Resume

Roy Hubbard

Work experience

Software Engineer IV

Remote · 2024 - 2025

Led a large-scale refactor of a Terragrunt-based infrastructure-as-code codebase to align with modern best practices and enable rapid onboarding of new tenants.
Built and standardized a GitLab CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure provisioning, enforcing consistency across environments.
Designed a tagging framework across all Terraform-managed resources for traceability, cost allocation, and lifecycle governance.
Developed an automated DNS management framework with certificate issuance via cert-manager and ExternalDNS.
Managed tenant workload lifecycles through a Flux-based GitOps model with auditable deployment workflows.
Enforced encryption-at-rest and cloud security best practices across all managed resources.

Technical Consultant

Remote · 2021 - Present

Built a pipeline for ingesting network metrics and generating custom Grafana dashboards using Python and the Grafana API.
Developed a social media analysis application delivering curated dashboards to clients: Python, React, Celery, PostgreSQL, deployed on AWS EKS.
Developed a time-based raffle event platform using Python, Flask/SQLAlchemy, and Svelte.
Created a Keycloak-based auth platform for a suite of services, including a Python/Flask proxy layer for seamless cutover of existing applications.
Executed a bare-metal-to-Kubernetes lift and shift covering applications, SCM, and CI/CD.
Built a turnkey Kubernetes monitoring stack (Helm) based on Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus.

DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Remote · 2023

Independently executed a lift and shift of the core business-critical product from ECS to EKS (IaC, CI/CD, and codebase changes), cutting $12k/month per account and shaving an average of 6 minutes off build deployments.
Architected an observability stack on EKS with CDK (TypeScript), Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus, reducing CloudWatch and third-party monitoring costs.
Designed custom tooling in Python and TypeScript to streamline developer workflows.

Software Engineer, Platform Architecture

NYC / Remote · 2017 - 2021

Developed applications and workflows for the platform architecture team in Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, and Go.
Designed an API for lifecycle management of infrastructure resources across AWS, Kafka, GCP, and GitHub, reducing ops burden and boosting org-wide velocity.
Implemented an asset-management pipeline monitoring workstation security metrics using osquery, AWS Athena, Grafana, and Loki.
Built a reporting and alerting platform with Perl (Paws, Catalyst), deployed via Kops to Kubernetes.

DevOps Engineer

NYC / Remote · 2015 - 2017

Designed and implemented automation for over 2,000 physical and cloud servers using Puppet; trained a team of engineers and built a production-mirror local testing system.
Time-series analysis with Graphite and Grafana.

DevOps Engineer

NYC · 2014 - 2015

Built reproducible, automated infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation, Puppet, and Vagrant.
Contributed to the core Rails-based data-modeling product.

Service Transition Engineer

NYC · 2013 - 2014

Broad Linux/Unix systems administration: DNS, email, web services, database administration.
Extended a Nagios-based monitoring platform with pluggable Perl extensions; built an end-to-end testing framework.

Systems Administrator

NYC · 2011 - 2012

Level 2 support for managed hosting: Apache, MySQL, nginx, Varnish, DNS, CDN.
Automated repetitive tasks with Perl and Bash; built CRM report generation tooling.

Systems Administrator

NYC · 2007 - 2011

Operational support, database administration, email administration (Qmail, Postfix), DNS/BIND, datacenter and network administration.