Israel Farfan

• Provi is the fastest growing B2B ecommerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry. Active in 35 states, Provi’s robust, online marketplace improves communication and efficiency for retailers, distributors and suppliers. As of 2022, 10 percent of licensed retailers in the U.S. are on the marketplace.
• Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Provi has received a total of $125 million in funding and is valued at $750 million. The company received Built In Chicago’s Best Places to Work recognition in 2021.

• AWS
• Ansible
• Atlantis
• Azure Cloud
• Bash
• Debian
• DigitalOcean
• Docker
• Goss
• Helm
• Heroku
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Packer
• Postgres
• Python
• Terraform
• Ubuntu

• Build automated, GitOps-driven framework for managing new and legacy AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Atlantis, Gitlab & CI/CD pipelines
• Run automated linting, security scanning, best-practices analysis on infrastructure code thru automated CI/CD pipelines
• Build automated launching + testing framework for management of AWS server images using Packer, Bash, aws-cli & CI/CD pipelines
• Automate, optimize and strengthen complex legacy application deployments via custom scripting
• Provide cloud infrastructure support, troubleshooting and incident resolution / Provide day-to-day tech support to developers and QA teams

• Atlantis
• AWS
• Ansible
• Bash
• Docker
• Gitlab
• Goss
• MySQL
• Packer
• Postgres
• Python
• Terraform
• Ubuntu

• Containerize and migrate legacy applications to Kubernetes
• Capture in Terraform code existing, legacy cloud infrastructure
• Build, maintain, support and sunset multi-region cloud infrastructure to support company’s international initiatives
• Build and refine CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Provide cloud infrastructure support, troubleshooting and incident resolution
• Provide day-to-day tech support to engineering and data-science teams

• AWS
• Bash
• Docker
• Github Actions
• Helm
• JupyterHub
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• Postgres
• Python
• RabbitMQ
• Snowflake
• Terraform
• Travis CI

• Complete infrastructure lifecycle ownership: analysis, architecture, implementation, buildout, daily maintenance & support, migration & sunsetting
• Build automation to support business needs: CI/CD pipelines, security hardening, performance tuning, monitoring/alerting, observability, centralized logging
• Provide all across tech support to developers, to systems/stacks & during sales calls
• Consulting work for startups across the USA and Canada

• Atlantis
• AWS
• Ansible
• Bash
• Docker
• ELK
• Gitlab
• Goss
• Icinga
• Jenkins
• Packer
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform
• Terragrunt
• Ubuntu

• Build infrastructure (AWS + data-center) to support engineering + IT departments across countries & time zones (Linux + Windows)
• Provide developers + IT reps support across multiple applications lifespans: idea, exploration, inception, development, day-to-day, tuning, growth, end-of-life
• Provide cloud infrastructure support: performance tuning, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, triages
• On-going cloud cost analysis to reduce expenditures

• AWS
• Bash
• CentOS
• Gitlab
• Jenkins
• Linux
• MS-SQL Server
• Nagios
• Pagerduty
• Postgres
• Powershell
• Puppet
• Windows Server

• Lead + coach team of Devs & Sysops from a reactive, short-term mindset to a pro-active, long term vision of the entire technology stack
• Optimize developer productivity with custom-built workstation setup via automated creation of portable dev environments/VMs
• Begin re-architecting of CI/CD pipelines & workflows
• Begin re-architectural work splitting monolythic CMS codebase into “publication” & “authoring” engines
• Evangelize organization on the benefits of the Cloud for future-proofing company’s infrastructure & jump-started migration away from physical hardware
• Architect + manage the implementation of extensive monitoring to ensure business uptime & continuity
• Architect + manage the implementation of extensive metrics/utilization dashboards for resource optimization + capacity planning + cost reduction

Achievements:

• Reduce overall infrastructure costs by 20% within first 3 months

• AWS
• Ansible
• Bash
• Docker
• ELK
• Gearman
• Graphite
• Icinga
• Jenkins
• MySQL
• PHP
• Packer
• Pagerduty
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Solr
• Travis CI
• Ubuntu

• Mentor, train & manage a team of 3 Ops engineers + 1 project manager, overseeing a 24/7 web environment of 400+ AWS nodes
• Introduce Collectd/Graphite for capacity planning & to identify savings of up to 40% of yearly costs.
• Restructure hosted JIRA/Confluence solution
• Architect, plan & execute restructuring of AWS infrastructure for reliability, scalability, cost savings & overall efficiency gains

• AWS
• Bash
• Graphite
• Icinga
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• Logstash
• MySQL
• PHP
• Pagerduty
• Ubuntu

• Architect website infrastructure of 60+ cloud nodes using a combination of AWS tooling + AWS offerings/services
• Build automatic, zero-touch server configuration management & orchestration
• Build comprehensive monitoring, extensive metrics dashboards & centralized logging dashboards to maximize developer + operations insights, to expedite root-cause analysis during performance bottlenecks
• Build secure Production, QA, Development environments; introduced automated infrastructure deployments; configured automated error reporting for developer + operations personnel
• IT: Introduce ITIL best-practices (helpdesk, asset / change / capacity / configuration management)
• IT: Expand infrastructure (install enterprise wireless, redundant ISPs for double bandwidth, upgrade network equipment, coordinate office cabling install)
• IT: Enforce security (encrypt laptops, strong password policies, office & cloud VPNs, offsite backups)

Achievements:

• Reduce recurring hosting costs by close to 50% by drastically terminating vendors, right-sizing contracts to true usage/capacity & purchasing AWS Reserved Instances for EC2 + RDS
• IT: Reduce hardware + software costs by 30%; draft + enforce quarterly IT budgets

• AWS
• Ansible
• Bash
• Graphite
• Icinga
• Jenkins
• Kibana
• Logstash
• MySQL
• Pagerduty
• Python
• Solr
• Tomcat
• Ubuntu

• Implement + administer robust & scalable mission-critical systems within the AWS framework across multiple geographical zones
• Build complex site alerting system involving 3rd party vendors & internal solutions to ensure 99.9% platform uptime
• Build + manage extensive monitoring & analysis dashboards that report on extensive operational metrics of platform’s health for preventive & ad-hoc maintenance
• Provide reports on operational metrics related to monitoring, utilization, & backups
• Build sustainable solutions to automatically scale when traffic increases to minimize downtime when outages occur
• Oversee day to day operations of a 24/7 high traffic web environment of 200+ AWS nodes

Achievements:

• Introduce continuous monitoring and increase site uptime to 99.99%

• AWS
• Bash
• CentOS
• Icinga
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• PHP
• Pagerduty
• Python
• Ubuntu

• Architect + technical team lead with full ownership of complete product life cycle for company’s web properties (US & International)
• Provision, deploy, maintain & support 3rd party-developed websites (Flash, Facebook Apps, LAMP, ASP.Net) on virtual, cloud-hosted & physical company-hosted servers
• First point of contact for organization’s web software/hardware maintenance + support
• Manage international web portfolio of 900+ domains
• Set + communicate architectural direction (software & hardware) to business + technical parties across organization for all web initiatives
• Company-wide enforcer + implementer of PCI compliance, at technology level (data encryption, secure transmission protocols, integration with monitoring & intrusion-detection systems) & at business level (i.e., eliminating paper-trails, re-designing business processes to prevent sensitive-data leaks, educate users to think “security” first)
• Support relationships with technology vendors in order to best evaluate + deploy leading edge technologies where appropriate
• Efficient, effective technical lead managing a team of 12 programmers + designers
• Work + manage 3rd party agencies + programmers in US, UK, China, India & Uruguay

Achievements:

• etopps.com completed in-house, on time, with full custom source code, at 1/3 of the cost of a previous, failed attempt by 3rd-party integrator
• Orchestrated internal multi-department project to make organization PCI compliant for the first time

• ASP
• ASP.Net
• AWS
• Bash
• C#
• Linux
• MS-SQL Server
• Nagios
• PHP
• Redhat
• Ubuntu
• VB.Net
• Visual Basic
• Windows 2000
• Windows 2008

Web developer + network administrator at various companies in South Florida & Seattle.

• ASP
• DBase
• Novell
• Visual Basic
• Visual FoxPro
• WindowsNT