Alex Kokkinos

Chicago, IL – alex@kokkinos.io – 978-302-7368

Executive Summary

Skilled at fostering team collaboration, driving technological vision, and building strategies aligned with organizational goals
Senior DevOps Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, and System Administration
Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer with a background in cloud infrastructure automation in SaaS environments

Certara - May 2023 to Present

Architected online proxy fleet architecture leveraging AWS Global Accelerator delivering regionally optimized experiences to Certara global customers across all business units
Collaborated with a cross-functional team to build product infrastructure platform redesign, paving the way for potential seven-figure cost savings

StrongDM - September 2022 to March 2023 (RIF)

Onboarded rapidly, engaged with prospective customers leading the technical discovery phase and product demonstrations in 2 months.
Led formal Proof of Value (POV) engagements for prospective customers including a Fortune 500 company.
Mentored the Solutions Engineering team on technologies in the StrongDM ecosystem, including Terraform and AWS.
Completed Force Management training, applied MEDDPICC methodology to prospect engagements

ActiveCampaign - November 2018 to September 2021 (Senior, August 2021)

Architected and maintained SaaS AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Chef, and other frameworks and tools
Collaborated as a member of a cross-functional team evaluating APM and observibility solutions, aiding deployment and instrumentation.
Planned and implemented community forum migration, collaborating with Marketing and Site teams.
Architected CI pipelined infrastructure in GitLab, reducing drift and change risk, adding visibility to developers
Created monitors and alerts within Datadog, improving insight into reliability

AmTrust Financial - September 2017 to August 2018

Developed Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, now Azure DevOps) extensions to improve the automated build and release pipeline
VSTS Extensions built with nodejs, JavaScript, PowerShell, and unit tested with Pester, mocha/chai/sinon
Created Ansible playbooks and custom modules, generating VSTS Build Nodes from code
Provided proof-of-concepts, training, for developers automating their build and release pipeline

Aver Inc. - August 2016 to August 2017

Leveraged Terraform to build modular AWS infrastructure
Completed JIRA Software migration from Cloud to Server
Deployed Tableau servers in Collaboration with Analytics team and consulting SME
Trained all new employees on Mac usage, company technology, account setup, and related topics

Operating Systems: Linux (Amazon Linux, CentOS, RedHat RHEL, Ubuntu, Flatcar), macOS, Windows. Command line proficient: bash, fish, PowerShell, cmd
Languages: bash, sh, PowerShell, Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript, JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, PHP, SQL, Markdown
Tools and Frameworks: REST APIs, New Relic, Datadog, Docker, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Node.js, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, Gitlab, Netlify, Cloudflare
Concepts: Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, Scrum Methodology, Kanban, Agile Methodology, Monitoring and Alerting, Observability, SLAs, SLOs, SLIs
SQL/Data: Querying, Troubleshooting: Redis, Memcached, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite
Amazon Web Services (AWS): EC2 (Autoscaling Groups, ELB/ALB, EC2 Instances, Security Groups, etc), S3, Route53, EFS, ECS, ElastiCache, Aurora RDS, VPC and networking, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CodeDeploy, Certificate Manager, IAM, SQS, SES

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Graduate Certificate, Foundations of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2021