Elena G. Washington
Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Gusto
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WORK HISTORY
Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Gusto
New York, NY, US
Owned Disaster Recovery strategy across 50+ microservices, aligning product, security, and platform teams; primary owner for DR go-live readiness checks• Led multi-year DR program; built a FastAPI-based orchestration service to automate multi-region failover and reduce RTO from hours to <20 minutes• Designed and implemented global database and cache failover architecture (Aurora Global Database, ElastiCache global replication, cross-region secrets) supporting automated recovery workflows• Built internal Spacelift CLI using GraphQL APIs to support infrastructure operations and workflows at scale• Delivered validated $51.6K in annual AWS cost savings through FinOps automation and production-safe optimization work
EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering
ABOUT ELENA G. WASHINGTON
Staff Site Reliability Engineer | Disaster Recovery & Cloud Infrastructure
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