Greg Holthaus
Product Management
Texas, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Greg Holthaus's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Greg also has skills associated with System Developers and Analysts (Information and Communication Technology). Greg Holthaus has 17 years of work experience, with 8 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
PLATFORM ENGINEERING MANAGER
Lightning Step Technologies
February 2023 - November 2023
- I assumed the role of the inaugural Platform Engineer, where my responsibilities included transitioning EC2 farms to EKS clusters to reduce overall costs and ease development/release cycles. Maintained source control repositories using Git or SVN version control systems for tracking changes over time. Built automated CI/CD pipelines leveraging Gitlab, EKS, and ECS. Resolved production issues with an emphasis on root cause analysis to identify long-term solutions rather than quick fixes. Integrated third-party services into existing systems while ensuring scalability and security compliance. . OWNER, Houston, TX
Lemon Logic Consulting
March 2021 - February 2023
- Obtained various short-term contracts to assist clients in primarily migrations to AWS Gov from consumer AWS and physical servers. Designed solutions that adhere to industry standards (HIPPA, FedRAMP, etc.) while meeting customer business requirements. Identified areas of improvement within the organization's IT Infrastructure and proposed cost effective solutions. Created custom tools for automating operational tasks, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency. Migrated legacy applications from on-premise data centers into public cloud platforms. Deployed container-based applications on Kubernetes clusters using Helm charts and YAML files. Developed scripts using Bash, Python, Powershell to automate routine tasks and reduce manual efforts.
SYSTEMS ENGINEER II
Honeywell International, Inc
July 2019 - August 2020
- I joined the origin company (Rebellion Photonics) as their first Platform Engineer to expand their semi-automatic CI/CD pipelines and build an AWS-backed environment for a new company pilot project for high-priority clients in the oil/gas industry (Shell/Cheveron/BP). Docker - Containerized front-end (NodeJS) to simplify continuous integration/deployment Prometheus + Graphana - Introduced monitoring solution to provide insight into performance metrics Gitlab - Unification of all parts of the platform to simplify management of development, staging, and production environments. Ansible / PXE - Automation of OS installation/configuration for physical hardware & servers. Modernization - Migrated platform from Ubuntu 14.04 to 20.04 to increase stability and security.
SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER
OptimisCorp, Inc
June 2018 - November 2018
- I joined OptimisCorp as a contracted Platform Engineer to repair numerous infrastructure problems and to prepare for containerization and migration to EKS clusters to reduce substantial technology costs. A majority of my contracted time was utilized towards dockerizing manually deployed healthcare stacks and creating CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment times. My contract was extended numerous times with intent on full-time permanent employment, unfortunately the contract was abruptly ended due to financial contraints.
DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS
ACTV8me, Inc
May 2011 - April 2018
- I was hired as part of the original six-person team for a start-up concept utilizing second-screen technologies with audio fingerprinting/watermarking for iOS and Android platforms. I quickly rose as a valued member of the technology and executive team and became Director of Technology Operations. . LINUX SOFTWARE ANALYST II, Houston, TX
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST II
cPanel, Inc
January 2009 - January 2011
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR I
Softlayer
January 2007 - January 2009
