Alireza T.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and evolve AWS/EKS infrastructure for 35+ microservices using Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and Istio.
• Maintain platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through monitoring, troubleshooting, and resource optimization.
• Lead cloud security and compliance, covering access controls, secrets management, remediation, and secure connectivity.
• Partner with engineering, QA, data, and security teams to improve delivery workflows, resolve issues, and mentor engineers.

Achievements

• Replaced Datadog with a self-hosted observability platform using OpenTelemetry, highly available ClickHouse, HyperDX, and Grafana; standardized tracing, logs, and metrics across all services through a shared library, improving incident triage.
• Migrated CI/CD from CircleCI to GitHub Actions with reusable workflows, TypeScript actions, and self-hosted EKS runners, accelerating builds and eliminating per-minute CI platform charges.
• Led the monorepo and CI/CD migration, introducing service-specific builds, parallel execution, ephemeral NVMe storage, and shared dependency caching.
• Reduced cloud and telemetry costs through Kubernetes rightsizing, node and AZ placement, load balancer consolidation, NAT and VPC endpoint optimization, and retention and cardinality tuning.
• Achieved ISO 27001 conformance through Vanta and AWS Security Hub remediation; automated secrets auditing and rotation, and implemented organization-wide SSO, AWS WAF, and VPN access.
• Built tooling for reusable deployments, pull request governance, and dependency auto-merging, reducing manual work and standardizing engineering practices.
• Designed Fivetran, Snowflake, and dbt pipelines to unify advertising engagement and demographic metrics across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Streamlined the software development lifecycle by assisting developers with building, testing, and deploying their code.
• Conducted systems and services security auditing, set up automated static analysis, and ensured adherence to common security practices.
• Improved observability by setting up monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the reliability and performance of applications and services.
• Documented technical procedures, configurations, and the architecture of deployed solutions.

Achievements

• Implemented IaC and automated the provisioning of cloud resources across different environments.
• Enhanced the software development process by establishing a continuous integration pipeline with various automated tests.
• Increased reliability of software delivery by setting up extensive post-deployment tests and automated rollbacks for unexpected issues.

Responsibilities

• Led the Server team and trained new team members.
• Set up and maintained Linux/cPanel servers.
• Set up and managed AWS services.
• Provided technical support.
• Maintained performance, security, and stability of servers and services.

Achievements

• Streamlined processes by automating manual tasks.
• Ensured efficient and effective provisioning of cloud resources, resulting in significant cost savings.
• Collaborated closely with the development team to enhance the scalability and performance of the company’s main software suite.