Evan Cosgrave Hill
Senior DevOps Engineer
Florida, US citizen, 33701
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Professional summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive expertise spanning over a decade, specialising in DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Kubernetes. Evan excels in designing and implementing robust solutions, leveraging skills in AWS, CI/CD, and Terraform to meet complex customer needs. Known for a hands-on, data-driven approach, he integrates technical precision with innovative problem-solving, underpinned by an AWS Certified Solutions Architect credential and a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering. Employment history
ClimatePro Senior DevOps Engineer United States Oct 2020 - Present
• Developed a reusable pattern for deploying internal developer portals as part of project engagements, with a hardened base image and reusable configuration.
• Deployed and configured Kubernetes environments with developer tooling such as Gitlab, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Keycloak to provide project teams with a platform to meet their needs.
• Built a documentation site to render intuitive, versioned, searchable documentation from a number of source repositories using Python scripts to mutate and prepare docs to render with a Docusaurus front end. Jennis Lead Developer United States
May 2019 - Sep 2020
• Absorbed a large amount of domain knowledge under time pressure from the departing lead developer; liaised with the product manager and co-founders to plan the roadmap.
• Supported the integration with Terra to fetch data from various fitness wearables APIs and implemented features such as activity notifications to drive user engagement with the app.
• Paired with other engineers to investigate and resolve bugs in production. Azrieli Group AWS DevOps Engineer United States Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
• Built non-production development and staging environments using Terragrunt infrastructure as code.
• Wrote and deployed Selenium WebDriver browser automation test scripts for New Relic synthetic tests to test the health of application endpoints and basic consumer functionality, e.g., adding a product to the shopping cart, in all environments.
• Rebuilt new environments based on newly refactored pure Terraform code as part of a migration away from Terragrunt and prepared the migration from old environments to new. Curve Senior DevOps Engineer United States
Jul 2013 - Jan 2017
• Defined the mission as equipping our engineers with superpowers by providing them with best-in-class tools in all development lifecycle stages and proactively tackling inefficiency. Guided the newly-assembled team toward this goal.
• Helped push Curve to new heights, migrate their core platform to EKS, and accelerate dev productivity. Pushing for immutable infrastructure, I rolled out a GitOps workflow using Terraform (Atlantis) and FluxCD.
• Supported LBG’s aggressive recruitment strategy by delivering focused, high-quality technical training to new and existing employees, accelerating the journey toward having modern, high-performance DevOps teams.
• Designed a full-time intensive bootcamp course, including custom-made training material to teach JavaScript software development, DevOps, and automated testing best practices to this target audience.
• Delivered the course to several cohorts of students, producing 87 new DevOps engineers within one year. Each cohort was followed up with coaching and support through regular one-on-ones and working hands-on with teams.
Freelancer.com Freelance Web Developer
Sep 2007 - Apr 2013
• Developed websites and mobile applications for clients across a broad spectrum of industries such as art and media, dentistry, rental properties, children’s education, and charities.
• Managed the development of application concepts, including research, design, planning, and development. Contracted external roles such as photographer or copywriter where necessary to deliver exceptional results to clients.
• Achieved and sustained the first spot in Google search results for chosen phrases such as "freelance web developer Scotland" through active white-hat SEO.
• Set up and managed shared cPanel web hosting infrastructure, operated from Linux dedicated servers for over a decade with 99.9% availability.
• Enabled rapid growth for local businesses, with some clients achieving a 300% increase in revenue after launching an online presence due to organic search traffic. Education
Florida State University Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering Jul 2006 - Apr 2008
Florida State University Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering Apr 2003 - Jun 2006
Courses
AWS AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Oct 2018 - Present
Scrum Alliance Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
Jul 2020 - Present
Skills
CI/CD Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS Kubernetes
Terraform GitOps
AWS Python
JavaScript DevOps
Infrastructure as Code Docker
Linux Bash
Java Go
DevOps OOP
Scrum Flux
Selenium Docusaurus
DBMS Amazon S3
Elasticsearch PostgreSQL
Docker Amazon IAM
YAML
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