Daren Jacobs

Senior Staff Engineer

WORK EXPERIENCE

Qualcomm, San Diego, CA

Senior Staff Engineer 12/2020 – Present

● Implemented infrastructure as code tools, Terraform and Ansible, to optimize the deployment of OpenStack Cloud Environment and Cloud- based applications, achieving a 60% reduction in deployment time and a 40% decrease in maintenance efforts.

● Collaborated with 20+ development teams enhancing the software development lifecycle, resulting in 40% reduction in time-to-market, earning promotion to Senior Staff Engineer.

● Drove end-to-end deployment of secure, on-premises infrastructure, ensuring compliance with rigorous security protocols and regulatory standards; achieved exceptional results, slashing downtime by 25% and enhancing system reliability.

● Orchestrated the integration of Vertica, Apache NiFi, MongoDB, MySQL and ActiveMQ technologies, enabling efficient data processing, storage, and message queue; improved data availability by 20% and reduced latency by 15%.

Tellic, New York, NY

Senior DevOps Engineer 11/2018 – 12/2020

● Automated end-to-end ETL processes within GCP, leveraging BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer (Airflow) and Jenkins; reducing data processing time by 50% and saved the team an average of 20 hours per week.

● Led a collaborative project with data scientists, utilizing big data analytics to inform strategic decision-making; executed the implementation of a personalized recommendation engine, resulting in a 10% increase in online sales conversion rate.

● Spearheaded the co-creation and co-design of groundbreaking Natural Language Processing application using Graph database architecture and Apache Solr, resulting in 35% improvement in search accuracy and 30% reduction in query response time.

● Pioneered the adoption of a comprehensive automation strategy, harnessing the power of Python and machine-learning algorithms, to achieve a remarkable 50% surge in productivity and an astounding 75% reduction in manual errors.

Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, Jersey City, NJ Senior Cloud Operations Engineer 02/2018 – 11/2018

● Reviewed all AWS accounts and environments to avoid additional costs, decreasing 23% of quarterly bills.

● Enhanced system availability and scalability by 50% and saved thousands of dollars through transitioning of monolith application to microservices multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure and GCP).

● Orchestrated comprehensive migration strategy, utilizing industry-leading cloud platforms to seamlessly transition from on-premises data centers; resulted in a 30% increase in operational efficiency and substantial reduction in downtime.

● Developed CI/CD pipelines in AWS using Packer, Terraform and Ansible. CONTACT

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Hard Skills:

CI/CD Pipelines

Configuration Management

Network Administration

Cloud Computing

Automation

Version Control

Techniques:

Agile Methodologies

Virtualization

Systems Administration

Tools and Software:

Ansible

Packer

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science

Information Technology

Phoenix, AZ

10/2008 – 05/2012

OTHER

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer,

Professional

AWS Certified Security, Specialty

AWS Certified Solutions Architect,

Associate

Upsight, San Francisco, CA

Senior DevOps Engineer 10/2016 – 11/2017

● Developed a tool that enabled 50+ developers to deploy virtual machines within 50 seconds versus 10+ minutes, also resulting in substantial savings of over 20k per month in cloud computing expenses.

● Led and maintained all functions associated with MySQL database replication, backups and data migrations.

● Designed configuration management solution using SaltStack, resulting in increased efficiency of over 50%.

● Created queries and shell scripts to produce cloud services metrics and transferred the data to the cloud for C-level accessibility. Kaltura, New York, NY

Systems Engineer 10/2012 – 10/2016

● Transformed packaging and deployment of Kaltura application by leveraging Ansible automation, leading to an exceptional 200% increase in deployment speed; revolutionized customer on-premises experiences and expedited project delivery.

● Engineered and executed a flawless migration of customer media content to Kaltura's SaaS platform, leveraging PHP, Python, and Java. Achieved 100% data accuracy and halved migration time.

● Spearheaded the seamless integration and administration of multiple customer data centers across US, Asia, and Europe, resulting in recognized achievements and industry accolades.

● Acted as support liaison for Kaltura System Engineers, being the primary point of contact for on-premises customers’ support issues. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Unit Computing Manager, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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