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michaeldvinci

michaeldvinci

Senior Platform Engineer (CI/CD) at PlayStation

CT → NE → VA → WA → TX.

Books. Traveling. IOT Mad Science.

Driven by curiosity and a passion for solving complex problems, I specialize in building robust cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that empower teams to ship faster and more reliably. With deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and automation platforms, I’m at my best when experimenting, troubleshooting, and crafting inventive solutions to unusual technical challenges.

Cloud Infrastructure
CI/CD & Automation
Kubernetes
Terraform
Python
Golang

Experience

1
Sony PlayStation

May 2023 - Present

Austin, TX

Leading gaming and entertainment company.

Senior Platform Engineer (CI/CD)

May 2023 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Monitored and optimized ArgoCD deployments across 20+ clusters, proactively enhancing system reliability
  • Rearchitected CI/CD platform by converting GitLab CI to reusable GitHub Actions workflows and deploying a scalable Actions Runner Controller (ARC) on Kubernetes
  • Managed multi-environment CD pipelines in GitLab across hybrid Kubernetes clusters for dev, staging, and production
  • Released a Golang-based tooling suite enabling developers to interact with ArgoCD monorepos locally and in CI, improving testing efficiency and chart updates
  • Orchestrated webhook-driven automation using OpenAI API and local MCPs to summarize MRs and enable slash command interactions
Wyze Labs

December 2020 - May 2023

Seattle, WA

Smart home technology and IoT company.

Systems Engineer III

December 2020 - May 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Led system engineering for Wyze/Roku Smart Home app platform, overseeing end-to-end development and deployment
  • Developed dynamic Terraform modules to standardize AWS deployments across the organization
  • Transitioned manually-created AWS resources into multi-region Terraform deployments
  • Implemented on-demand ECK EKS cluster deployment scheme with immediate service integration capabilities
  • Centralized promotion and rollback strategy for AWS development environments
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Solers, a Peraton Company

June 2016 - December 2020

Arlington, VA

Leading provider of global defense and intelligence solutions.

Systems Engineer II

June 2016 - December 2020

Responsibilities:
  • Fcilitated lead for System Engineering team in deploying high-availability Kubernetes cluster IRAD in AWS GovCloud using Helm
  • Increased Infrastructure as Code deployment reliability by leveraging Ansible and Maven in project releases
  • Implemented Gerrit, Jenkins, and SonarQube CI/CD pipelines across multiple projects to improve code coverage and delivery efficiency