Gregory M Chávez
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Gregory M Chávez

Gregory M Chávez

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

English

Background


About

About

I am a software development generalist with the ability to quickly shift my expertise from different implementations of DevOps, the aspiration, and SRE, the practice. Hot tech skills come and go, but the need for efficient workflows, service observability, code clarity, cost control, team organization, mentorship and automating myself out of a job never will. My commitment to making people and things better every day by leading and contributing to high priority projects, breaking down knowledge silos, sharing information agressively and securing a stake in the organization's success is absolute.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Sr. Engineer for DevOps, Data & Delivery and Operations EngineeringThe Atlantic

    Aug, 2019 - May, 20211 year 9 months

    Worked in cross-functional pods to create, build, maintain and run the infrastructure at the heart of The Atlantic’s Internet publishing platforms. Our main mission was to modernize the way we deploy, run, safely access, and secure our applications and data.

    • Participated in the lift, shift and tweak of data center applications to AWS and Fastly CDN

    • Composed AWS Lambda in Python to auto-assign DNS to ephemeral ALB internal IPs

    • Supported microservice deployments across several AWS services, largely with Terraform

    • Composed Terraform modules to effect blue-green deployments of our CMS app in AWS ECS

    • Desgined and executed a DB migration pattern to move The Atlantic's CMS from on-prem to AWS Aurora

    • Managed and maintained Terraform workflows across 5 AWS accounts for use by disparate dev teams

    • Refactored dev/stage/prod Terraform codebase and workflow to improve scalability, usability and testing

    • Migrated multiple monolithic Terraform configurations to tiered workspaces in Terraform Cloud

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • Miss Direction, Smoogle

    Aug, 2016 - Aug, 20161 day

    A mapping engine that misguides you

    • Won award at AIHacks 2016

    • Built by all women team of newbie programmers

    • Using modern technologies such as GoogleMaps, Chrome Extension and Javascript

Skills

Skills

  • Provisioning

    Terraform

    Ansible

  • Cloud Platforms

    AWS

    Azure

Education

Education

  • Marine and Freshwater Biology, Bachelor of Science, University of New Hampshire

    Aug, 1992 - Oct, 1995