JohnBuhay

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years of experience implementing Information Technology solutions for WeWork and WeightWatchers in the real-estate and healthcare sectors. 8 years of experience operating and deploying diverse workloads on Kubernetes, with a strong focus on Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technologies.


Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Developer Platform

WeWork 2019 - Present

Lead the platform team to migrate developer tools and applications from the roll-your-own clusters to the new version of the platform using AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Reduced the time to deliver a new app from days to minutes by supporting a self service model for developers after building tools that can create and scaffold several different project types while maintaining and promoting best practices for WeWork’s security and compliance requirements.

Site Reliability Engineer / Service Infrastructure

WeWork 2018 - 2019

Developed a self service platform for developers at WeWork to create and manage tools, software and data related workloads on top of a suite of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open source software (OSS). Helped pivot team and role responsibilities to a SRE focused structure, interviewed 50 candidates and helped grow team to 40 people across Tel Aviv, New York City, and San Francisco locations.

DevOps Engineer / DevOps Team

WeWork 2016 - 2018

Hired to accelerate the delivery and adoption of Kubernetes for the applications that were mixed between Heroku and various AWS services. Introduced DevOps culture along with the new technologies that enabled the platform for the growing team of engineers.

DevOps Engineer / Automation Team

WeightWatchers International 2014 - 2016

During the last two and a half years of my tenure, transitioned the company's entire technology stack from a waterfall, two-time a year, scheduled monolith release into a microservice architecture spanning across multiple cloud providers and datacenter while adopting an agile driven release cycle.

Additional Relevant Experience

WeightWatchers International 2007 - 2016

Engineering Lead for Franchise Marketing and Microsite Projects / Engineering Team

2007 - 2011
Responsible for deployment of time sensitive content for the Franchise Marketing and Microsite mobile sites

Software Engineer / Engineering Team

2011 - 2014
Responsible for troubleshooting, implementing and validating hot fixes for production issues

Project Coordinator, eCommerce and CMS Application Lead / Content Operations Team

2007 - 2011
Managed projects involving multiple teams for feature development, marketing campaigns, eCommerce sales, advertising and content maintenance for US and 10 international subscription and non-subscription sites including 3 multi-lingual sites


Education

Fordham University, 2003-2007

B.S. in Computer Science

Professional Development

  • '18 GopherCon Denver
  • '17 - '19 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
  • '16 AnsibleFest NYC

Awards & Certifications

  • '22 Forever Award recipient, WeWork Technology
    WeWork Tech awards employees with an NFT who excel in contribution and make significant impact on teams, projects and product. This is a peer nominated award reviewed and approved by a committee.
  • '14 Certified Scrum Master - SCRUM Alliance
  • '09 Java Programming Certificate - New York University, SCPS

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Skills
  • Reliability engineering
  • Troubleshooting
  • Capacity planning
  • Software development
  • Agile Development & SCRUM