--- apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: robert-lestak annotations: title: Senior Cloud Architect email: robert@lestak.sh website: https://lestak.sh bio: nextgen architect. open source enthusiast. cloud agnostic first. focus on microservice architecture, service mesh, and cloud-native solutions. automate everything. data: whoami.yaml: | --- basics: name: Robert Lestak label: Senior Cloud Architect email: robert@lestak.sh website: https://lestak.sh summary: nextgen architect. open source enthusiast. cloud agnostic first. focus on microservice architecture, service mesh, and cloud-native solutions. automate everything. location: city: Los Angeles region: California countryCode: US profiles: - network: GitHub username: robertlestak url: https://github.com/robertlestak - network: LinkedIn username: Robert Lestak url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlestak work: - company: Universal Music Group position: Senior Cloud Architect - Global Tech website: https://www.universalmusic.com startDate: '2021-03-15' endDate: current summary: Designing and delivering the next generation of digital experiences for a global audience. Leading a global engineering team utilizing the latest in cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh, serverless, edge computing, and distributed systems to consistently deliver quality experiences artists and fans have come to expect. Working at the intersection of music and tech to provide industry-proven insight and experience to guide the vision and design for artist, brand, and consumer solutions. - company: Universal Music Group position: Lead DevOps Engineer website: https://www.universalmusic.com startDate: '2018-06-25' endDate: '2021-03-15' summary: Managing the migration from legacy on-prem systems to containerized, high-availability, and auto-scaling cloud infrastructure while at the same time ensuring cross-compatibility and interoperability of all systems. Focusing on containerization, network security, and infrastructure modernization to bridge the gap between legacy systems and cloud-native infrastructure, while increasing application efficiency, fault tolerance, and reducing costs. Working closely with development and operations teams around the world and using a wide array of technologies such as Terraform, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Golang, and Node, I focus on automating infrastructure deployments and build / test systems to ensure a seamless CI/CD process. Working in both Linux and Windows environments and with systems from Apache to Zuul and Bash to Splunk, I ensure that all applications and systems are properly built, deployed, monitored, and updated seamlessly. - company: Nitro Circus position: DevOps Engineer website: http://nitrocircus.com startDate: '2017-10-01' endDate: '2018-06-05' summary: Developed, deployed, and manage cloud architecture for internal business administration services. Through the use of a custom application built on top of Moby / Docker, each team can deploy specifically configured databases for a wide range of internal needs, with all networking being automatically configured for secure access from within the company VPN. Teams can push specified tables and / or entire databases to a central application which consolidates the data and compiles an auditable report, which is then sent to the appropriate party specified by each team. With over two dozen interconnected applications (not counting the team-deployed databases) communicating across multiple host machines, this system utilizes an automated logging and monitoring framework and AWS Auto Scaling host machines to ensure continual uptime with increased demand. - company: AT&T position: DevOps Engineer website: https://www.att.com startDate: '2016-12-01' endDate: '2016-12-30' summary: Developed internal application to manage inter-department project management. Prior to this system, teams would independently work on project aspects and either use Dropbox or email to share their changes, with no version control or centralized project management. As a 'traditional' VCS was not desired, but the Dropbox workflow inadequate, an application was developed which enabled users to work on unique local versions of the project and 'sync' their changes to a central system which maintained all versions in history for the project manager's review. - company: Samsung position: DevOps Engineer website: https://www.samsung.com startDate: '2016-11-01' endDate: '2018-06-05' summary: Developed internal applications to manage corporate events; manage infrastructure and continuous integration. Implemented a scalable and containerized infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes, with a Jenkins server which compiled and built the application, ran a set of unit tests, and automatically pushed updates to the firewalled production server. By forcing all commits to be built and fully tested before being made live, I was able to bring the weekly bug reports down from approximately 5 to effectively 0, as every change must compile and pass all unit tests before going live. Host servers are now deployed using a unified version controlled deployment script, and through Kubernetes, application instances are automatically scaled in response to resource utilization. - company: DirecTV Now position: Developer / Database Administrator website: https://www.directvnow.com startDate: '2016-09-16' endDate: '2018-06-05' summary: Developed DirecTV Now landing page; built and administered core infrastructure to handle upwards of 10,000 concurrent entries. With the launch of the new streaming DirecTVNow service, a platform was required to handle the large number of entries on launch day. By utilizing a cloud database separate from the server hosting the web application, we were able to ensure that the thousands of concurrent user on the server and entries to the database did not lead to any downtime nor affected data consistency through the entire marketing drive. Upon completion of the marketing drive, a custom driver was built to transfer this data to the company's internal CRM. education: - institution: California State University, Channel Islands studyType: Bachelor startDate: '2010-08-01' endDate: '2014-05-16' gpa: '3.8' awards: - title: Magna Cum Laude date: '2014-05-16' - title: Mortarboard National Honor Society date: '2014-01-01' - title: National Political Science Honor Society date: '2014-01-01' - title: Program Honors date: '2014-05-16' skills: - name: Airflow - name: AWS - name: Bash - name: Buildkit - name: CoreDNS - name: Docker - name: DNS - name: Etcd - name: Ethereum - name: GCP - name: git - name: GitHub - name: Golang - name: Grafana - name: HashiCorp Vault - name: IMAP - name: Istio - name: Kubernetes - name: Linux - name: Nginx - name: NodeJS - name: OAuth2/OIDC - name: Prometheus - name: Redis - name: Service Mesh - name: SMTP - name: TCP/IP - name: TLS/PKI - name: Unix - name: Vim languages: - name: English level: Native speaker - name: Spanish level: University / conversational interests: - name: Automation - name: Blockchain & Decentralized Applications - name: Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure - name: Containerization & Container Native Design - name: Continuous Integration & Deployment - name: Digital Experiences / Events & Global Scale - name: Distributed Systems, Edge Computing, & Global Networking - name: Legacy Systems Integration & Refactoring - name: Monitoring, Observability, & Tracing - name: Microservice & Service-Oriented Architecture - name: Network Security - name: Next-Gen Identity & Zero-Trust - name: Platform Design & Engineering - name: Scraping, Data Acquisition, & Data Pipelining - name: Scalability & High Availability - name: Service Mesh & Distributed Services - name: Systems & Interface Design