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 and fostering growth in engineering teams. He has a strength for communicating across domains which facilitates collaboration.

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

phillip@phillipjf.com

Curriculum Vitae

Experience

10/2023 - Present

Principal Engineer, Infrastructure & Architecture

Bellese, Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR), CMS

Federal Contractor for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

  • Provide technical leadership and oversight for multiple product-aligned engineering teams.
  • Ensure nearly 70 Engineering and QA staff are able to grow and execute their skills effectively.
  • Collaborate with product leadership to ensure architecture and engineering roadmaps are integrated.
  • Ensure stability and availability of the platform for nearly 10,000 facilities to submit over 40M files per year.
  • Coordinate with federal stakeholders to gather requirements and requests to populate backlogs
  • Establish observability requirements that improve visibility into system status to ensure uptime and accuracy.
  • Ensure application SLAs/SLOs are met and maintained.
  • Work closely with Security Officials to ensure compliance and participate in Federal security reviews.
  • Develop engineering and architecture roadmaps for existing work and new work proposals.

07/2022 - 09/2023

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Traeger Pellet Grills

  • Reported to the VP of IT Infrastructure & Architecture
  • 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)

  • Reported to the Sr. Director of Cloud Adoption
  • 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

Federal Contractor for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (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