Rasool Dastoori

Managed infrastructure for a non-profit social platform focused on community volunteering. - Migrated GitLab CI/CD executors to Docker Autoscaler hosted on GCP VMs, enabling concurrent builds and eliminating pipeline bottlenecks. - Engineered a Docker Compose environment, reducing developer onboarding from days to minutes. - Maintained 100% Terraform IaC coverage, automating multi-environment provisioning and on-demand GCP scaling.

Modernized infrastructure for an established, high-traffic news aggregation and link-sharing platform. - Migrated legacy Chef/AWS stack to Terraform and GKE, increasing deployment frequency to on-demand. - Reduced infrastructure costs by 15% via Kubernetes autoscaling and self-hosting Redis and OpenSearch. - Accelerated deployments by 30% using a GitOps CI/CD stack with strict environment isolation. - Modernized observability and disaster recovery using Datadog operators and encrypted off-site backups.

Architected multi-cloud systems for a platform providing scoring and investor matchmaking for early-stage startups. - Architected compliant GCP and AWS China infrastructure, reducing costs by 15% for China expansion. - Reduced deployment times by 80% by migrating from App Engine to GKE and Cloud Build. - Standardized cross-cloud deployments using Terraform and Helm, ensuring 100% reproducibility across providers.

Led infrastructure engineering for a neighborhood-based social platform enabling community connectivity and local news discovery. - Architected hybrid/on-prem infrastructure, reducing deployment times by 25% and saving $30K annually using PostGIS.

Engineered core infrastructure and CI/CD for a startup building a privacy-focused social messaging app. - Engineered core microservices and CI/CD workflows utilizing GitLab and DroneCI. - Optimized graph database performance via custom GraphQL libraries, significantly reducing database round-trips.