Adam E Witt

About

  • Phone: +1 952-454-1382
  • Email: witt@allthingsops.io
  • Address: 5744 Shannon Trail SE Prior Lake, MN 55372

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.

Skills

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

Experiences

Principal Cloud Architect

2022-2024

iA American Warranty Group

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. Develop and maintain infrastructure standards; develop server build and configuration standards; plan and oversee adherence to change management and release management processes Create and maintain proper documentation for all actions, practices, procedures and processes Administer and troubleshoot infrastructure systems Oversee administration of systems maintained by the systems team including Windows OS, Backup Systems, SAN, Exchange, File Servers, Print Servers Provide expertise in advanced/complex technical areas including SAN, VMWare, load balancing, and fail-over/clustering Provide technical support and engineering support for Active Directory, group policy, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server

MLOps Consultant / Engineer

2021-2022

Slower Consulting Group

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 to allow Data Scientists to easily test, train, and deploy their models in a secure and isolated environment. All configured via various Azure DevOps Pipelines and Repository templates. Monitor and maintain Azure Kubernetes clusters (KubeCost, AlertManager, ELK, Prometheus, LENs). Setup Monitoring, Alerting, and Logging to be captured by Azure’s built in offerings as well as shipping to a custom built ELK stack on Kubernetes for a consolidated view.

Sr. Cloud Engineer

2019-2021

C.H. Robinson

Monitor and maintain Azure Kubernetes clusters (KubeCost, AlertManager, ELK, Prometheus, LENs) Deploy new infrastructure for Data Scientists as needed via IAC, GitHub, Terraform, ArgoCD to follow the fail fast methodology 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.

Projects

Services

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 Creating a “cloud broker team” 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 scal

DevOps & MLOps

Train employees on Terraform best practices. Help developers with pipelines, code, general support via Azure DevOps Designe and Implemente 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 views.

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 to follow the fail fast methodology 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.

Contact

Call:

+1 952-454-1382

Address:

5744 Shannon Trail SE Prior Lake, MN 55372