Kareem March

kareemmarch@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/kreempuff
Website: https://kreempuff.dev

Things I use daily: Golang, Typescript, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Bazel

Things I can talk about unprompted: Platform Engineering, Devops, Containers, Infrastructure as Code

Professional Experience

Site Reliability Engineer - Robinhood, New York, NY

Sep 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Chose SLIs and developed SLOs for Kubernetes clusters
  • Analyzed previous production incidents to focus reliability efforts
  • Wrote evaluation criteria and e2e tests for Kubernetes controllers
  • Ran simulations to help teams understand Kubernetes failures

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Warby Parker, New York, NY

May 2018 - Aug 2021

  • Took control of developer operations and tooling
  • Used AWS to mock production environments for development purposes
  • Developed command line tool to manage, provision, and orchestrate custom AWS resources in golang
  • Reduced time to provision development environments from 5 mins to 30 secs
  • Responsible for uptime, metrics, observability, and operations of customer facing services
  • Led post incident analysis of outages and incidents
  • Led the containerization effort for production services
  • Created local development experience for all core services based on containers and Docker compose
  • Designed some core components of EKS (Kubernetes) deployment (DNS, Load balancers, Networking)

Software Engineer - Rackspace, San Antonio, TX

Dec 2015 - Apr 2018

  • Developed a chat UI for automating deployments from Slack from high level descriptions
  • Migrated a legacy Ruby on Rails internal app to Angular (UI) and Python (Backend)
  • Developed internal app to unify over 40 different internal apps
  • Organized team meetings to discuss standards around projects
  • Pair programmed with senior devs on difficult problems
  • Attended group code reviews to understand teammates’ programming process

Certifications

Education History

Hartwick College - Oneonta, NY
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry
Sep 2011 - May 2015

  • Academic Honors earned: Dean’s List (3 semesters)
  • Published paper titled Non-Natural D-Amino Acids to Control Bacterial Virulence in well-known scientific journal

Coder Camps - Oakland, CA
MEAN Stack Developer Certificate
Aug 2011 - Oct 2011

  • Multi-paradigm programming with Javascript (functional, OOP, etc)
  • Engineered single page apps for the web using AngularJS (frontend), Node.js (backend), and MongoDB (NoSQL database)
  • Used Agile methods to simulate real world business scenarios in which MVP version of apps were delivered on schedule