Summary
I am a multidisciplinary enterprise IT engineer with over 10+ years of professional hands on software development, engineering, architecture, and operations experience.
My passions include creating web services that are scalable, repeatable, reliable and cost efficient on the AWS platform. The leadership principle I embody most is Bias for Action. I absolutely love diving deep into technical problems and coming up with reliable solutions to solve real business problems. I have a proven track record of enabling enterprises during large scale, business critical migrations into the AWS cloud as well as driving features on various AWS service team roadmaps.
Skills & Proficiencies
Productive -
AWS, Python, Kubernetes, Linux, IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation), JS/TypeScript, SQL,
Ruby, Docker, Observability Tooling (Prometheus, Grafana), CI/CD Systems
Education
Experience
- Kubernetes (migrated largest workload by number of resources and revenue from ECS Fargate to EKS with 0% service downtime)
- Cost Optimization in the Cloud with services such as AWS, Datadog and GCP (assisted in the reduction of Autify's AWS infrastructure bill by ~50% within a year of employment)
- Ruby on Rails, Python and Typescript development
- CI/CD management/development
- Provide architectural and practical guidance to cloud engineering and software development teams to improve resiliency, efficiency, performance, and costs
- Assist enterprise customers in the formulation and improvement of overall workload observability posture and reporting on service level objectives for a given application's services
- Work with business and product owners to establish key performance indicators for workloads migrated into AWS
- Assist customers in capacity planning and management – create, use, maintain a capacity model for AWS hosting, based on E2E user flow profiles
- Enable enterprise cloud operations teams with resolving support cases, developing and running Python scripts, and troubleshooting services in AWS
- Responsibilities include writing internal tools to automate existing business processes as well as to support JRE software developers and testers
- Performed work on all levels of the software stack including database development/design (MySQL5), server-side programming (Laravel MVC using PHP7), front end (Javascript, CSS3, HTML5) and environment configuration (Apache2, Nginx)
- Established several CI/CD pipelines to achieve continuous deployment with Atlassian's Bamboo based off Git pull requests on Atlassian's Bitbucket server
- Monitoring and diagnosis of systems for optimal performance and automating responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
- Queuing and data-pipeline solutions (RabbitMQ, pub/sub, SQS)
- Obtained a United States Security Clearance
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux SME (Subject Matter Expert) who developed, integrated and deployed heterogeneous C4ISR software environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows Server) for Japanese and Saudi Arabian programs
- Performed overseas system integration activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kickstart, Windows Deployment Services, VMware vSphere orchestration, Bash, PowerShell and Ruby scripts
- Saw features all the way through the software development life cycle while adhering to software engineering best practices which include, but are not limited to, leveraging software version control, peer review, agile methodologies (scrum) and other software engineering processes
- Earned an achievement award for leading a SLUC (System Level Use Case) and completing it more than 200 hours under budget
- Provided support in the Service Center including desktop support, creating/updating SOPs, improving SharePoint, OS deployments, hardware maintenance/upgrades/refreshes, escalating issues and project go-lives
- Created solutions for performance management, disaster recovery, monitoring and access management
- Responsibilities included complete support for desktops, laptops, printers, email, scan guns, telecom equipment, servers, network equipment, DVR's, cameras, mobile phones, cabling and software deployments
- Improved security and performance of infrastructure by working with other teams by joining the infrastructure team and performing SysAdmin related tasks including server health checks, trending, server installs/upgrades/decommissions
- Assisted in the daily operations of the Information Systems department working both independently and in cohesive teams
- Took on several large projects including the installation of roughly 30 wireless access points, hard wiring a newly constructed building with category 6 cables, and the installation of server hardware and software
- Provided an additional communication channel between the IS manager and other department staff working closely with the CIO
Publications
Projects
Stephen Krawczyk's Biographical Website (AWS TypeScript CDK)
I built out a biographical website for my Grandpa's 100th birthday. It was originally deployed back in 2019 with Laravel (PHP 7) onto Heroku. I have recently repackaged it to reliably deploy on AWS using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
The site now costs cents a month to run as it is hosted entirely serverless leveraging AWS free tier and is replicated worldwide via CloudFront's globally distributed edge networks. The contact form logic takes advantaged of Lambda&Edge providing serverless business logic to send contact notifications to an email address via SNS.
StephenKrawczyk.com
I built out a biographical website for my Grandpa's 100th birthday. It was originally deployed back in 2019 with Laravel (PHP 7) onto Heroku. I have recently repackaged it to reliably deploy on AWS using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
The site now costs cents a month to run as it is hosted entirely serverless leveraging AWS free tier and is replicated worldwide via CloudFront's globally distributed edge networks. The contact form logic takes advantaged of Lambda&Edge providing serverless business logic to send contact notifications to an email address via SNS.
StephenKrawczyk.com
Matt Hopkins Resume (AWS TypeScript CDK)
I've also built out this resume to deploy on CloudFront using the AWS CDK much like sk-site-s3-cdk. The site is hosted entirely serverless leveraging AWS free tier and is replicated worldwide via CloudFront's globally distributed edge networks.
HopkinsResu.me
I've also built out this resume to deploy on CloudFront using the AWS CDK much like sk-site-s3-cdk. The site is hosted entirely serverless leveraging AWS free tier and is replicated worldwide via CloudFront's globally distributed edge networks.
HopkinsResu.me