Taylor Burt

About Taylor Burt

My background has a very wide variety of skills that I have learned from both school education and work experience. Through my education, I have learned and practiced the fundamentals of a business management through the multiple organizations I have lead. Through my work history, I have honed my computer management and development skills from the years of experience in the field. My experience has put me in a position to offer the best of both computer and business management. Whatever I lack in experience I make up for in work ethics.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer Team Lead

   Spokeo

   Dec 2019 — Present

   Manage Ruby and Node webapp in AWS (EC2/S3/CloudFront/Route53/RDS) with Ansible/Jenkins on Amazon Linux.Doubled team productivity, measured by sprint velocity, by reducing infrastructure complexity, breaking down tasks to increase parallelism and improving story refinement process.Develop a variety of custom tools in python.Designed full CI/CD pipeline to take code from commit to production via jenkins.Lead efforts to implement infrastructure as code through terraform.Extended network architecture to add VPC network segmentation for introduction of regulated data.Designed ephemeral EMR pipeline to support data transformation process via MWAA, Jenkins, Ansible.Manage logs via ELK, written grok filters to parse and sanitized data.Lead migration of apps to containerization via eks, argocd, karpenter and helm.Troubleshoot live production problems and identify root cause both in code and infra.Reduced AWS costs by / year via identifying application inefficiencies.(s3 data retention policies, abandon data stores, ebs volume clean up)Entertain weekly knowledge transfer sessions to increase transparency and cross pollination.

Education

• California State University-Northridge

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Ansible
• Event Planning
• Windows Server
• Open Source
• Red Hat Linux
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Program Development
• Go
• Team Management
• Powerpoint
• Public Relations
• Os X
• Ftp
• Mariadb
• Dns
• Customer Service
• Mysql
• Linux
• Windows
• Bash
• Financial Accounting
• Kibana
• Centos
• Microsoft Office
• Cisco Ios
• Sales Management
• Postgresql
• Ubuntu
• Dhcp
• Financial Analysis
• Ruby
• Public Speaking
• Research
• Social Networking
• Grok Patterns
• Fundraising
• Logstash
• Financial Reporting
• Volunteer Management