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Hello,
my name is Brian and this is my resume/cv

About Me

Human. Minimalist. Tinkerer. Deploy-er of things.

Brian Lopez

+1-818-298-0568

email@brianlopez.us

www.brianlopez.us

Experiences

Grindr
Dec 2020 - Present
Site Reliability Engineer
  • Site Reliability Engineer focused on Data Engineering infrastructure and related technologies.
  • Worked closely with the Data Engineering Team to migrate from the Cloudera data platform to Snowflake, Databricks, and the AWS data platform.
  • Collaborated with project, product and engineering teams on identifying opportunities for improvements based on software and infrastructure observability metrics gathered.
  • Ensure the architecture of software systems and cloud infrastructure are optimized for cost and performance.
  • Articulated the health of our systems into tangible metrics using industry standard tools and methodologies.
  • Created deployment pipelines using tools such as Docker, GitHub, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeDeploy, Helm charts, Argo.cd and Kubernetes along with AWS Load Balancers and Cloudflare.
    • AXS
    Sep 2019 - December 2020
    Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
  • Worked closely with incident management peers on conducting blameless post-mordems with the goal of reducing the number of major incidents.
  • Collaborated with project, product and engineering teams on identifying opportunities for improvements based on software and infrastructure observability metrics gathered.
  • Provided mentorship and semination of knowledge to team members and steak-holders throughout the organization
  • Ensure the architecture of software systems and cloud infrastructure are optimized for cost and performance.
  • Articulated the health of our systems into tangible metrics using industry standard tools and methodologies.
    • AXS
    Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
    Lead Site Reliability Engineer
  • Collaborated with colleagues throughout the enterprise to ensure the efficient flow of human communication.
  • Evangelize and facilitate a culture of data driven decision making measuring reliability across computer systems, people and the organization.
  • Leverage industry best practices and design patterns to allow for gradual consistent changes to be propagated throughout the environment.
    • AXS
    Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
    Lead Systems Engineer
  • Supported production environment through devops practices and tooling.
  • Mentored colleagues on technical aspects of the core ticketing platform from an operations perspective.
  • Evangelize industry best practices and patterns to increase systems uptime and reliability.
    • AXS
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
    Senior Systems Engineer
  • Managed and supported the production environment consisting of DataCenter technologies and Amazon Web Services.
  • Responsible for production support including oncall, devops practices and tooling surrounding AWS EC2, Elasticbeanstalk, RDS, Cloudfront, Elasticache, etc.
    • Nestlé
    2014 - 2016
    Client Management Design & Build Architect
  • Worked on the Nestle Design & Build team in Bussigny, Switzerland based in Glendale, CA
  • Responsible for designing global workstation imaging infrastructure utilizing technologies such as SCCM 2012 R2, MDT 2013 and 1e Nomad.
  • Automated SCCM builds and configuration using the SCCM SDK / .NET Framework and PowerShell
  • Design and architecture of the OS client deployment and migration solution using SCCM, MDT, PXE and USMT.
  • Responsible for creating technical documentation relating to the design, architecture, configuration and operations for all global Nestle IT Operational teams.
  • Collaborated with global project managers and vendor TAM’s on ensuring a smooth rollout with vendor support.
  • Provided training and virtual workshops for all project stakeholders throughout Nestle organizations and child operating companies.
  • Liaised with IT operational teams, vendors and customers during high-priority issues and outages.
  • Served as sole developer of customized tooling s in house legacy systems using C#, VB.NET, MS SQL Server, Active Directory and IIS.
  • Sole developer and maintainer for client management tools for service desk and escalation engineers.
    • Nestlé
    2011-2014
    Client Management Engineer
  • Worked on the global Nestle Client Management Team in St. Louis, MO based in Glendale, CA.
  • Responsible for L3 support escalations, software deployments relating to IT projects, and patching 200,000 client systems and ensuring security compliance and configuration parity.
  • Served as Subject Matter Expert SME for global IT projects and incident/outage escalations relating to Client Management.
  • Ensured all team technical documentation was up to date for our L2 and L1 service desk teammates.
  • Ran Daily and Weekly Operational Review meetings to ensure team working staying on task.
  • Ensured all infrastructure changes are entered into the change management system and communicated to end users and stakeholders for new and upcoming deployments.
  • Served as onsite SPOC for Client Management Team for onsite representation and escalations.
    • Pomeroy IT Solutions
    2007-2011
    Desktop Engineer (contractor for Nestlé USA)
  • Assisted global teams in new implementation of SCCM infrastructure including testing, analysis, and troubleshooting.
  • Interfaced with Globe IS/IT for testing updates to standard networked office workstation (S.N.O.W.) infrastructure for Nestle USA.
  • Served as technical SME on business integration projects from new business acquisitions (Gerber, Kraft Pizza, Dryers, etc.)
  • Served as technical SPOC for new application implementations, deployments, testing, and level 3 escalations for technical problems.
  • Served as technical SME for infrastructure improvement projects with global impact on behalf of Nestle USA.
  • Interfaced with business units and technology vendors for new business solutions implementations.

    • Education

    • 1997

      Littlerock High School

      Graduated Littlerock High School in Littlerock, CA, USA.

    • 2001

      California State University, Northridge

      Attended CSUN majoring in Computer Engineering.

    • 2007

      College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA, USA

      Complete both courses required for Cisco Certified Network Associate certification.

    • 2014

      Microsoft Certification Training, Quickstart.com

      Completed the following courses: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services; Developing ASP.NET MVC4 Web Applications; Windows PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking; Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases; Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012.

    • 2015

      Amazon Web Services Training, LinuxAcademy.com

      Began coursework for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate level. Currently about half completed.

    • 2016

      Chef Essentials Training Course, OpsCode

      Completed day long Chef Introduction course at SoCal Linux Expo. Created sample cookbooks and used existing cookbook to deploy a web tier application.

    Contact

    +18182980568
    spam@brianlopez.us
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    Dev Skills

    C#
    PowerShell
    Bash
    Ruby
    T-SQL
    HTML
    Python
    CSS
    Javascript
    PHP
    Git
    Golang
    Beginner
    Proficient
    Expert
    Master

    Infrastructure Skills

    terraform
    packer
    Chef
    GitHub Actions
    Puppet
    VMWare
    Docker
    Vagrant
    Jenkins
    Gitlab
    Amazon Web Services
    Consul
    k8s
    Windows Server
    Linux
    Jira
    Spinnaker
    Bamboo
    Kafka
    Helm Charts
    ArgoCD
    Astronomer / Airflow
    Databricks
    Snowflake
    PostgreSQL
    MySQL
    Beginner
    Proficient
    Expert
    Master

    Languages

    English
    Spanish
    French

    Hobbies

    Urban Gardening
    Activism
    Programming
    DJ-ing
    Spin Classes