Seth McCombs Resume

email: seth@seth-mccombs.com
linkedin.com/in/sethmccombs

DevOps, Kubernetes and containers, SRE, build automating, all sorts of cloud infra and container stuff

Skills

Clouds

• GCP

• AWS

• Docker & containerd

• Kubernetes

Programming Languages

• Python
• GoLang

Education

• Associates in Applied Science, Entrepreneurial Business
  • Monroe Community College Rochester, NY - 2011

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AcuityMD

Senior Engineer - Core Infrastructure
November 2022 - Current

• Managed GCP based Cloud Infrastructure
• Migrated manually provisioned resources to automated Terraform using Atlantis
• Transition from GCP CloudBuild to GitHub Actions
• Oversaw build-out of GKE based Kubernetes clusters for production workloads
• Deployed ArgoCD for deployment of all Kubernetes based components

Crunchyroll

Tech Lead - Kubernetes and Containers
Sep 2022 - November 2022 San Francisco, CA

• 1 of 3 Tech Leads on the DevOps team:
  • Tasked with being first point of contact should our teammates need assistance
  • Focused on knowledge sharing and documentation throughout the team and engineering org
  • SME on Kubernetes and Container based platforms

(continued prior responsibilities as Senior Engineer on DevOps team)

Senior DevOps Engineer
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
San Francisco, CA

• Built and maintained cloud infrastructure with Terraform and in-house Cloudformation tooling
• Managed CI/CD and Build Systems including:
  • Jenkins
  • CircleCI
  • Spinnaker/ArmoryCD
• Lead engineer on EKS based Kubernetes migration
  • Istio rollout
  • Migration of VM based services to containers and into Kubernetes

Workday

Software Development Engineer III - Site Reliability Engineering
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Pleasanton, CA

• Working alongside the Public Cloud Team supporting the Kubernetes based platform
• Managing overall system health, working with application engineering teams to meet agreed on platform SLOs.
• Coordinating, automating and owning upgrades/patching of both Workday stack and underlying OSS platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Calico)
• Assist with onboarding services to the platform, coordinating with application teams, architects and product managers.

Software Development Engineer III - DevOps and Cloud Orchestration
Nov 2020 – Aug 2021
Pleasanton, CA

• Member of the Cloud Orchestration team, working on Kubernetes based platform running in the AWS AND GCP public cloud
• Designing and developing platform and tools to enhance resiliency and adoption of the Workday solution.
• Support build-out of new environments and regions, automating solutions across teams

Sysdig

Infrastructure Engineer
Dec 2019 – Nov 2020
San Francisco, CA

• Member of Cloud Infra team tasked with maintenance and oversight of all Cloud environments in AWS and IBM Cloud
• Responsible for automation around Kubernetes clusters and underlying VMs, storage, databases, etc
• Lead engineer supporting the company's build and deploy environment engineered around Jenkins
• Assisted all dev teams in company with migrations off freestyle builds to groovy pipeline scripts
• Managed VM and docker based build agents for running Jenkins jobs.

Short Form Music/Video Mobile App Company

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 2019 – Nov 2019
San Francisco, CA

• SRE tasked with oversight of all cloud infrastructure
• Converted existing hand provisioned AWS infra to Infrastructure as Code
• Oversaw transition to full containers and Kubernetes environment from standard VMs
• Brought systems with little or no monitoring to higher levels of visibility with Cloud Provider metrics and OSS tooling
• Scripted common tasks (python) with the goal of increasing availability and decreasing recovery time
• Standardized tooling and infra around accepted open source solutions

Veracode/SourceClear (acquisition)

DevOps Engineer
May 2018 – February 2019
San Francisco, CA

• Transitioned to full time DevOps role split between VeraCode and SourceClear.
• Oversaw all IT integrations from SourceClear side.
• Responsible for VeraCode’s CI/CD platform (GitLab based)
• Helped spearhead introduction of Kubernetes into VeraCode
• Managed SourceClear’s multiple Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades and migrations.

IT Ops Engineer
November 2017 – May 2018
San Francisco, CA

• Supported office of startup software security company.
• Resolved all issues with on site systems.
• Automated onboarding process and led selection of new MDM solution.
• Oversaw company-wide LDAP, 2FA and G-Suite instances.
• Launched cloud ASA to unify VPN infrastructure.
• Supported fully cloud based infrastructure on the AWS, built on Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration.

Sutherland Global Services/Sutherland Labs

IT Business Relationship Manager
February 2016 – November 2017
San Francisco, CA

• Oversaw the build-out of San Francisco Innovation Lab in relation to technology infrastructure.
• Served as liaison between Sutherland’s Digital wing (mainly Sutherland Labs) and the technology teams that make up the larger organization.
• Managed all on site technology needs
• Architected solutions for research sessions on site and remote
• Covered all technology procurement and administered on site IT asset management.
• Traveled internationally to support meetings including those including the highest-level executives within the organization (continuing responsibility from previous role)