Welcome 👋🏾
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Kwamae McPherson

SRE | DevOps | Cloud Architect

I’m Kwamae McPherson, Site Reliability Engineer
Based in Chicago, IL.

I build and operate production systems with a focus on reliability, automation, observability and cost efficiency at scale.

500k+

Annual Cloud Cost Optimized

50+

Clusters Operated

8+

Engineering Experience

3+

Companies Scaled
Through Infra Maturity

💼 Experience

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Webflow
December 2022 - Current

Responsible for improving the reliability and stability of Webflow’s customer-facing, production infrastructure currently serving millions of page views per hour.

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AWS Engineer – Freelance

LyfeCycle Payments a.k.a Covenant Pay
April 2022 - Aug 2024

Orchestrated the deployment of applications, including PHP Laravel, Flutter, and JavaScript, utilizing the scalability and flexibility of AWS Fargate.

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Site Reliability Engineer

Garmin
April 2021 - December 2022

Responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the Garmin’s backend services infrastructure consisting of 1000+ VMs and Containers across multiple environments as well as building and setting up new tools to improve the development and release process.

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AWS Engineer/Solution Architect – Freelance

CalcuTrack
April 2020  - April 2022

Served as the lead AWS engineer for a financial ASP.NET application hosted on Windows Server. Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines, provisioned production and test environments using infrastructure-as-code, and managed EC2 infrastructure to ensure secure, reliable, and repeatable deployments.

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Sr. Application Support Engineer

Commerce Bank
February 2020 - April 2021

Enhanced the managing and provisioning process by implementing IAC across all servers and well as process improvements to ticketing procedures.

Sr. Interface Engineer  

Cerner (Oracle Health)
August 2017 - February 2020

Designed, installed, configured, coded, and tested HL7 Interfaces to allow for interoperability between various systems.

🎓 Education

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Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Information Systems

Georgia State University
2012 - 2017