Jeff Burkhart

Led platform operations for large-scale IoT ecosystem supporting 2M users. Directed DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, and cloud infrastructure teams • Increased system scale by 40% with no AWS cost increase • Cut deployment time by 90% • Improved system reliability to 99.9% uptime • Implementing CI/CD automation, and self-service IaC. • Dramatically improved the security posture by integrating DevSecOps practices, implementing Secure SDLC across services, and implementing SIEM capabilities

Directed cloud, data engineering, and SRE teams for a pioneering synthetic biology company. Built a 25-person team from the ground up to support scientific computing, scalable infrastructure, and data-intensive workflows.

Directed a global engineering team of 100+ engineers developing enterprise software development tools. Teams included product management, program management, cloud services, mobile and QE. Accelerated release cadence from annual to quarterly Implemented Agile at scale across 13 global teams Improved quality : transformed QA organization to QE, implemented CI/CD Migrated infrastructure to AWS and modernized to SaaS multi-tenant architecture

Directed server engineering, QA, and DevOps teams for a platform that offers advanced social media analysis from Twitter, Facebook, and other sources - Enabled more efficient processing of over 2TB of daily data by implementing scalable backend pipelines with integrated sentiment and NLP analysis - Enhanced data sources and capabilities by driving partnerships and onboarding new content sources - ntegrated DevOps and QA into a unified engineering function

Directed a 60-person server engineering team Supervised the delivery of services supporting consumer electronics, IoT devices, and partnerships with major global media providers - Slashed partner deployment timelines from eight weeks to two days - Scaled engineering capacity by 50% - Implemented a distributed service architecture - Negotiated complex statements of work (SOWs) and lead server engineering for TiVo’s largest partnerships including Comcast, Cox, Virgin Media, Netflix and Amazon