{"$schema":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json","basics":{"name":"Cristian M. Arendell","label":"Director, Engineering","email":"carendell@me.com","summary":"Engineering leader with 8+ years building and running high-scale cloud platforms in regulated environments. I scale teams, own CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms, and get companies through SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA without slowing them down.","location":{"city":"Boston","region":"MA","countryCode":"US"},"profiles":[{"network":"LinkedIn","username":"crisarendell","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/crisarendell"}]},"work":[{"id":"dermatic-health","name":"Dermatic Health","position":"Director, Engineering","location":"Boston, MA","startDate":"2025-01","highlights":["Direct engineering and platform strategy for an early-stage startup, steering technical roadmaps across AWS infrastructure, AI systems, and regulated application architecture.","Mentor and lead a cross-functional engineering team, establishing Agile execution standards and high-quality production ownership for regulated software delivery.","Collaborate with product and compliance teams to architect AWS environments using Terraform and ECS, ensuring security-first principles in a HIPAA-regulated environment.","Spearheaded SOC 2, ISO, and HIPAA compliance initiatives, achieving readiness within 3 months.","Oversee the development of AI infrastructure and MLOps pipelines, managing the delivery of model training workflows and secure vector database integrations.","Directed development of on-device AI capabilities within a React Native mobile application, including release readiness, environment configuration, and production delivery.","Design observability practices using OpenTelemetry to improve visibility across application, infrastructure, and AI-related systems."]},{"id":"atscale","name":"AtScale","position":"Director, DevOps","location":"Boston, MA","startDate":"2023-01","endDate":"2025-01","highlights":["Spearheaded cloud and platform strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP, partnering with cross-functional leadership to align infrastructure with reliability and business growth.","Directed a distributed team of 13 engineers, implementing Agile methodologies to improve sprint velocity and foster a culture of technical excellence and accountability.","Established Kubernetes workload standards and release patterns, driving platform consistency across engineering pods through standardized Helm-based deployments.","Owned Kubernetes workload architecture, release patterns, cluster configuration, and deployment standards for engineering teams.","Redesigned and modernized legacy CI/CD processes, incorporating automation, cloud-native tooling, and deployment best practices to improve release speed and reliability.","Designed and maintained automation tooling for cloud infrastructure operations, deployment workflows, and platform management.","Reduced cloud expenditure by 35% through resource optimization, cost governance, and implementation of cost-conscious architectures.","Reduced operational costs by 25% by implementing automated solutions and process improvements.","Served as a subject matter expert for cloud architecture, Kubernetes, DevOps practices, automation, and platform engineering."]},{"id":"linus-health","name":"Linus Health","position":"Senior Site Reliability Engineer","location":"Boston, MA","startDate":"2022-02","endDate":"2023-01","highlights":["Designed and implemented AWS infrastructure for production environments in partnership with engineering, data, and architecture teams.","Built CI/CD processes from the ground up, enabling reliable deployments across multiple environments.","Established service ownership practices around observability, alerting, CI/CD, system design, and operational readiness.","Used infrastructure as code to manage production and analytics workflows, including AWS networking, authentication, and ETL-related systems.","Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation, resolving production issues and improving alert quality to reduce toil.","Improved system availability, security, compliance, and performance through cloud architecture guidance and operational best practices."]},{"id":"mimecast","name":"Mimecast","position":"Site Reliability Engineer II","location":"Boston, MA","startDate":"2021-07","endDate":"2022-02","highlights":["Supported production and development API environments serving 500K+ customers across 8 geographic regions.","Provisioned Puppet configuration changes across 2,000+ servers and 20+ services.","Managed US/FedRAMP deployments for multiple engineering teams.","Built Grafana, Prometheus, and Nagios monitoring to improve production visibility and service health.","Improved Java build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Gradle.","Maintained Git repositories, inventory files, tooling, documentation, and system configuration standards."]},{"id":"snyk","name":"Snyk","position":"Systems Engineer","location":"Boston, MA","startDate":"2020-11","endDate":"2021-07","highlights":["Developed automation and systems integrations using Python, Shell, Go, Node.js, REST APIs, and GraphQL.","Led configuration management workflows using Terraform and custom Go providers.","Built and tested CI/CD workflows using CircleCI.","Improved platform performance, security, IAM compliance, documentation, and operational automation."]},{"id":"jpl","name":"JPL","position":"Senior System Administrator","location":"Harrisburg, PA","startDate":"2019-12","endDate":"2020-11","highlights":["Partnered with executive leadership to define infrastructure strategy and secure identity processes in a regulated environment, utilizing products such as Okta.","Managed large-scale IT implementation projects, including highly-regulated Office 365 migrations, ensuring business continuity and security compliance.","Led complex data migrations to AWS and Azure while maintaining strict data governance and regulatory standards via the Egnyte platform.","Authored compliance remediation plans and documentation for client RFPs, ensuring alignment with SOX, HIPAA, NIST, and CIS standards.","Analyzed business requirements by partnering with stakeholders to develop compliant IT solutions, resulting in over $50,000 in annual cost savings."]},{"id":"leidos","name":"Leidos","position":"System Administrator","location":"Camp Hill, PA","startDate":"2017-08","endDate":"2018-06","highlights":["Assisted with upgrade of 10Gbit networking backbone, utilizing Nutanix HCI.","Administered over 1TB of SQL Database data and instances, including permissions, groups, and data recovery.","Performed all levels of hardware and software systems support for 80 clients and 75+ server instances.","Managed all new install projects for servers, switches, and other network resources.","Created proactive procedures for problem prevention and resolution, interfaced with software developers, analyzed issues, and designed solutions."]}],"skills":[{"name":"Cloud Platforms","keywords":["AWS","Azure","GCP"]},{"name":"DevOps & CI/CD","keywords":["Kubernetes","Helm","Terraform","Docker","GitHub Actions","CircleCI","ECS","Jenkins"]},{"name":"AI & Software 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