Phillip Ferentinos

Phillip Ferentinos is a Solutions Architect based in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Industrial Design (2014) and a B.S. in Computer Science (2015). Phillip has been working in DevOps/SRE/Architect roles on SAFe/Agile teams since 2016 with a focus on building cloud-ready application architectures.

His familiar tech stack includes:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS): ECS (Fargate), Lambda, EC2 (ASG, ELB, networking), RDS (Aurora), S3, and more
  • Git and hosted git tools (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket)
  • CI/CD tools including Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab CI Atlassian Bamboo
  • Package Management in Artifactory and Nexus
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Cloudformation
  • Configuration as Code (CaC) with Ansible and Chef
  • Containerization using Docker/Podman
  • Project management tools such as Jira and Trello

phillip@phillipjf.com

Curriculum Vitae

Experience

10/2023 - Present

Principal Engineer

Bellese, Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR), CMS

    07/2022 - 09/2023

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Traeger Pellet Grills

    • Accountable for service reliability and incident management
    • Establish and maintain patterns for deploying applications through Gitlab CI/CD
    • Develop and propose application architecture designs with Lucidchart and Confluence
    • Implement infrastructure patterns with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Serverless Framework)
    • Build monitoring and alerting for business-critical applications and infrastructure with Cloudwatch and New Relic
    • Intake project requirements from business and application teams

    03/2022 - 06/2022

    Senior Cloud Automation Engineer

    Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)

    • Lead technical cloud finance evaluation
    • Identify and optimize cloud solutions to reduce costs
    • Build automation for scaling back environments when not in use

    03/2020 - 02/2022

    Technical Architect, Lead

    Bellese, Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR), CMS

    • Design and coordinate application architectures across multiple development teams
    • Create and maintain application architecture diagrams and documentation
    • Develop extensive Jenkins Shared Library to enforce standard CI/CD pipeline and minimize code duplication
    • Contribute best-practices documentation and implement enforcement through CI/CD tooling
    • Coordinate with business and customers to document system requirements
    • Build scalable and highly available application architectures using configuration as code with Terraform
    • Build catalog of Terraform modules to implement best practice and business logic for AWS resources
    • Lead team of DevOps Engineers
    • Perform continuous security reviews and provide system security documentation

    03/2018 - 03/2020

    Technical Architect III

    BBVA USA

    • Develop and implement an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Model for AWS
    • Build scalable and highly available application architectures using configuration as code with Terraform
    • Build catalog of Terraform modules to implement best practice and business logic for AWS resources
    • Develop and deploy security hardened, standardized AMIs using Packer and Ansible
    • Build and maintain DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Artifactory, Crowd, Terraform Enterprise)
    • Create extensive catalog of documentation surrounding EA Model best practices and principles
    • Design and build custom toolset to support asset management and automation
    • Develop and implement strategy to migrate non-compliant AWS infrastructure to EA Model
    • Promote employee learning and engagement through internal training initiative (Ninja Project)
    • Participate in community partnership Hackathon projects (2018-1st Place, 2019-2nd Place)

    01/2016 - 03/2018

    DevOps Automation Engineer

    Equifax

    • Develop and maintain Django and Javascript web front-end for users to request infrastructure builds
    • Build and maintain Python client libraries to support various service APIs
    • Document application and infrastructure design
    • Integrate with datacenter infrastructure and tools APIs to automate provisioning of resources (F5 BigIP, Infoblox, VMM, Venafi, etc.)
    • Develop workflows using asynchronous orchestration tools (Airflow, Celery, RabbitMQ)
    • Build Chef cookbooks and recipes to standardize server configuration
    • Automate application deployments through Chef and Jenkins
    • Plan and organize an annual student Hackathon with Auburn University
    • Work with remote teams and team members to complete tasks

    2012 - 2015

    IT Assistant

    Auburn University SIGD

    • Configure and provision department computer systems
    • Diagnose and resolve hardware, networking, and computer issues
    • Provide support and resolve customer technology issues and questions

    Education

    Fall 2015

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

    Auburn University

    Spring 2014

    Bachelor of Industrial Design

    Auburn University

    Certification

    2019

    Solutions Architect - Associate

    Amazon Web Services