Lorenzo Bivens

Leadership + Engineering

Experience leading high-profile projects, taking ownership of hiring, mentoring, and project management (Kanban, Agile)
15+ years hands-on system administration on Linux, SmartOS, FreeBSD, and Windows
7+ years Cloud Operations Leadership, building, orchestrating, and leveraging private/public clouds
Python scripting, with C/C++/Java foundations, and experience debugging multiple languages
Well-versed in Systems Architecture, and Components such as Databases, Workers, Storage, Message Queues, Load Balancers, and other services
Highly versatile and self-taught in changing work environments: Quick development of new skills and expertise, whether learning about Operating Systems, Languages, or Industrial I&C

Sr. DevOps Engineer, AstrumU Bellevue
Jan 2024 - Current

Sr. Software Engineer, Microsoft Redmond
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023

Designed and implemented a Kubernetes controller to extract events reliably at planetary scale, offering millions of dollars in saved resources vs. the equivalent log based solution.
Architected a service to aggregate health signals from deployments to detect defects early in a rollout, stopping any service degradation caused by deployment failures.
Contributed to MS Team scale up operations identifying service performance bottlenecks and workarounds.
Analyzed safe deployment practices globally and collected data on best practices and areas of opportunity, producing guidelines to help hundreds of teams to exceed their service objectives.
Lead teams, planned work-streams, coached talent, screened candidates.

Sr. Principal Software Engineer (Lead), CBRE Seattle/New York
Apr 2016 – Jun 2019

Bootstrapped DevOps practice, mentoring engineers on tooling and processes to ship code faster, consistently, and safely
Technical leadership on Digital Transformation, DevOps, Cloud Migration, and Security
Designed and implemented infrastructure for new client facing products, and corporate services
Architected Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategy for the CBRE Build team’s products
Implemented patterns to use Ansible, Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Gitlab, and Docker to develop and deploy applications consistently and immutably to AWS
Introduced automated security auditing tools into such as lynis, rkhunter, metaexploit
Hands-on debugging on performance issues, pairing with engineers to help them find bottlenecks in their code or in the infrastructure setup
Work on Message Queues as an Enterprise Service Bus using RabbitMQ, Kafka
Maintenance of data repositories like Postgres, Redis, CouchDB, S3

Sr. Vice President, Lucera New York
Jul 2013 – Ap 2017

Recruited and led the first Operations team (3 members) to bootstrap the company’s infrastructure, from empty datacenter cage to full stack
Built and managed a high-performance private cloud environment based on SmartOS serving Fortune 500 financial clients
Coordinated and supervised the greenfield deployment of equipment in New York and Chicago
Cloud Orchestration using Joyent’s SmartDatacenter and our own (Project FiFo)
Automated processes using Ansible, Fabric, Rundeck
Optimized systems performance at the OS level using tools such as dtrace, kstat, strace, lttng, sytemtap
Implemented, maintained, tuned, and operated Lucera’s Low latency SDN (Software Defined Network)
Tested and deployed monitoring and performance testing suites (Nagios, Statsd, Zabbix, Datadog)
Deployed and managed a log management stack based on Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana

Developer, SysAdm/NetAdm, Cantor Fitzgerald New York
Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

Managed the infrastructure for a 24x5 foreign exchange electronic trading platform and adjacent businesses
Responsible for the connection with 3rd party market liquidity providers and takers
Routinely performed network traffic analyses to troubleshoot or optimize trading efficiency
Performed systems performance analyses to correlate their impact on trading
Operated storage arrays hosting market data databases, web services, shared folders
Developed custom solutions for network and systems management

Director of Information Technology, Tracer Imaging New York
Dec 2010 - Jun 2012

Developed High Performance Systems for the parallel digital processing of 3D images and videos
Designed the integration process of IT systems with business partners such as Target, Rite Aid, Fujitsu
Designed and implemented business-critical manufacturing processes
Directed and coordinated international coding teams for the development of proprietary tools and high volume websites

Instrumentation Engineer, Iberdrola Engineering and Construction Doha, Qatar
Mar 2009 - Nov 2010

Supervised 3 contractor teams to install 4000 instrumentation systems in highest-capacity power plant in the Middle East operating one the largest electrical substations in the world
Planned tasks and managed a $1.2M USD budget for the procurement of instrumentation materials and payment of works according to project schedule
Deadline and budget compliant. Handed over all instrumentation systems before schedule

Contract System Administration && Software Development Multiple locations
1996 – 2009

Google Summer of Code 2007 contributing to the Plan 9 from Bell Labs Operating System
Dtrace: Core Features & Performance Analysis, Joyent Training
Computer Security Engineering Courses, Universidad TecMilenio
Electronic Systems Engineering Courses, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Java Certification Courses, Carnegie Mellon Education
Amateur Radio Operator - General Class, FCC