# Mike Deeks > Infra @ Braintrust Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mikedeeks ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ Braintrust Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Instacart Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Director of Infrastructure @ Instacart Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Software Engineer / DevOps @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### DevOps Engineer @ Acompli (Acquired by Microsoft) Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California Built out our entire AWS infrastructure from scratch. Wrote software suite in Python for fully automated provisioning, server replacement, cluster expansion, and master/standby DB promotion and failover. This allowed push button changes to our entire infrastructure. Successfully integrated multiple complex systems like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Zookeeper into this automated, push button suite. Built a monitoring and graphing system based on Graphite, Nagios, and Zookeeper. Changes to infrastructure are published in Zookeeper and automatically generate monitoring rules, alerts, and graphs on dashboards. Overhauled developer build process to use Vagrant to get easily repeatable and consistent build environments. Developers could have a near replica of our production systems running on their local machines by running a single script. Setup various other systems like company wide VPN (OpenVPN), LDAP, and build servers. ### Software Engineer / DevOps @ Zynga Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 I was brought in to Zynga in a DevOps role to bring stability and scalability to their Payment service. - I built a comprehensive real time monitoring and graphing system. It proved invaluable in a system where minutes can be measured in tens of thousands of dollars. - Orchestrated a full datacenter move - Writing an maintaining the new company wide API into our system. - Solver of production outages I had my hand in most everything, writing in multiple languages (Python, Ruby, PHP, and even a bit of iOS development. ### Software Engineer II @ Electronic Arts (EA) Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 One of the early members of a team to build out EA's brand new (at the time) identity and billing system. Much like my past, I was SE by title but Generalist in practice. I built APIs, helped design for performance/reliability in a high traffic system, helped us achieve PCI security compliance for credit card processing. Project went from blank slate to central service for all games, processing millions of dollars. ### Software Engineer - Test @ Keas Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 ### Sr. QA Engineer @ Trion World Network Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ### QA Engineer III / Systems Administrator @ Electronic Arts Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ### Software Engineer / Systems Administrator @ eQuest, Inc Jan 1999 – Jan 2006 Responsible for developing and maintaining eQuest’s core software, services, and infrastructure. Worked in a team development environment on a job posting distribution software which processed approximately 100 million transactions per year. Software was written in entirely object oriented PHP and interfaced with thousands of job boards worldwide (Monster, CareerBuilder, etc). ### IT @ Passport Access Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikedeeks --- Source: https://flows.cv/mikedeeks JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mikedeeks/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05