike (2023).

• Participate in frequent cross-functional meetings with stakeholders, product owners, engineering managers, and architects, demonstrating strong communication and collaboration skills.

Experience at GreenSky – AI Team

• Contributed to the development of a Chatbot application, built from scratch upon joining the team.

• Focused heavily on AWS infrastructure, working with services such as:

• Fargate, ECS, EKS, Pinpoint, Route 53, VPC, NAT Gateways, RDS, CIDR, ALB, ACM, S3, Secrets Manager, and others.

• Led automation efforts for legacy CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment reliability and speed.

• Designed and implemented a Blue/Green deployment model to support seamless releases.

• Worked extensively with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) for provisioning and managing infrastructure.

• Managed and maintained Kubernetes environments as part of daily responsibilities.

Experience at ProductSavvy

• Gained first hands-on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes:

• Transitioned from CloudFormation to Terraform for infrastructure management.

• Conducted proof of concept (POC) work and explored early versions of Kubernetes (circa 2017).

• Joined as the sole Senior DevOps Engineer, responsible for building the infrastructure from the ground up.

• Played a key role in establishing the company’s DevOps practices within a startup environment.

• Focused on automation, infrastructure scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Followed AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and best practices to ensure secure and reliable infrastructure.

First DevOps Engineer Role – Brooklyn, NY

• First professional role in DevOps Engineering after university.

• Gained hands-on experience in real-world production environments.

• Began learning and working with cloud technologies.

• Managed on-premises Linux servers, contributing to system administration tasks.

• Worked with Jenkins to support and configure CI/CD pipelines.

• Spent one year in the USA, starting a career in a dynamic and practical setting.