{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Sally Roth", "label": "SRE & Platform Engineer", "url": "https://resume.sallyroth.dev", "summary": "Site reliability engineer with 17+ years across DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure/platform engineering at GoDaddy, Ripple, Oracle, Auth0, and GitHub. Designs and runs large-scale, highly available systems on AWS and multi-cloud, with deep experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability. Has run on-call rotations, written many postmortems, and set SLOs based on business expectations. Extensive AWS IAM role design and certificate-based authentication and certificate management. Orchestrates multiple AI agents from multiple vendors in daily work and invests about 20 hours a week tracking AI developments to bring them into engineering workflows, which has substantially increased her output.", "location": { "city": "Portland", "region": "OR", "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "rothsa", "url": "https://github.com/rothsa" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "sallyroth", "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sallyroth" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "GoDaddy", "position": "Site Reliability Engineer 5", "startDate": "2022-11", "summary": "SRE and platform engineering for GoDaddy's digital marketing product; migrated it from bare metal to Kubernetes.", "highlights": [ "Building a service ownership and governance system across hundreds of engineering teams, so ownership is clear and leadership has visibility as delivery speeds up.", "Writes code through AI agents, primarily Claude, and reviews every change; She hasn't hand-written code since 2025; Ruby and Bash are her main tooling languages.", "Migrated a large, high-volume email platform for GoDaddy's digital marketing product from bare metal to Kubernetes with zero downtime, while the team shipped several times a day.", "Builds infrastructure as code and CI/CD across AWS and on-prem for the SMTP and Content API platforms, including Kinesis and GitHub Actions.", "Refactors and rearchitects decades-old, high-traffic, highly complex, highly profitable application stacks (Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, MySQL) to meet modern demands.", "Delivered major upgrades to the primary database of a system that generates millions of emails per day, and migrated thousands of AWS resources across accounts, including billions of customer files.", "Wrote a TypeScript AWS CDK repository that brought an AWS account with thousands of resources under infrastructure as code for the first time.", "Handled Sidekiq memory growth under traffic bursts: added Prometheus instrumentation, tested jemalloc and tcmalloc, and set memory limits from observed usage for controlled recycling. The metrics also exposed slow Rails controllers that she made more efficient.", "Right-sized workloads from observed usage, cutting per-pod memory requests by about 75%, and hardened container builds: non-root runtime, multi-stage builds, build-time secret mounts, health checks.", "Major contributor to the company's internal Claude GitHub Action; orchestrates multiple AI agents from multiple vendors in daily work.", "Collaborate with development teams to embed robust security and observability (metrics, logging, tracing) into the platform." ] }, { "name": "Ripple", "position": "Staff Technical Operations Engineer", "startDate": "2019-09", "endDate": "2022-11", "summary": "Multi-cloud observability platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) with Kubernetes.", "highlights": [ "Ripple's platform ran across AWS, Azure, and GCP and multiple regions; designs infrastructure and code to abstract for multi-region.", "Wrote several custom Prometheus exporters.", "Hands-on Kubernetes operations: cluster upgrades, operators, Helm charts, day-to-day cluster work.", "Kubernetes security on the multi-cloud platform: network policy with Istio, pod security, secrets management with Vault and Kubernetes Secrets, and RBAC design.", "Led the design, deployment, and maintenance of a multi-cloud observability platform (AWS, Azure, and GCP) using Kubernetes, implementing monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) with custom automation in Go, Python, and Bash.", "Consulted and educated development teams on instrumentation best practices for building observable and maintainable systems, and enforced metric cardinality standards.", "Consolidated multiple SaaS monitoring tools (Grafana Cloud, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sumo Logic) into a unified observability stack.", "Led a major RBAC redesign for all customer-facing infrastructure, refactoring a large legacy access management stack (Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, LDAP, Okta).", "Served as an escalation point in the SRE on-call rotation, diagnosing and resolving incidents on mission-critical services." ] }, { "name": "Oracle Corporation", "position": "Site Reliability Engineer", "startDate": "2017-05", "endDate": "2019-09", "summary": "Internal PaaS and developer infrastructure at massive scale.", "highlights": [ "Supported SOC 2 compliance work.", "Built and automated developer infrastructure tools and provisioning systems for Oracle Data Cloud using Python, Ruby, Shell scripting, Ansible, and Chef on CentOS.", "Designed and launched an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) with Prometheus, ELK stack, and GitLab.", "Onboarded multiple engineering teams to the new PaaS, guiding them in deploying applications and adopting reliability best practices.", "Monitored and managed operations at massive scale (tens of thousands of nodes)." ] }, { "name": "Auth0", "position": "Production Engineer", "startDate": "2016-06", "endDate": "2017-05", "summary": "ChatOps-driven CI/CD on AWS/Azure with MongoDB at scale.", "highlights": [ "Implemented a chatops-driven CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins (integrated with Slack and Hubot) to automate deployments on AWS and Azure.", "Provisioned and managed scalable MongoDB database clusters using Terraform and SaltStack.", "Developed monitoring dashboards and alerting solutions using Datadog and Kibana.", "Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations and resolved production incidents." ] }, { "name": "GoDaddy", "position": "Systems Engineer", "startDate": "2015-02", "endDate": "2016-06", "summary": "ChatOps CI/CD pipeline and Puppet automation for email marketing product.", "highlights": [ "Designed and built a ChatOps-driven CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, Slack, Hubot, Capistrano, Rails on CentOS) for a new GoDaddy Email Marketing product.", "Automated server provisioning and configuration with Puppet for product launch.", "Developed a staged deployment pipeline for 4,000+ legacy MySQL instances using Jenkins, shell scripts, Puppet, Python, and Elasticsearch.", "Collaborated with database and operations teams to normalize configurations via Puppet." ] }, { "name": "GitHub, Inc.", "position": "Email Infrastructure Engineer", "startDate": "2013-10", "endDate": "2014-12", "summary": "Scalable email infrastructure for GitHub's email services.", "highlights": [ "Engineered scalable, highly available email infrastructure using Puppet, Ubuntu Linux, and custom tools (Ruby on Rails, Bash).", "Implemented and managed bulk email delivery systems (PowerMTA and Postfix) for multiple internal applications.", "Investigated and resolved customer-facing email issues by analyzing logs with Splunk.", "Proposed and served in a rotating incident commander role covering all GitHub products, pairing a coordinator with an investigator on every incident." ] }, { "name": "Mad Mimi, LLC", "position": "Chief of Email Infrastructure & Delivery", "startDate": "2009-11", "endDate": "2013-10", "summary": "Led email deliverability and anti-abuse for marketing email platform.", "highlights": [ "Led email deliverability and anti-abuse efforts, designing anti-abuse tools and managing a team of two specialists.", "Managed and optimized a high-volume email infrastructure (Rails, PowerMTA, Postfix) for bulk sending at scale.", "Built internal analytics tools in Ruby on Rails for anti-abuse and customer support teams.", "Collaborated with clients and ISPs to coordinate responsible bulk email sending practices." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Walla Walla University", "studyType": "B.S.E., Electrical Engineering concentration", "area": "Minor in Mathematics", "endDate": "2009" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Cloud & Platforms", "keywords": [ "AWS (EC2, S3, Fargate, CloudWatch)", "Google Cloud Platform", "Microsoft Azure" ] }, { "name": "Containers & Orchestration", "keywords": [ "Docker", "Kubernetes" ] }, { "name": "Infrastructure as Code", "keywords": [ "Terraform", "AWS CDK (TypeScript)", "CloudFormation", "Puppet", "Ansible", "Chef", "SaltStack" ] }, { "name": "CI/CD & 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"English", "fluency": "Native" }, { "language": "Spanish", "fluency": "Proficient (B1)" }, { "language": "Croatian", "fluency": "Beginner (A1)" }, { "language": "Slovenian", "fluency": "Beginner (A1)" } ], "interests": [ { "name": "Speaking", "keywords": [ "DevOps DC", "PuppetConf 2015–2017", "ScaleConf Colombia", "RubyFuza (South Africa)", "SendGrid Training events" ] }, { "name": "Community", "keywords": [ "User of CNCF projects and occasional contributor: small merged changes to Prometheus ecosystem projects (cloudwatch_exporter, kube-prometheus-stack chart, prometheus-operator) and puppet-lint", "Founded Engineers Without Borders chapter at Walla Walla University", "Founded Phoenix Puppet Users Group" ] }, { "name": "Media", "keywords": [ "Interviewed in \"Developer Hegemony\" by Erik Dietrich", "Featured on \"Developer on Fire\" podcast", "Featured on \"Hanging Out With Mad Mimi\" podcast" ] } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://resume.sallyroth.dev/resume.json", "lastModified": 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