CV – Andrew Gortmaker

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Professional Summary

Experienced Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of expertise in AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD. Proven track record in optimizing architecture, improving security, and automating deployments, resulting in cost savings and productivity increases. Successfully standardized app development processes, saving time and enhancing reliability.

Work Experience

Bow River Solutions

Cloud Engineer 01/2024 - Present

• Optimized the architecture and design for Databricks data lake project using Terraform, resulting in a 15% reduction in infrastructure costs.
• Improved CI/CD pipeline for terraform based projects, increasing the testing coverage by 50% and reducing developer overhead.
• Implemented Databricks terraform modules resulting in significantly faster creation of federated data sources, streamlining data access and increasing productivity.
• Interfacing with clients to develop architecture and plan future products.

Shaw Communications

Cloud Developer 08/2016 - 06/2023

• Standardized app development process, saving development time with a framework for creating internal apps with react frontend, Appsync (GraphQL), and DynamoDB.
• Utilized AWS CDK for typescript to streamline infrastructure management and automation, resulting in an increase in reliability and stability for the Freedom Mobile retail portal.
• Strengthened cloud security by aggregating multiple security tools, leading to a 75% decrease in security vulnerabilities and fortifying the overall security posture.

Charter Communications

Principal Engineer I / System Engineer 10/2013 - 08/2016

• Re-architecting microservices based on AWS limits and budget constraints.
• Enhanced system performance by successfully migrating VMWare based infrastructure to AWS, resulting in 25% increase in system uptime.
• Deployed and automated applications to a microservices platform totaling over 1500 servers.
• Automated the deployment of cluster of Tomcat servers using Netflix open source tooling.
• Defining new policy and processes for production deployments and working with Software engineering to improve validation.

Comcast Cable Corporation

Engineer II / Engineer I / Network Analyst 10/2006 - 10/2013

• Implemented DHCP application transition from Sun/Solaris systems to Dell/Red Hat systems for over 50 server clusters across a nationwide footprint (18.5 million subscribers).
• Streamlined application installs and upgrades, resulting in a reduction in customer downtime and improved service reliability.
• Investigated and escalated server issues through use of multiple monitoring tools such as Nagios and Xymon.
• Provided support and escalation for DNS, DHCP, Packetcable, and DOCSIS provisioning issues.
• Monitored and resolved network issues and completed routine CMTS activities.

TGQE LLC

Co-founder 03/2007 - 10/2011

• Oversaw development of several organizational applications for the Blackberry platform.
• Orchestrated a sale of the company in 2011 for a profitable exit.

Education

• Bachelor of Electronics Engineering, DeVry University, Denver, CO

Skills

• Cloud/Infra: AWS, AWS CDK, AWS Appsync, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes (k8s), EKS, Microservices
• Data: DataBricks, GraphQL, MongoDB, CI/CD
• Systems: Architecture and Design, Automation, Security, Network Monitoring, Packetcable