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Hi, I'm Kevin Epstein

I'm a seasoned Enterprise Cloud Architect specializing on the AWS Cloud. I help customers of all shapes and sizes across many business verticals embrace cloud for the first time, or help them take their cloud deployments to the next step. Scale, automation, and repeatability are core to everything I do. Outside of work, you might find me on a sailboat in the Santa Monica Bay, or out and about taking photos

Name:

Kevin Epstein

From:

Los Angeles, USA.

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Resume

A summary of My Resume

My Experience

Senior Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services / 2020 - Current

  • Guide and advise SLG and K12 customers on deploying net-new workloads to the cloud
  • Guided large Southern California city to multi-department deployment of Amazon Connect
  • Developed Data Lake architecture and approach for a Public Health department for large US State
  • SAP DR deployment for large Southern California city
  • Mentoring and coaching new-hires
  • Public speaking at Public Sector Summit 2022
  • Public speaking at AWS Summit (2021)

  • Distinguished Architect

    CDW / 2020 - 2020

  • Partnered with Regional sellers on AWS Services Sales
  • Developed Kubernetes Quick Start
  • Advised Commercial and Public Sector customers on AWS architectures and deployment strategies
  • Nominated and appointed as APN Partner Ambassador (August 2020)

  • Co-Founder, Chief Architect

    Onica / 2014 - 2020

  • Worked with CEO to bootstrap Cloud Practice
  • Identified and developed strategic partnerships with APN technology partners
  • Developed and Cultivated DevOps methodologies within the organization. Championed DevOps with customers
  • Developed incubation program responsible for building new practices within the organization (Big Data, Public Sector, Higher Education)
  • Partnered with Strategic Sales leader to open up Texas and New York markets
  • Developed training program for employees – delivering over 500 AWS certifications between 350 engineers
  • Responsible for assisting customers in developing and executing strategies leveraging the cloud to drive business value
  • Worked with executive management team to secure PE funding round
  • Worked with executive team to identify and execute on acquisition and integration of two APN Partners
  • Nominated and appointed as APN Partner Ambassador (December 2017)
  • Architect

    Virtusa / 2014 - 2014

  • Partners with sales team to develop customer solutions
  • Designed AWS reference architectures for RedShift, Vertica, Adobe AEM, SharePoint
  • Lead automation efforts using CloudFormation and Chef
  • Responsible for developing AWS training plan for Cloud Team
  • Recommender role for establishing strategic partnerships with 3rd party vendors to augment the Cloud Practice offerings

  • Application Operations Engineer

    Leaf Group (Demand Media) / 2013 - 2014

  • Responsible for managing all AWS account across all business units, assisting BU’s to improve availability of applications, and reduce cost by leveraging consolidated billings
  • Implemented code deployment automation for Search and Related Content applications
  • Introduced and deployed enterprise job scheduling using OSS JobScheduler
  • Responsible for managing day to day operations for Search and Related Content applications

  • Systems Engineer

    Leaf Group (Demand Media) / 2011 - 2013

  • Responsible for managing AWS environment for Studios business unit
  • Lead systems engineer for RSS Graffiti re-launch
  • Lead systems engineer for Related Content server and storage infrastructure
  • Developed POC vCloud environment
  • Planned and implemented ESX cluster upgrades for Webhosting and Media business units with zero downtime
  • Introduced Ubuntu Linux to the environment, developed the GOLD image for production use

  • My Skills

    Cloud Migration 100%

    Serverless Technologies 90%

    Database Technologies 75%

    Enterprise Architecture 90%

    Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 80%

    Networking 65%

    Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 95%

    DevOps 85%

    Python 70%

    HTML / CSS 65%

    Big Data 70%

    Automation 70%

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    +1 (310) 776-5906

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