Claire Hodge

About Claire Hodge

Seasoned Platform Engineer adept in greenfield and legacy implementations and optimizations of Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines. Juggler of two dogs and a cat, and an avid runner who chases personal bests on the trail and in infrastructure, always sprinting towards scalable, resilient systems.

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer (Platform Infrastructure Sre Devops)

   CallRail

   Aug 2023 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Rewrote Terraform modules and optimized deployment processes (terraform plan and apply) by modularizing state files per service from a monorepo structure, accelerating containerized application deployments on AWS by 11x using GitHub Actions for CI/CD, while analyzing and enhancing networking and storage configurations for improved security, reduced risks, and scalable high availability.Analyzed existing CI/CD pipelines to identify improvements, implementing reusable GitHub Actions workflows with DRY principles to streamline automation and support collaborative, multi-week development cycles.Ensured compliance and high availability through automated, cross-region RDS backups on AWS, breaking down complex backup strategies and documenting solutions for relational database management.Collaborated with cross-functional product teams to architect innovative infrastructure solutions, scripting in Bash and Python to integrate services like AWS Glue, Lambda, Redshift, and S3 for efficient data handling.Leveraged generative AI tooling to boost productivity, iterating on infrastructure designs to analyze and improve system performance in fast-paced environments.

Education

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  2017

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Affairs

  2009 — 2011