Israel Farfan

•Lead team of Devs/Sysops from a reactive mindset to a pro-active and long term vision of the stack. •Reduce overall costs by 20% within first 3 months. •Architect implementation of extensive monitoring to ensure business uptime and continuity (via Icinga, Monit, Sentry, Pingdom & PagerDuty). •Architect implementation of extensive metrics/utilization dashboards for resource optimization and capacity planning (via Dashing, Collectd, Graphite, GDash, Kibana, Logstash & Rsyslog).

•Mentor, train and manage a team of 3 Ops engineers and 1 project manager, overseeing a 24/7 web environment of 400+ AWS nodes. •Introduce Collectd/Graphite for capacity planning and to identify savings of up to 40% of yearly costs. •Restructure hosted JIRA/Confluence solution. •Architect, plan & execute restructuring of current AWS infrastructure for reliability, scalability, cost savings and overall efficiency gains.

•Architect website infrastructure of 60+ nodes in AWS using Amazon Command/API tools and CloudFront, EBS, EC2, ElastiCache, RDS, Route53 and S3. •Reduce recurring hosting costs by close to 50% by drastically terminating vendors, right-sizing contracts to true usage/capacity and purchasing Reserved Instances for EC2 and RDS on AWS. •Perform automatic, zero-touch server configuration management and orchestration via Ansible.

•Implement and administer robust and scalable mission-critical systems within the AWS framework across multiple geographical zones. •Build complex site alerting system involving 3rd party vendors and internal solutions to ensure 99.99% platform uptime. •Build and manage extensive monitoring and analysis dashboards that report on extensive operational metrics of platform’s health for preventive and ad-hoc maintenance. •Oversee day to day operations of a 24/7 high traffic web environment of 200+ AWS nodes.

•Architect and Technical Team Lead with full ownership of complete product life cycle for company’s web properties (US & International). •Provision, deploy, maintain and support 3rd party-developed websites (Flash, Facebook Apps, LAMP, ASP.Net) on virtual, cloud-hosted and physical company-hosted servers. •First point of contact for all company’s web software/hardware maintenance and support. •Manage an international web portfolio of 900+ domains.

•Architect and Developer of real-time online reservation engines for organization’s ecommerce sites: europeexpress.com, go-today.com, and virgin-vacations.com. •Provide software and hardware support for Galileo® technology: Air-Travel CRS. •Administrator of all network equipment. •Administrator of a Windows NT domain of 6 servers, 10 printers, 40 users, and 60+ terminals. •Provide data mining for desktop publishing of organization’s publications, sales brochures and client directories.