I am a Technical Leader with 19+ years of experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and driving industry-wide impact. I have a proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from concept to production, with a focus on building infrastructure and tooling products. I place a strong emphasis on team leadership and clear communication. In recent roles as Sr Site Reliability Engineer and Sr DevOps Engineer, I have focused on reducing toil through automation, implementing GitOps and CI/CD workflows, and guiding production SaaS upgrades. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platforms and scalable solutions across cloud environments.

Carl J. Gustas

I am a Technical Leader with 19+ years of experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and driving industry-wide impact. I have a proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from concept to production, with a focus on building infrastructure and tooling products. I place a strong emphasis on team leadership and clear communication. In recent roles as Sr Site Reliability Engineer and Sr DevOps Engineer, I have focused on reducing toil through automation, implementing GitOps and CI/CD workflows, and guiding production SaaS upgrades. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platforms and scalable solutions across cloud environments.

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I am a Technical Leader with 19+ years of experience architecting large-scale distributed systems and driving industry-wide impact. I have a proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from concept to production, with a focus on building infrastructure and tooling products. I place a strong emphasis on team leadership and clear communication.

In recent roles as Sr Site Reliability Engineer and Sr DevOps Engineer, I have focused on reducing toil through automation, implementing GitOps and CI/CD workflows, and guiding production SaaS upgrades. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platforms and scalable solutions across cloud environments.

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Work Experience

Sr Site Reliability Engineer at Simspace
January 1, 2023 - Present
Maintained over 20 Kubernetes clusters by implementing the GitOps continuous delivery pattern using Kustomize manifests as IaC and deploying with ArgoCD to roll out new features and upgrades. Identify areas of developer toil to create and implement automated or self-service solutions to empower developers and eliminate impediments. Utilize CI/CD tooling to automate code promotion workflow activities to increase efficiency around releasing new features from development to production environments. Designed iteration of ConcourseCI pipelines to build docker images, update Kustomize manifests in Github to use newly built image, and push image to private Docker registry. Orchestrated production SaaS platforms upgrades and migrations with various leadership teams.
Sr DevOps Engineer at Fiddler Labs
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Led a team of DevOps Engineers that supported over 50 developers across multiple disciplines. Integrated multiple security policies and tools as the organization worked through various security compliances. Implemented additional CI/CD tools such as Argo CD, Argo Workflows and reorganized repositories during a BitBucket to GitHub migration. Evaluated and integrated multiple enhancements to the Fiddler technology stack. Reduced company spend on cloud resources by implementing descheduling tools, auto-scalers and high-level deployment tools to simplify and automate common tasks.
Deployment Engineer at Algorithmia / DataRobot
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Worked closely with enterprise customers to deploy Kubernetes-based MLOps solutions in a variety of cloud providers. Served as first point of contact for customer incident management and troubleshooting. Collaborated with Customer Success and Platform Engineering to design custom solutions for both PoC and existing customer installs. Participated in pre-production deployment testing for platform qualification. Led collaborations between Algorithmia and DataRobot engineering to integrate and consolidate product features post-acquisition.
Solutions Engineer at Cequence Security
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020
Served as lead technical advisor in proof of concept engagements. Led product demonstrations tailored to audience seniority and industry verticals. Performed product integrations and installations in diverse infrastructure environments. Architected and documented various deployment models for product integration. Worked closely with threat intelligence and data science teams to develop product enhancements and additional data models.
Solutions Engineer at Akamai Technologies
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2018
Supported Major Account Executives in the pre-sales process. Understand customer business drivers and match those to Akamai technologies. Engineered adaptations of Akamai products and services to fit customer’s business objectives. Work with customer DevOps teams to automate and integrate proposed solutions. Lead Proof of Concepts and Integrations orchestrating multiple internal teams. Perform product demos for content delivery, security, and DNS solutions.

Education

BS Computer Information Systems at Buffalo State College
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2004
AAS Computer Information Systems at Eric Community College
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2002

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services