Nathan Kift

Led the design and execution of a migration off of Heroku to AWS EKS, providing production infrastructure and a platform to allow developers to self-serve.

Cut build times in half by optimizing docker builds, caching, and parallelizing. Reducing costs and allowing for shorter development cycles for product engineers.

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

Define and enforce SLAs and SLOs across the org to meet customer expectations and improve service quality.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including security and analytics to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration as well as enforce best practices in secret management, automatic dependency updates, and monitoring.

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 Laravel 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 with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring, resulting in streamlined operations and reduced manual efforts.

Conducted performance analysis and optimization of cloud resources, identifying areas for improvement and implementing cost-effective solutions.

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.

Assisted in coding tasks using 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.