Below are some of my projects involving KSQL, grouped by company. Click to read more about the relevant projects and chat with me to follow up on any topic you'd like to hear more about!
Instead of splitting devops and infrastructure and tests completely separate from development teams, I moved the needle so that product development teams could own more of their own infrastructure and tests, creating less back-and-forth and empowering teams to deliver.
We used Devspace, which meant any dev or team could stand up a reproducible, isolated stack with multiple services and frontends running, in the cloud, as well as modify the definitions of the infrastructure and code themselves, directly, without permission or external team tickets.
This enabled product engineers to do more experimentation and testing thru declarative infrastructure and configuration management while still protecting our production environments, unlocking their shackles and potential as the experts in the software.
At the same time I worked to reduce the outsized role our amazing DevOps team was playing in the day to day management as well as enhancement of environments, which unfairly impeded expert developers by introducing red tape and inter-team processes that didn't add value.
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Key Results
Reduced deployment lead time by 75% enabling product teams to self-serve infrastructure
Decreased inter-team ticket volume by ~60% through developer empowerment
Enabled parallel development with isolated cloud environments for each developer
