ANDY SWANSON

DEVOPS ARCHITECT | CLOUD ARCHITECT | AWS MIGRATION PLANNING | INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT | CI/CD PIPELINE

ABOUT

15 + years technical experience that spans operations, cloud architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, development, and
customer support. Work daily with AWS, chef, packer, CloudFormation, Jenkins, and lots of other tool chains
specific to IaC and ci/cd. I have spent the last 8 years in DevOps within aws in many different types of platforms
where I have built automation from scratch or helped design pieces of a much larger platform.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GRANITE CLOUD CONSULTING LLC – MANCHESTER, NH

March 2018–Present
DevOps Architect Consultant
Projects:
▪ AWS Migration from applications hosted in multiple colo facilities in US.
▪ IaC with CloudFormation for many aws accounts and environments fully integrated with Jenkins as
pipelines.
▪ Config automation / provisioning with chef and lots of custom cookbook/resource authoring.
▪ Built ECS Docker (EC2/Fargate) platform with magneto, Redis, rds (mysql), and solr clusters with full
automation tied into Jenkins pipelines.
▪ Built monitoring and telemetry solutions with new relic, CloudWatch, graphite, collectd, and
LogicMonitor.
▪ CI/CD with Jenkins, chef, packer, docker, kitchen, inspec, and CloudFormation.
▪ IaC and config automation with puppet, ansible, and terraform (vsphere).
▪ Lambda, sns, DynamoDB integration for dynamic dns and dynamic cluster builds.

IBM – LITTLETON, MA
Oct 2017–Feb 2018
Cloud Operations Manager
▪ Manage a team of Sr. SRE’s, external contractors, and technical writers
▪ Mentor staff and develop team skills as well as team integration with other groups.
▪ Lead automation and configuration management efforts across the platform
▪ Infrastructure design for the platform which involved full config automation via ansible, python, and
other custom solutions in a “software defined everything” platform.

MIRROR IMAGE DDN – BOSTON, MA

Feb 2010–Oct 2017
Principal Infrastructure & DevOps Architect
▪ Large scale application migration of 13 physical data centers (multiple tiers) into the public cloud
space. (aws, SoftLayer, linode)
▪ Architect for multiple public cloud application migration planning and design (build from scratch)
▪ Platform design, technical ownership, and direction to all facets of operations platform.
▪ Launch enterprise monitoring and telemetry collection through collectd, statsd , graphite, CloudWatch,
and new relic.
▪ IaC with terraform and integration into Jenkins pipelines.
▪ Config automation with puppet, mcollective, puppetdb , and salt
▪ Infrastructure and network designs in both physical and public cloud sites worldwide.

ENDURANCE INTERNATIONAL GROUP – BURLINGTON, MA

Aug 2005–Jan 2010

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Infrastructure and Network Architect
▪ Lead for large migrations of different technology stacks into the Endurance platform including all
service migrations to Windows and full platform design.
▪ Team lead for windows/Linux platform design and support for 800k customer base.
▪ Tier3 customer facing technical issues across the platform.
▪ Implement the platform’s design and architecture involving storage, network, IIS, monitoring, load
balance, and DNS.
▪ Development and automation for hosting platform, which involved creating platform with service
provisioning and migration tools.

EARLIER CAREER

AVICI SYSTEMS – BILLERICA, MA

Customer Support Engineer
Business Application Support

Jac Pac – MANCHESTER, NH

Information Technology Administrator

Bay Networks – BILLERICA, MA

Network Administrator

TECHNICAL ACUMEN

DevOps Toolset: Puppet | PuppetDB | MCollective | Terraform | Vagrant Packer |

GitLab,GitHub | Consul | Vault | Libcloud | Artifactory| Confluence | Jira |
Redmine | Salt | Chef | Ansible | CloudFormation
Clouds: Aws | SoftLayer | Linode
Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS) | Solaris | Windows
Monitoring Tools: Graphite | Collectd | Statsd | Grafana | Nagios | KeyNote | Gomez
Database: Mysql | postgresql | Oracle
Web Server: Apache | jetty | node.js
Server Load Balancing (SLB) and Global Nginx | ELB | A10 | F5 | Citrix | Cisco CSS | Haproxy| Keepalived
Server Load Balancing:
Programming Language: Python | Ruby | Groovy | Bash
Virtual / Container Environments: Vagrant, Docker, ECS, VirtualBox, KVM, EKS (non-prod), K8’s
Platform as a service (PaaS): Minimal Beanstalk
CI/CD Servers: DeployBot | Gitlab | Jenkins | GoCD (minimal)| GitHub
Source Control: Gitlab| SVN | GitHub

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