Ari Sela
Marietta,GA
Summary
Accomplished DevOps leader with expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, driving $180K annual savings at Nomi Health. Spearheaded zero-downtime migrations and SOC2 compliance, transforming teams with Agile methodologies.Proficient in leveraging GitOps for rapid deployments. Strong communicator, fostering collaboration and innovation across engineering teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, DevOps & Infrastructure
Nomi Health / Artemis by Nomi Health
Remote
01.2022 - Current
- Managing 4 engineers across DevOps and Infrastructure teams, progressed from Lead Engineer to Senior Manager
- Cost Optimization & Cloud Infrastructure
- Reduced AWS spend from $115K to $100K/month ($180K annual savings) within 3 months through resource right-sizing, Karpenter spot instance scaling, RDS consolidation, and storage optimization
- Architected and maintained enterprise Kubernetes (EKS) platform supporting production workloads with 99.9%+ uptime
- Platform Migration & Modernization
- Led zero-downtime ECS→EKS migration of 10 services (frontend + backend ETL) over 2 years
- Eliminated deployment downtime: frontend from 16 min → 0, backend from 1 hour → 0
- Implemented KEDA-based autoscaling for event-driven workload optimization
- CI/CD & GitOps Transformation
- Reduced hotfix deployment time from 45 minutes → 1-2 minutes via GitOps methodology
- Decreased failed release recovery from hours → 1-5 minutes using ArgoCD with GitHub as source of truth
- Enabled continuous zero-downtime rollout deployments across all services
- Leadership & Compliance
- Transformed non-Agile infrastructure team into structured methodology with interrupt tracking and work/life balance
- Led SOC2 compliance initiatives, addressing DR gaps and implementing remediation solutions
- Spearheading AI Platform (Kagent) implementation with enterprise RBAC and security hardening
Software Engineer
Boingo Wireless
Los Angeles
04.2018 - 01.2022
- Developed Java/Spring/Python microservices and containerized applications (Docker, Quarkus)
- Built real-time RADIUS mediation processing for WiFi/DAS handling billions of requests
- Designed enterprise backend systems for rating and billing applications
Software Engineering Consultant
Verizon Wireless
01.2013 - 01.2018
- Technical lead, code review, Spring Boot/Batch development
Software Developer
Inelecom & MindHub
01.2013 - 01.2018
- .NET/Java enterprise application development
Education
B.S. - Electronic Engineering, Communications
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
01.2012
Skills
- AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager)
- Kubernetes and Docker
- Karpenter, KEDA, ESO
- Helm and Terraform for IaC
- Crossplane and GitOps
- Monitoring with Datadog and Prometheus
- GitHub Actions automation
- Cross-functional team coordination
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Security compliance implementation
- DevOps automation
- SOC2 compliance and RBAC
Languages
- Spanish
- English, Fluent
- Spanish, Native
Projects And Open Source
- Kubernetes, Terraform IaC for ArgoCD, Helm charts, GitOps deployments (monitoring, Crossplane, Vault)
- Claude-agents, AI agents for K8s monitoring and on-call engineering automation via Slack
Core Competencies
AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM), Kubernetes, Docker, Karpenter, KEDA, Helm, Terraform (Cloud & Self-Managed), Crossplane, GitOps (ArgoCD), Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, Argo Rollouts, Python, Java, Node.js, Bash, SOC2 Compliance, RBAC, Vault
Languages
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
English
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Manager, DevOps & Infrastructure
Nomi Health / Artemis by Nomi Health
01.2022 - Current
Software Engineer
Boingo Wireless
04.2018 - 01.2022
Software Engineering Consultant
Verizon Wireless
01.2013 - 01.2018
Software Developer
Inelecom & MindHub
01.2013 - 01.2018
B.S. - Electronic Engineering, Communications
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California