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    Asher Yanich

    Asher Yanich (He/Him)

    Dynamic and empathetic DevOps/SRE leader with 20+ years of experience building, scaling, and securing cloud-native infrastructure.

    Engineering Manager Boca Raton Florida International...
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    Experience
    Twitter
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    Twitter
    Engineering Manager 2010 - 2014 (over 4 years)
    - Managed all of Twitter’s Infrastructure and Servcies as a member of a small Operations team.
    - Scaled out our systems from a hosted DC to multiple DCs with 10s of thousands... more of machines.
    - Architected and built out the Site Reliability Engineering team to support and manage Twitter’s services.
    - Supported highly performant java applications (mostly frontend), ruby on rails, Apache Aurora/Mesos, infrastructure services such as puppet, openLDAP, DNS, monitoring, and developer productivity systems such as Jenkins, git, and svn.
    - Managed a highly productive SRE team supporting Developer Productivity, Trust & Safety Engineering, Analytics Pipeline, Streaming API, User Services (support.twitter.com), and Media Services.
    - Supported the migration of MoPub into the Twitter DC and software stack.
    - Managed virtual team in charge of developing large scale systems automation project using Ansible

    Senior Operations Engineer
    May 2010 - Apr 2012

    Whale hunting
    Flensing
    Scrimshaw
    Ambergris collecting
    Par Technology
    Par Technology
    Engineering Manager, DevSecOps
    Stash
    Stash
    Senior DevOps Engineering Manager 2021 - 2023 (about 2 years)
    - Implemented Oncall and Change Management processes for the DevOps team.
    - Launched cost savings initiatives focused on optimizing our AWS spend and efficiency, reducing... more RDS spend by over 50% in 6 months.
    - Led cross-team efforts to eliminate technical debt across our infrastructure.
    - Oversee vendor relationships with Percona, Hashicorp, and Akeyless.
    - Manage team of SWEs operating openResty/nginx application at our Edge, handling all edge traffic, as well as doing WAF and Bot Detection.
    - Lead efforts to migrate ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes.
    Omnivore
    Omnivore
    Director of Infrastructure 2020 - 2021 (10 months)
    - Migrated infrastructure from Ansible, Chef, and ECS to Terraform and EKS.
    - Developed processes to address a severely dysfunctional oncall and alerting system, saving
    the... more team from burnout, reducing alerting by 95%.
    - Spearheaded cost savings measures to optimize and understand all our cloud spend. Created a
    continuous review process reducing our bill by 35%.
    - Led the team to a successful PCI-DSS certification, which had almost lapsed due to staff turnovers and COVID.
    - Addressed technical debt across the whole stack.
    MediaMath
    MediaMath
    Senior Site Reliability Engineer 2018 - 2019 (over 1 year)
    In the period of a year I built a CI/CD pipeline for Chef connecting the git repos of cookbooks via CircleCI, utilizing test-kitchen and chefspec to add CI/CD to all internal... more cookbooks.

    Re-wrote and modularized the base cookbook of our main chef org, adding many many tests.

    This work allowed me to easily upgrade all Chef clients from 12->14 on 3000+ machines across multiple pops globally.

    - Built a custom deployment system tying together Chef databags with Docker tags via CircleCI, allowing developers to release their software themselves.
    - Wrote a custom handler for Chef to provide metrics back to Prometheus.
    - Wrote a wrapper cookbook to standardize our prometheus node exporter across all orgs.
    - Implemented and introduced policy files for managing hosts in chef
    - Wrote many wrapper cookbooks.
    - Created a 'chef-template_cookbook' repo as a standard for other engineers to utilize as a starting point for their chef cookbooks.
    - Automated TLS certificate renewals for services via Let's Encrypt and circleci
    - Implemented a fortnightly chef office hours meeting

    I also had responsibility for Prometheus, adding Blackbox exporter feature to our Prometheus install, re-factored our chef cookbooks that did the installs, creating a full integration suite in test-kitchen for them and managed and maintained the Terraform/Terragrunt plans for our install in AWS.
    Fastly
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    Fastly
    Senior Site Reliability Engineer 2015 - 2018 (about 3 years)
    - Managed various parts of the CDN infrastructure as part of a geographically distributed operations team.
    - Supported Image Optimization service, utilizing datadog/terraform/fabric/gcp.
    -... more Oversaw TLS Operations, H2O/HAProxy/Apache cert/key management
    - Migrated development environment from custom VMWare image to test-kitchen
    - Cookbook management, CI utilizing inspec/rubocop/jenkins/travis/test-kitchen
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    Fastly, Twitter, MediaMath, Omnivore, Stash, Par Technology
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    About
    Achievements

    PCI-DSS compliance, NIST-CSF, AWS FinOps, Incident Management. Cloud migrations and automation.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Chef Git Python Ruby Perl Terraform AWS/GCP/Azure CircleCI
    Locations
    Remote Florida
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