Jeff L.

Zillow’s mission is to help more people get home — with speed, certainty and ease.

• Saved enterprise an average of $1.2M a year in AWS costs each by delivering multiple large-scale migrations on time and on budget and unified cost management and budget for a multimillion AWS spend.
• Achieved attrition rate under 5% and an employee engagement score of 100% following integration of 5 disparate SRE/DevOps teams to support and standardize SRE across engineering.
• Developed and allocated a $12M annual budget and another $500K in software licenses reporting directly to the VP of Technology and Operations

• Led a team of 10 Infra/DevOps engineers in supporting the Zillow Integrated Transaction Business, contributing to over $1 billion in annual revenue.
• Pioneered the migration of key operational components from on-prem to AWS, significantly improving infrastructure scalability and reliability.
• Managed the consolidation of DevOps and SRE teams across various product lines into a unified structure, enhancing operational efficiency.
• Implemented agile processes and rigorous engineering practices within a largely AWS-based ecosystem, significantly impacting project delivery and product development.

• Supported 50 software engineers as the first public cloud engineer in the organization.
• Developed all new CI/CD pipelines, migrated services, and provided day-to-day support to the engineering teams.
• Migrated 150 services that supported $1B in annual revenue from on-premises to AWS without any downtime or revenue disruption.

Independent DevOps Contractor

• Re-architected and re-deployed multiple client sites for an e-commerce PaaS provider; migrated from a VMWare-based enterprise architecture to AWS cloud architecture.
• Improved uptime and performance of a large Django based infrastructure for an SaaS non-profit client, moving key pieces from traditional on-prem systems to AWS with no disruption.
• Built and expanded a Linux-based infrastructure for a technology startup, completing infrastructure engineering to grow from a server in a closet serving 5 people, to a 6-rack data center serving 100+ employees.