Personal details

Jessie R.

Timezone: Pacific Time (US & Canada) (UTC-7)

Summary

I started my career with accounting software and data systems. In 2015 I graduated DevBootcamp (SF), and transitioned to FinTech.
I’m formally trained on Google's SRE methodology, and I later expanded my formal training to include Kubernetes on GKE/EKS. I'm a backend girl with xp at scale in data pipelines, infrastructure/architecture, load balancing, & CICD.

Technical skills

Docker & Kubernetes・6 yrs AWS/GCP・8 yrs Site Reliability Engineering・8 yrs MongoDB Atlas・5 yrs Terraform・4 yrs

Work Experience

Engineering Manager

Vox Media | Sep 2021 - Jul 2023

MongoDB

Redis

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

AWS EKS

GitHub Actions

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Managed business priorities and tech debt, hiring and mentoring SREs at all levels, and reducing infrastructure costs. Created agile team rituals to organize roadmap, epics, and backlog. Established team working agreements, as well as supervised on-call rotation and incident response. Unified cloud and CDN infrastructure to ensure future platform compatibility and support.

Senior SRE

Vox Media | Sep 2018 - Sep 2021

Heroku

Javascript memory leaks

GitLab

Google Cloud Platform

Datadog

Docker Registry

Prometheus

MongoDB Atlas

GitLab CI/CD

Docker & Kubernetes

-Migrate critical services from AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) to Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), while simultaneously migrating CICD pipelines from CircleCI to GitHub Actions. - Migrating live production client instances from Heroku to GKE, with 0 down time - Solved scalability problem by working with development team to create an archiving feature which enabled product economic viability by allowing comment data to grow unbounded.