Bil K

Senior DevOps Engineer

Barq Dev • Full-time

Oct 2024 - Present • 1 yr 10 mos

Design and run production cloud infrastructure for client applications, covering deployment, automation, and reliability. • Architect and deploy production workloads on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch), with security groups and IAM policies scoped to least privilege. • Build CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and Jenkins that take code from commit to production automatically, with automated testing and rollback. • Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate them on Kubernetes, including health checks, autoscaling, and zero-downtime rolling deploys. • Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform so environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and consistent across dev/staging/prod. • Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting so issues are caught before users report them. • Handle Linux server administration, Nginx configuration, SSL, and environment hardening. Core tools: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Linux, Nginx, Git.

AI Engineer

DigiRoots

May 2020 - Oct 2024 • 4 yrs 5 mos

Built AI-powered automation systems and internal tooling that replaced manual, repetitive business processes. • Designed and shipped AI automation workflows that handled recurring tasks, cutting manual processing time for the operations team. • Developed conversational AI chatbots for [customer support / lead capture / internal helpdesk], integrating them with [CRM / database / ticketing system]. • Built Python services and API integrations connecting third-party tools into a single automated pipeline, removing hand-offs between systems. • Worked directly with non-technical stakeholders to scope requirements, translate them into working automations, and iterate based on feedback. • Owned features end to end: requirements, build, testing, deployment, and post-launch support. Core tools: Python, OpenAI / LLM APIs, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, Git.