Michael Titus

United States

@acct2

Site Reliability Engineer

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Work Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer - Advisory

    SolarWinds•  January 2020 - Present

    A "first responder" diagnosing and fixing server and other infrastructure problems on a platform that ingests and analyzes large amounts of database performance data. Migrate Golang services from legacy EC2 instances to Kubernetes using Helm. Automate AWS infrastructure resources using Terraform. Configure and maintain various self-hosted MySQL instances. Full-time remote on a mostly-remote engineering team.

  • Senior Site Reliability Engineer

    VividCortex•  July 2018 - December 2019

    VividCortex acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019

  • Senior Systems Architect

    Conversica•  June 2013 - March 2017

    Designed software systems for scalability and failover for a 24/7 SaaS hosted on Amazon Web Services. Automated EC2 server configurations and code deployments using Ansible, Python, Docker, and Node.js. Comprehensive management of MySQL and Aurora instances including data migrations, schema changes, and index and query optimizations. Monitored application and server performance using CloudWatch and Datadog. Reduced AWS costs by adjusting EC2 and RDS instance types and by carefully purchasing reserved instances.

Education

  • UC San Diego

    Computer Science, BS•  September 1992 - August 1996

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