# Curt Micol | asenchi

## Details

tooling: docker, git, jenkins, kubernetes, terraform, vault, wireguard, nginx, ubuntu, alpine, freebsd, openbsd, pf, unbound
stateful: postgresql, kafka, redis, rabbitmq
clouds: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud
langs: go, ruby, python, elixir, lua

:: Founder / Contractor

Performed select contract work for a number of companies
Primarily focused on restructuring Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and other infrastructure related work.

:: Staff II SRE

Founded and lead a new infrastructure engineering team focused on solving product platform infrastructure on AWS
Designed and co-wrote a platform provisioning tool called CRISPr
Hired four engineers and one manager
Established a work stream for the team working with others across the company to fulfill infrastructure initiatives

:: Staff SRE

Led effort to establish first EU region of VMware Tanzu Mission Control
Established an incident management system and onboarded approximately 100 engineers
Assisted with expanding SRE team to 12
Technical Lead for Site Reliability Engineering, VMware Tanzu
Chief architect for new global infrastructure design for VMware Tanzu Mission Control SaaS application
Led effort to onboard 100 engineers to Kubernetes based development environment
Led effort to establish a production infrastructure in four months

:: Senior SRE

As first SRE in the company I spent time developing patterns for managing infrastructure, account management, and operational processes
Developed "defensive terraform" pattern that reduced the risk of change management for infrastructure across team managed infrastructure

:: Staff Infra Engineer

Developed the "Incident Complexity Framework", a solution for managing incidents across a multi-faceted SaaS product
Trained multiple teams in incident management, post-incident reviews, and curated > 400 incidents during my tenure
Designed and built a new architecture for managing PostgreSQL, improving the company's ability to upgrade and track vulnerabilities while also improving reliability across all services
Developed an updated method for managing RabbitMQ to improve the reliability and recovery time during incidents

:: Operations Engineer

Implemented structured logging patterns
Built and managed Splunk clusters which ingested 2TB of logs daily
Introduce incident management patterns including incident commander and incident tracking

:: Operations Engineer

Developed a monitoring tool to replenish runtime capacity based on instance status and integration testing
Developed the new free tier shared PostgreSQL provisioner called Yobuko
Co-developed an incident management system based on the national ICS including running game day simulations and engineer training

:: Operations Engineer

:: Senior SysRes Engineer

Created "System Restore" team for managing failed hardware scenarios in the datacenter
Lone developer and maintainer of VPS product space