Riva Davidowski

About Riva Davidowski

I am a platform engineer who has collaborated with various client and internal teams to help design, build, and deploy solutions that meet clients\' evolving needs. As a consultant I have gained hands-on experience in is assisting with cloud migrations, building infrastructure with CloudFormation and Terraform, and CI/CD enhancements. My background: Before tech I worked in many different industries and honestly have had a wild ride in my career. I believe that I can learn anything (erm, well, mostly anything) with the right mindset so I experimented with my career and took a lot of risks. I transitioned into tech (with a focus on software engineering) in 2020.YOU out there reading this should also know I still love coding so software engineering (my background) is near and dear to my heart.A bit more about me- I care a lot about how my work impacts my team and clients. Ultimately I want to do an awesome job- I take a highly proactive approach to my work - I am self motivated and passionate! On all the teams I\'ve worked on, feedback from teammates always mentions my passion, curiosity and willingness to jump into unknown territory- I am a rigorous note taker - I reflect. a lot - I set the bar high for the work I deliver and like to bring a can do attitude onto teams (Let\'s do the thang!)- I am a reliable teammate - Integrity, creativity, curiosity, humor, and grit are some of my key attributes I am most proud of. I\'m fun to work with :) Off the clock, I enjoy movies, shows, indoor climbing, longboarding, aerial arts (with a heavy focus on static trapeze), learning languages (Russian, Swedish, German), playing chess, reading, cooking, painting, and tending to my many plants. I love all things culinary and take joy in learning about cultures and foods from around the world. I am interested in the story and design behind products and how they work to impact the customer experience.

Experience

1. Platform Engineer

   Slalom

   Sep 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Client Projects: Amazon Retail: AWS Service Migration (Region Flex, eu-west-1 → eu-south-2)- Delivered migration/replication of services from eu-west-1 to eu-south-2 using internal Amazon tooling- Appointed team lead by AWS team to help unblock engineers with version set problems, package conflicts, and migration tasks to increase delivery timelines- Automated 1-hour permissions workflows into 1-click requests- Improved infra runbooks and authored runbooks for variety of migration tasks ((replication, rollback monitors) to support cross-region reliability- Led process improvement and automation planning for scalable future migrations.Health Services Company- Built GitLab CICD pipeline for Terraform with Atmos; automated planning/applying across environments- Created reusable templates for Terraform AWS modules with pre-commit, Trivy, tflint, validate- Automated semantic release versioning- Developed CICD component repo and module templates for S3, IAM, batch compute, and Storage Lens. Entertainment services company: ​Delivering a better AI chatbot experience and use LLM by event discovery​- Deployed App Runner instances and ECR for AI chatbot backend- Enhanced Lambda functions to process frontend messages and publish to SNS (via Lambda function URL, API Gateway, IAM, S3)- Authored documentation on deployment flows, LLM integration, and Docker image usage.Healthcare Technology: Migration of Kafka and Zookeeper clusters from Azure to AWS​ and IaC- Customized and managed infrastructure resources using Terraform - Installed and configured Cloudwatch and Datadog on clusters (linux scripting, SSH, tailing logs) Internal Project: Application for sharing an internal methodology to clients - Migrated AWS infrastructure into new accounts (Dev, QA, Stage, Prod)- Helped establish production readiness and release processes- Documented CFN deployments; built custom QE pipelines for test data management.

Education

• Appalachian State University

  Bachelor of Arts, Communications; International Public Relations

  2009 — 2011