Taylor Curtis

Professional Experience

Vivun

Site Reliability Engineer ・ Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 ・ Remote, CA

  • Designed, deployed, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Harness.io and CircleCI, streamlining the software development lifecycle and improving efficiency.
  • Managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes (Helm Charts), optimizing deployments and ensuring scalability across multiple environments.
  • Acted as embedded SRE for a fast-paced SaaS product team, responsible for:
    • Architecting scalable AWS infrastructure to meet evolving product and performance needs.
    • Reducing developer downtime and accelerating feature delivery by optimizing build and deployment processes.
    • Creating and managing ephemeral environments for seamless development, testing, and scaling.
  • Led cloud resource rightsizing efforts, achieving 50% cost savings on EKS and 30% savings on RDS monthly.
  • Developed custom tooling to migrate secrets from Enterprise HashiCorp Vault to Open Source Vault, delivering $10k in annual licensing and support savings.
  • Enhanced security and compliance by automating infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform, ensuring consistent security policies across all environments.

Procore Technologies

Site Reliability Engineer ・ Oct 2021 – July 2022 ・ Remote, CA

Promoted from Information Systems Engineer to Site Reliability Engineer after demonstrating excellence in managing Okta identity systems, optimizing AWS infrastructure, and building innovative automation.

  • Core contributor to the Site Reliability Cloud Provisioning team, responsible for designing and supporting infrastructure pipelines using Terraform Cloud.
  • Participated in Site Reliability On-Call Rotation, mitigating security incidents, resolving product outages, and addressing deployment failures to ensure service reliability.
  • Created a self-service AWS IAM role workflow, reducing manual intervention and approval delays by streamlining role requests with automated security approvals.
  • Refactored Terraform modules to enhance simplicity, update provider integrations, and improve infrastructure scalability and maintainability.

Information Systems Engineer ・ July 2017 – Oct 2021 ・ Remote, CA

  • Led the administration and optimization of Okta identity and access management (SSO, MFA), securing user access through automated user lifecycle processes.
  • Architected and managed AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, optimizing resources, and integrating CI/CD pipelines for automated scaling and provisioning.
  • Improved network infrastructure security and performance by managing VPC configurations, security groups, and load balancers.
  • Reduced manual IT operations by 60% through automation, freeing up engineering resources for high-priority projects.
  • Enhanced system visibility and response times by 50% with the deployment of monitoring and alerting tools.

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms & Tools: AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC), Docker, Kubernetes (Helm Charts), Terraform, HashiCorp Vault
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Harness.io, CircleCI, Terraform Cloud, GitLab, Ephemeral Environment Management
  • Infrastructure & Automation: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Automated Provisioning, Resource Rightsizing, AWS IAM Management, Self-Service Infrastructure Workflows
  • Security & Compliance: Okta Identity Management (SSO, MFA), AWS Security & Compliance, Monitoring and Alerting, Incident Management
  • Cost Optimization: Cloud Cost Optimization (EKS, RDS), Resource Analysis
  • Other Tools: Sumologic, Splunk, Apple Device Management

Notable Achievements

  • Delivered 50% cost savings on EKS and 30% on RDS by leading cloud resource rightsizing efforts.
  • $10k in annual savings achieved by migrating secrets management from Enterprise HashiCorp Vault to Open Source Vault.
  • 60% reduction in manual IT operations through automation and scripting, enabling engineering to focus on higher-impact projects.