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Adam E Witt

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Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud Architect

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8+
Years Exp
3
Clouds
5+
Certs
01.

About

Experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Cloud Architect with a demonstrated history of working in a fast paced and highly demanding role, implementing and developing DevOps methods and principles with an Agile workflow.

5744 Shannon Trail SE Prior Lake, MN 55372
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Cloud Infrastructure

Multi-cloud architecture & IaC

DevOps & SRE

CI/CD, observability, reliability

MLOps

ML pipelines & model deployment

02.

Work History

Lexis Nexis
20242025

Sr Cloud Engineer

iA American Warranty Group
20222024

Principal Cloud Architect

Oversee multi-cloud Azure/AWS environments. Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure solutions via Terraform and Azure DevOps. Create blue/green software deployments for in house applications. Train employees on IaC techniques, Kubernetes management, and various automation using TeamCity, Octopus, and Jenkins.

Slower Consulting Group
20212022

MLOps Consultant / Engineer

Designed, developed, and implemented a Machine Learning Stack for a Financial Services MLOps Team. Using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) with Terraform, created an end-to-end pipeline incorporating Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Data Factory with data ingestion from a Snowflake Datalake.

C.H. Robinson
20192021

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Monitor and maintain Azure Kubernetes clusters (KubeCost, AlertManager, ELK, Prometheus, LENs). Deploy new infrastructure for Data Scientists as needed via IAC, GitHub, Terraform, ArgoCD. Kubernetes performance tuning and dynamic scaling via HPAs.

03.

Tech Stack

Terraform
90%
Kubernetes
90%
DevOps
95%
Agile
95%
Azure
90%
AWS
80%
Databases
90%
Multi-lingual
90%
Knowledge
80%
04.

What I Do

Cloud Architect

Lead cultural change for cloud adoption. Develop and coordinate cloud architecture. Develop a cloud strategy and coordinate the adaptation process. Assessing applications, software and hardware. Establish best practices for cloud across the company. Selecting cloud providers and vetting third-party services. Oversee governance and mitigate risk. Work closely with IT security to monitor privacy and develop incident-response procedures. Managing budgets and estimating cost. Operating at scale.

DevOps & MLOps

Train employees on Terraform best practices. Help developers with pipelines, code, general support via Azure DevOps. Design and Implement Azure IaC and Pipeline. Setup Monitoring, Alerting, and Logging to be captured by Azure's built in offerings as well as custom built ELK stack on Kubernetes for a consolidated view.

Consulting

Monitor and maintain Azure Kubernetes clusters (KubeCost, AlertManager, ELK, Prometheus, LENs). Deploy new infrastructure for Data Scientists as needed via IAC, GitHub, Terraform, ArgoCD. Kubernetes performance tuning and dynamic scaling via HPAs. Configure cross cluster communications with least privileged access. Documentation, Training materials, Demos, R&D, Machine Learning design and deployment via Azure ML.

05.

Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or just want to chat about cloud architecture, DevOps, or infrastructure? My inbox is always open.

Location

5744 Shannon Trail SE Prior Lake, MN 55372