Ray Rodriguez
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Ray Rodriguez

Ray Rodriguez

Devops Engineer


Background


About

About

I am a software engineer by trade who still loves to write code and build solutions. In the second half of career I have focused more on the systems engineering, automation, delivery and site reliability parts of large system stacks and now leverage my past programming experience to deliver mature solutions to help engineering teams succeed and companies grow.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineering Lead

    Jan, 2018 - Present

    At HBO I am part of the Telemetry team within the SRE organization. In telemetry we are responsible for all of our telemetry systems including metrics, logging and support services like Hashicorp Vault. At HBO I have worked primarily on running our Vault Enterprise and Consul platforms as well as revamping our base AMI pipeline to automate the hardening and initial configuration of our base images which are used to run our non-containerized workloads.

    • Helped to design, deploy, monitor and operate our internal department wide multi-region Hashicorp Vault clusters.

    • Manage the day to day operation of our internal Hashicorp Consul cluster for both service use and as a Vault backend.

    • Lead the technical effort to revamp our base AMI build and compliance workflow to generate hardened AWS EC2 machine images pre-baked with support services like Consul, Vault, Prometheus and Filebeat.

    • Participated in Game of Thrones Season 8 load testing game days.

Skills

Skills

Education

Education

  • Computer Science (incomplete), Bachelors, New Jersey Institute of Technology

    Feb, 2008 - Dec, 2009