Andrew Crowley

andrewcr330@gmail.com ▴ crowley.cloud ▴

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Summary

Technically passionate DevOps advocate and AWS Certified Cloud Engineer with 10+ years of IT experience who is committed to continuously expanding cutting edge skills to deliver simple, elegant, and valuable support and development solutions.

Work Experience

Voyant, Austin TX

May 2021 - Present

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

  • Collaborated on providing highly-available automation platforms and infrastructure for a globally used SaaS application
  • Developed and provided operational support on fault-tolerant infrastructure built in AWS EC2 Autoscaling Groups using infrastructure-as-code principles
  • Revolutionized multiple Jenkins Automation Platforms using the latest technologies(JCasC, Jenkins Pipelines) for developers to push code around the clock.

Dun & Bradstreet, Austin, TX

April 2018 - May 2021

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

  • Maintained a highly-available java web application serving 125k+ users globally hosted in AWS to support multiple engineering teams using EC2, SQS, S3, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch.
  • Improved sprint velocity and application stability developing updated Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines with
  • Improved alerting and monitoring for application stability by planning, presenting, and iterating into a better on-call schedule and support processes using New Relic APM/Infrastructure and Pager Duty.
  • Reduced maintenance costs ensuring routine clean-up of cloud resources via AWS Lambda Functions using Python3
  • Provided expert VCS practices by developing into a deep Object-Oriented Python codebase to enhance various other financial applications within D&B

Spanning Cloud Apps, Austin, TX

January 2017 - January 2018

DevOps Engineer

  • Developed Nagios custom plugins for 300+ instances using OOP Ruby to run business-critical backup and restore for global client base.
  • Worked closely with team to write all config management through Chef Server Cookbooks.
  • Heavy development in Ruby2.4 Codebase for all technologies running distributed computing applications.
  • Hosted and maintained AWS services to support multiple engineering teams using VPC, EC2, RDS, S3.

Red Queen, Philadelphia, PA

March 2015 - January 2017

Systems Administrator

  • Managed and administered MySQL instances in AWS RDS for custom built Unity Plugin to store gameplay data for api hosting.
  • Built and managed custom AWS VPC and infrastructure for website: redqueen.us.
  • Provided internal technical assistance hosting email servers and private storage in Digital Ocean.

Cloudreach, New York, NY

April 2016 - December 2016

Cloud Systems Engineer

  • Built highly scalable and diverse enterprise systems architecture in Amazon Web Services(AWS) for international Energy Company.
  • Designed and developed Chef cookbooks in multi-tier environment using different operating systems(RHEL, SUSE, Windows, etc.).
  • Designed, developed, and implemented account-wide log collection using multiple technologies (Python, Lambda, Cloudwatch).
  • Worked with intercontinental team to provide fast, efficient infrastructure migration to a worldwide gas utility company.

Axis Group, Berkeley Heights, NJ

June 2011 - March 2016

Solutions Engineer

  • Administered all Managed Service customer environments in Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDB, SES) to host SaaS-based BI applications to multiple clients across the US.
  • Diagnosed and troubleshot Windows Server 2003/2008(R2)/2012 processing problems and applied solutions written in Perl/C#/Powershell to improve environment stability and efficiency.
  • Monitored network performance and provided network performance statistical reports for both real-time and historical measurements using Nagios Groundworks UI.
  • Integrated Microsoft Team Foundation Server into 3-tier System Architecture(Dev, Stage, Prod) with Powershell.

Technical Proficiencies

Jenkins Pipelines, Python, AWS, Packer, Chef, Powershell

Education

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

September 2007 - May 2011
Bachelors of Arts, Information Technology and Informatics

Activities and Interests

  • Home Computing Enthusiast
    • Architect, build, and upgrade custom gaming desktops
    • Custom built Home Server running Centos 7
    • Managed using Ansible controlling Docker containers
    • Host a 4-bay NAS drive for Media Server
  • Muay Thai Kickboxing Coach: Ambush Muay Thai 2021-Present
  • Amateur Muay Thai Fighter: Record 2-0
  • Dungeons & Dragons