Reece Iriye
Lead DevOps Engineer for 5G Core SCP & NRF @ Verizon | Kubernetes (k8s), Python, Istio, Networking, Prometheus/Grafana, Linux | Speaker
- Role
- Network Engineer at Verizon
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Reece Iriye
I am currently a DevOps Engineer @ Verizon who builds, upgrades, and scales 5G Core…
Experience
Network Engineer
Jun 2024 — Present · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX, US
Technologies: Kubernetes, Python, Linux, Istio, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, MySQL• Directed largest 5G outage bridge in 2025 impacting customers nationwide; restored traffic identifying impacted Kubernetes clusters and rebooting critical apps for minimum viable functionality first, then redundancy• Cut Prometheus metric cardinality by 98.6% for Kubernetes-deployed 5G Core applications, directly averting a $3.4M vendor contract expansion and eliminating ~70% of reporting lag• Own SRE & DevOps for Verizon’s 5G Core Service Communication Proxy (SCP) & Network Repository Function (NRF)—Kubernetes/Openshift-native NF’s processing 40M+ subscriber devices and 1 billion peak req/hr across U.S.• Replaced legacy Kubernetes CRD with Terraform to manage Infoblox DNS entry state for 5G Core SCP & NRF, eliminating 100% of buggy workloads and simplifying DNS lifecycle managementBuilt Python API detecting 4G routing misconfigurations, preventing outage scenarios valued at $200K+ each• Patenting DNS Edge mapping solution for SCP/NRF involving CNAME records, cutting future capacity buildout resource needs by 80% and accelerating deployment efforts by 2+ months• Designed & implementing on-prem Kubernetes multi-cluster scaling framework for SCP, enabling 500% traffic growth and improving debugging fidelity through partitioning ingress traffic by client origination• Automated Istio service mesh onboarding with Python, reducing manual config time by ~4+ hours per FQDN batch and eliminating error-prone manual CRD edits
Education
Southern Methodist University
Bachelor of Science - BS
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