David Lee

Lafayette, CO | 303-596-9846 | |

DevOps Engineer

An emerging Engineer with a robust DevOps foundation, I embody the quintessential qualities of the IT profession: a lifelong learner with an unwavering commitment to problem-solving and personal growth. While this resume details my technical proficiencies, I place equal importance on soft skills, which are crucial to my craft. My high emotional intelligence and acute self-awareness, combined with a solid technical aptitude, render me a compelling communicator and a valuable team member. Based in Denver, I bring to the table operational experience with a globally distributed team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps: CI/CD multi-stage pipelines- Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, and GitLab; Git version control.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform scripts & Ansible Playbooks for AWS infrastructure provisioning.

Cloud Computing: AWS services (VPC, EC2, CloudWatch, IAM SES, EKS, EventBridge, etc.), Lambda serverless AWS administration, Digital Ocean.

Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes, container orchestration and deployment.

Scripting: Network automation with Python and Paramiko, Netmiko; YAML scripts for build and release automation; Bash scripting.

Monitoring & Networking: Wireshark network monitoring; Prometheus and Grafana for pipeline health.

Systems: Linux SysAdmin skills; troubleshooting and SSH key management.

Programming: Python 2-tier OOP, ETL Pipelines, Data mining/Knowledge discovery-Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NumPy.

Database Management: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle APEX, NoSQL and document-oriented databases, JSON Path.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Devops Engineer | YouROK Corp. Dec 2022- Current

Orchestrated a seamless migration of production resources from AWS to Digital Ocean, involving secure data transfer and infrastructure setup, cutting in half the organizations resource bill.

Streamlined the deployment process by configuring GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Docker runners, leading to roughly a 40% increase in build and release efficiency.

Authored and maintained a suite of Kubernetes object YAML files, improving deployment times and reducing service downtime in containerized environments. Creating resource object templates drastically reduced build and release errors.

AWS infrastructure resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible Playbooks, integrated within Jenkins pipelines, achieving 99.99% uptime and reducing operational costs.

Teamwork & Leadership

Led the Association of IT Professionals (AITP) student org as president.

Contributing member of Boulder Linux Users Group (BLUG).

EDUCATION

Computer Information Systems, B.S. | Metropolitan State University, Denver 3.87 GPA

Modern Software Engineering with DevOps | NuCamp 2021-22

CERTIFICATIONS- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, CompTIA A+