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Aaron Longfield

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Sterling, Massachusetts, United States

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  • Salesloft
    Staff DevOps Engineer
    Salesloft
    Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)
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    • Lead Staff-level DevOps initiatives supporting dozens of microservices running on
    Kubernetes, improving deployment reliability and operational consistency across
    teams.
    Contributed to platform and CI/CD improvements that reduced deployment-related
    incidents by about 30% and improved rollout confidence for engineering teams.
    Partnered with product and engineering leaders to support infrastructure scaling for
    tens of thousands of daily users, ensuring stable performance during traffic spikes.
    Improved observability and alerting coverage across critical services, helping reduce
    mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 20-25%.
    Drove automatio
  • Drift
    Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Drift
    Nov 2019 - Feb 2024 (4 years 4 months)
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    • Led reliability engineering for customer-facing platforms supporting millions of
    monthly interactions, maintaining 99.9%+ service availability across production
    systems.
    Designed and operated Kubernetes-based infrastructure handling high-traffic, latency-
    sensitive workloads, improving platform stability during peak usage periods.
    Implemented monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows that reduced MTTR
    by 35-40% and improved on-call effectiveness.
    Automated deployment and operational processes, reducing release friction and cutting
    manual operational effort by 30%.
    Partnered cross-functionally to embed SRE practices into engineering workflows,
    imp
  • BitSight Technologies
    Senior Operations Engineer
    BitSight Technologies
    Jan 2018 - Nov 2019 (1 year 11 months)
    • Supported DevOps and reliability engineering for a core data pipeline and analytics
    platform used by hundreds of internal users.
    • Managed application and service lifecycles in Kubernetes, reducing deployment-related
    issues by 25%.
    • Deployed and operated workloads on AWS (EC2, EMR), supporting large-scale data
    processing across analytics systems.
  • VistaPrint
    Lead DevOps Engineer / Data Engineer
    VistaPrint
    Feb 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 11 months)
    • Led DevOps and data engineering initiatives supporting BI and marketing teams serving
    millions of customers.
    • Designed ETL workflows and data warehouse schemas, improving data availability and
    analytics turnaround by 30%.
    • Expanded data infrastructure into AWS and built CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment
    time by 40%.
    • Architected Apache NiFi data movement pipelines and a near real-time streaming
    platform using Kafka, HBase, and Storm.
    • Served as DBA for Hadoop clusters and SQL Server environments, improving
    performance and reliability.
    • Implemented AWS cost monitoring and optimization practices, contributing to 15-20%
    infrastructure cost savings.
  • VistaPrint
    Lead Operations Support Engineer / Lead Sustaining Engineer
    VistaPrint
    Jun 2012 - Feb 2016 (3 years 9 months)
    • Led sustaining engineering and production operations for customer-facing platforms
    with millions of lines of code.
    • Resolved complex production issues and drove root-cause remediation to reduce
    recurring incidents.
    • Owned integrations with external manufacturing partners and pricing systems
    supporting white-label platforms.
    • Built reporting tools to assess incident impact and guide remediation efforts with
    customers and partners.
  • Fitchburg State University
    Professional Tutor
    Fitchburg State University
    May 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 8 months)
    • Operated and supported a 24×7 high-availability production environment for global
    telecom customers.
    • Built reporting platforms to analyze subscriber activity and support marketing insights.
    • Supported Perl and Java applications running on WebLogic and Apache Tomcat.
    • Migrated infrastructure from physical servers to VMware ESXi, reducing operational costs
    and improving performance.
    • Administered MySQL databases, including tuning, schema design, and maintenance.
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    System Administrator
    LiveWire Mobile, Inc.
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2010 (2 years)
    • Provided certified tutoring for undergraduate and graduate Computer Science students.
    • Delivered targeted learning programs and assessments to improve student
    performance.
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    Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
    Fitchburg State College
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2012 (4 years)