Peter Szabo

About Peter Szabo

Senior technology and data focused leader with over 20 Years of experience delivering SaaS platforms in Tax services, E-commerce, Healthcare, Financials, Manufacturing and Online Advertising technology.• Optimizing operational organization aligning business vision and KPIs• Hiring and managing top tier development and operations engineering teams, local and remote• Strong technical grasp in AWS, development, distributed architecture, operational business intelligence, modeling and forecasting• Analyze, build and manage capital and operational budgets while negotiating and managing contracts and service / supply chain• Deep project life-cycle experience in the engineering frameworks, Agile and sprint cycles• Requirements definition, conceptualization, cost analysis, gate planning, testing and maintenance • Lean Six Sigma methodologies, Technical Project Management, ITIL frameworks, compliance and risk assessment• Track record of ability to leverage internal resources along with external augmentation to deliver within cost and timetables.• Cloud architecture, AWS, GCP, Linux, Windows, Mongo, SnowFlake along with open source deployments

Experience

1. VP Reliability Engineering

   Avalara

   Nov 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Avalara - Global Tax ComplianceManaging Avalara Technical Site Reliability, Sustainment Engineering and Automation Tool Development teams and Production Systems across 17 locations worldwide- Uplevel over 40 Products and hundreds of tax subproducts- Acquisition Due Diligence and Integration across US, EU, ASEAN and LATAM- Transforming engineering to DevOps culture through standards, training and processes- Migration of all core products & acquisitions from metal datacenters to distributed AWS, GCP- Development of a cloud agnostic abstraction platform layer to enable cookie cutter migration between clouds and geo. Accelerate time to market, active / active, ransomware protection and reduce cognitive load on application layer engineers increasing time on R&D vs CoR activity - Development of common shared services across global product set increasing engineer portability- Unification and Standardization of technology platforms with a focus on scale, technology efficiency and cost- Standardization of technology policy and processes for increasing velocity, security and common knowledge base- Driving performance QA, code and algorithm telemetry to improve SLAs, new common CI/CD framework and tooling infrastructure, load and pen test environments- Driving margins and CoR performance as reported in public filings

Education

• Azusa Pacific University

  Master of Science, Computer Sciences - Technical Programming

• College Dawson

  DEC, Analytical Chemistry

Skills

• Wan
• Network Design
• Aws
• Java
• Ipsec
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• F5
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Dns
• Operational Cost Analysis
• Management
• Integration
• Vmware Esx
• High Availability
• Vmware
• Hadoop
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Vendor Management
• Distributed Systems
• Load Balancing
• Cisco Technologies
• Vpn
• Strategy
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Network Security
• Hadoop Infrastructure
• Budgeting
• Ccnp
• Databases
• Mcitp
• Project Management
• Program Management
• Applications Delivery
• IT Operations
• Migration Management
• Itil
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Ccna