# 🐉Graham Rounds

> DevOps Engineer at Machinify, Inc.

Location: Denver Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/grahamrounds

I am driven by excellence and quality. My overall life mission is to improve most everything I touch with the end-goal of helping others. I value honesty, transparency, and community. I believe that these values are critical to success and are the cornerstone of open source. To further these values, I make a conscious effort to engage with the open source community.

Over time, my organizational and leadership skills have lended very well to my work experience, and I find them more and more relevant to my day-to-day work. I enjoy being deeply technical, but my goal is to leverage my abilities the best way possible to produce the most amount of value to those around me.

I am obsessed with how things work, and am not satisfied until I understand the entire “stack” that makes up a complex process. This obsession has led me to working with Cloud and Infrastructure. Being able to observe software from the application level down to the hardware is rewarding to me, and helps me understand why things are the way they are, and where the best targets for improvement can be.

I look forward to building solutions that provide maximum value and bring smiles to my peer’s faces as we explore complex infrastructure problems together.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff DevOps Engineer @ Machinify, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Focus on strategy and architecture. Where are we going and how do we get there?

### Senior DevOps Engineer @ Machinify, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Automate deployment of Machinify AI platform with a focus on migration to Kubernetes. Observability-first approach to managing workloads.

Notable Technologies & Languages
Ansible, Shell (Bash), Docker, Grafana, Git, Jsonnet, Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Python, Terraform

### Software Engineer - DevOps @ Platform9 Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, CA
SRE Technical lead for monitoring systems. Use open source technologies and SRE philosophy to develop a monitoring strategy for SaaS and private cloud infrastructure.
- Develop strategy and deploy prometheus throughout product for SaaS and infrastructure monitoring
- Architect deployment of CNCF sandbox project Cortex (prometheus as a service) to aggregate metrics across hundreds of deployments into a single centralized store.
- Build a error-budget SLO strategy for maintaining Platform9’s Cortex deployments, measuring and maintaining over 99.9% uptime for the SRE team’s own service.
- Participate in on-call rotation to maintain 99.9% uptime SLA for SaaS platform and cloud infrastructure
- Work cross-functionally to enable other teams to instrument their services.

Notable Technologies & Languages
Python, Jsonnet, Golang, Bash, Make, Javascript
Linux, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, Openstack, Saltstack, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, CassandraDB

### Cloud Support Engineer @ Platform9 Systems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
Established a strong support experience for a rapidly growing customer base while maintaining 99% CSAT
Proactively identify shortcomings in product and work with engineering team to resolve
Produce bug fixes to alleviate engineering technical debt
Provide architectural recommendations and solutions to customers for production infrastructure
Work closely with operations and engineering teams through customer upgrades and incidents to full resolution and RCA
Developed and executed training procedures to actively train over 10 team members
Build modern tools to measure support performance and improve customer success
Establish documentation and runbooks to establish mind-share throughout organization

Technologies and Skills
Programming: Python, Bash, Typescript, Ansible, MySQL, MongoDB, Node.js
Infrastructure: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Fission Serverless
Networking: OpenVSwitch, Linux Networking Stack
Virtualization & Storage: KVM, VMWare, Docker, Solidfire, LVM, NetApp

### IT Specialist @ University Emergency Medicine Foundation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
* Empowered the organization through rapid growth by implementing new and optimizing current technologies.
* Supported the business at all levels, end user support through system administration.
* Tackled core business problems with custom and implemented solutions.
* Optimized performance in Microsoft SQL Server by implementing an automated database maintenance plan.
* Configured, installed, and administrated network equipment.
* Designed and developed custom web forms with AngularJS front end and PHP RESTful back end.

Technologies & Skills

Programming: AngularJS, PHP, Git, MySQL, MSSQL, Javascript
Networking: Juniper, SonicWALL, Cisco, Meru wireless
System Administration: Windows Server 2003 - 2012r2, VMWare Enterprise, Active Directory, Group Policy, MS SQL Server 2014, Solarwinds
Service Desk: SAManage, LogMeIn
Security: Compliance with HIPAA and HITECH

### Math Tutor @ Community College of Rhode Island
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Warwick, RI
Math & Physics Tutoring up to Calculus II level
Specialized in tutoring students with special learning needs.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
University of Massachussetts Lowell
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Associate’s Degree in Computer Science
Community College of Rhode Island
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/graham-rounds

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Last updated: 2026-03-22