Nathan Kift

Led design and execution of migration from Heroku to AWS EKS, an organization-wide infrastructure transformation affecting 40+ engineers across 8 product teams.

Reduced CI/CD costs by 60% moving to self-hosted Github Actions Runners and leveraging ARC and Karpenter for dynamic provisioning and auto-scaling.

Architected SQL-based monitoring solution integrated with Honeycomb, providing real-time visibility into critical business operations and early warning capabilities for incident prevention for product engineering teams.

Designed and coded incident response slack bot that democratized access to common incident response tools, reducing the dependency on platform engineers to be available for every incident and reducing time to incident resolution.

Led incident response as de facto Incident Commander, coordinating teams during production issues and managing post-incident retrospectives and action items.

Reduced application build times by 50% through optimization of Docker builds, caching strategies, and parallel execution workflows

Pioneered adoption of OpenTelemetry logging SDK with custom rails logger and formatter. Implemented structured logging with additional business metadata sent to Honeycomb, enabling unified correlation between logs and traces.

Designed real-time data pipeline from PostgreSQL to DMS to Snowflake via S3, establishing foundation for organization-wide analytics capabilities.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, and lead company wide demos and training sessions for internal tooling.

Led and managed a team of 3, covering all company infrastructure, IT, and QA operations.

Successfully migrated legacy architecture to Kubernetes, improving both Laravel and Node.js application deployment and management lifecycle.

Led the transformation of operations practices from legacy methods to continuous deployment and containerization, enabling faster and more efficient software releases.

Developed and implemented guidelines and standard practices for cloud security and governance, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Collaborated cross-functionally to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, resulting in streamlined operations and reduced manual efforts.

Led and managed an engineering team of 5.

Designed and implemented ETL systems, including an analytics pipeline built with Flink, Kafka, and Cassandra. The pipeline efficiently processed tens of thousands of requests per second from consumer devices, providing the core product offering.

Collaborated with Fortune 100 clients on large-scale cloud integrations and deployments of PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions, ensuring seamless integration and meeting client requirements for security and compliance.

Spearheaded the migration of the company's legacy infrastructure to containers and Kubernetes, leveraging KOPS on AWS.

Microservices development with Java / Play framework, actively contributing to the development of critical components and features.

Developed a 3D data viewer utilizing Three.js and AngularJS, contributing to the front end development efforts and creating an immersive visualization experience for users.