Ritchie L.

About Ritchie L.

Manage highly secure AWS infrastructure with terraform (Infrastructure as Code). Using terraform modules to ensure consistency and secure defaults to enable developers to rapidly deploy new services. Recently focused on reducing cloud costs through a variety of methods. Create hardened golden images for VMs and containers. Frequently collaborate with the security team to ensure HITRUST compliance and security standards are met for all infrastructure and gather relevant evidence during audits. Also work with development teams to ensure infrastructure for new services is in line with our security and compliance demands.

Experience

1. Staff Platform Engineer

   Arrive Health

   Jan 2022 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Cloud cost reduction with savings plans, load based autoscaling, and rightsizing database instances.+ Collaborated with Developers to optimize application performance, achieving significant performance improvements validated by load testing and confirmed once live in production.+ Load testing new services to ensure they meet performance and scalability requirements.

Education

• Hope College

  Bachelor of Arts, Japanese Studies

  2005 — 2009

• Meiji Gakuin University

  Certificate of Graduation, Japanese Language & Culture

  2007 — 2008

Skills

• Red Hat Linux
• Quality Assurance
• Python
• Ubuntu
• Kubernetes
• QA Engineering
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Performance Testing
• Unix
• Management
• Shell Scripting
• Sql
• Linux
• Postgresql
• Data Analysis
• Cassandra
• Web Analytics
• Docker
• Freebsd
• Automation
• Databases
• Bash
• Git
• Saltstack
• Devops
• Vmware
• Hadoop
• Mysql
• Ksh
• Centos
• Networking
• Virtualization
• Research
• Web Development
• Cloud Computing
• Data Visualization