Ross Arena

About Ross Arena

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS• Over 10 years of professional programming experience• Specializes in DevSecOps • Experience with leading software development teams• Working knowledge in all stages of SDLC• Adept computer networking solving skillsHighly motivated DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing continuous integration, delivery, and deployment pipelines. Proficient in leveraging industry-leading tools and technologies to automate software development, testing, and deployment processes, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced time-to-market. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS• As the tech lead of a big data project, I increased the productivity of the dev team by over 50% and established a feature development strategy which allowed us to deliver a production ready product months ahead of schedule• I am a GE Vernova Award recipient of the Impact Award: Lead with Transparency for providing guidance and leadership to multiple external teams• I am a GE Vernova Award recipient of Leading with Transparency in Q3 2022• I assisted the AWS Cost Control team with creating new Schedule and TTL tags which allowed EC2 instances to be ran on-demand saving around 2k per month for my team’s budget alone• I have deployed over 50 Kubernetes clusters for rapid application development and testing purposes• I have worked as a release engineer responsible for deploying monthly releases for a number of customer products• I helped compile a library of around 86 KT recordings on various technologies and software products in GE Vernova• I have identified bottlenecks in CI/CD pipelines and have introduced new automation techniques which have saved thousands of hours in building and deploying release artifacts• Acting Agile Scrum Master for scrum team of 8 employees from May 2024 to Nov 2024 and maintained an average team velocity >= 64pts and an average team Say/ Do at >= 90%Languages: Python, Typescript, JavaScriptFrameworks: Angular 19+, React, Zend, DrupalTools: VS Code, VIM, EclipseTeam Collaboration: Jira, qTest, Confluence, OutlookRDBMS / ORM: Postgres, MySQL, Doctrine2

Experience

1. Sr Software Engineer

   GE Vernova

   Aug 2021 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Former tech lead of a Big Data project. Acting Security Champion and DevOps engineer with a specialization in security. Builds scalable Kubeflow pipelines using MLRun and Dask enabling data scientists to efficiently prototype, train, and deploy predictive ML models.Proven DevOps expertise in implementing and managing RKE2 cluster environments. Skilled in utilizing IaC principles to manage cloud infrastructure efficiently, leading to reduced manual intervention and greater scalability.

Education

• University of Central Florida

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Sql
• Linux
• C++
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Java
• Lamp
• Xhtml
• Git
• Jquery
• Xml
• Rest
• Css
• Database Administration
• User Experience
• Html
• Php
• Wordpress
• Python
• Subversion
• C#
• Oop
• Mysql
• Apache
• Oracle
• Angularjs