MICHAEL ROBLES

WORK EXPERIENCE

Netflix Senior Software Engineer

April 2021–March 2022 - Remote, NJ

• Partnered with AWS to monitor and maintain EC2 instance availability for all of Netflix
• Built systems to monitor and scale clusters to appropriately anticipate and scale for failover events
• Maintained a regional failover framework to ensure service availability despite bad deployments, AWS service outages, cyberattacks, and unexpected traffic shifts
• Routinely assisted teams in managing cluster sizes, EC2 availability, and troubleshooting deployment issues
• Created dashboards contrasting instance, cluster, and auto-scaling metrics to reduce on-call alerts by 50%
• Containerized the codebase to obtain parity between environments and simplifying the developer experience

The New York Times-Wirecutter DevOps Engineer

April 2020–April 2021 - Remote, CA

• Provide subject matter expertise on IAM related technologies S3 bucket permissions across the company
• Worked with AWS Lambda, SQS, ECS, and other services to improve deployments and observability
• Present and led company-wide Docker workshops to improve employee skillsets
• Consulted on infrastructure projects with various teams throughout the company
• Led live coding sessions to help familiarize and mentor new developers to the stack
• Reduced developer local development onboarding from 1 week to 20 minutes

The New York Times-Parenting Software Engineer

Remote, NY - May 2019–April 2020

• Architected REST API’s routes using ExpressJS, incorporated unit and integration test pipeline to ensure stability and reliability
• Architected a custom CMS using NextJS, ReactJS, and Postgres to allow journalists to update site content
• Decreased developer onboarding to 1 day and created environment parity by implementing Docker
• Led a project consolidation effort by incorporating Google OAuth, application-level firewalls, and Docker based deployments, increasing transparency and efficiency by 66%
• Implemented multiple SEO optimizations which increased site traffic by 30%
• Implemented an in-house A/B testing framework to empirically test UI changes
• Ensured GDPR and PURR compliance required by Legal
• Built and presented an Augmented Reality React Native hack-a-thon project to C-level executives as a potential revenue generating product line

Johnson & Johnson Senior Backend Web Developer

June 2017–May 2019 - Raritan, NJ

• Architected Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS which increased operational flexibility, reliability and independence from PaaS contractors
• Improved overall developer experience by implementing Docker
• Mentored co-ops, interns, and co-workers by providing educational sessions on best practices, coding standards and potential security vulnerabilities
• Significantly increased company revenue by developing an internal automated app creation platform that allowed app developers to experiment, prototype, and build more complex applications quickly, while providing a simple interface for stakeholders and administrators

VIPERsurf VPN & Consulting Chief Executive Officer-Part Time

February 2018–Today -Jersey City, NJ

• Architected and developed a cloud agnosƟc on-demand VPN system using Terraform where servers are managed via a portal built in ReactJS or an API
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Drone IO which implements a mulƟbranch pipeline to: monitor code changes, run automated unit tests, linters, and deploy systems to their respective environments
• Secured both plaƞorms by incorporating HTTPS, encrypting sensitive data at rest, identifying and patching security holes, and supplying secrets at runtime using Vault
• Decreased total costs by 70% by opƟmizing AWS server configuraƟons and business logic Performed in-depth technical, operational, and security analyses of client infrastructure to recommend solutions such as SCRUM, customized educational material and other resources to increase operational efficiency, reliability, and security