Ali Tayarani

SRE-Focused DevOps Lead & Head of IT | Building Infrastructure That Supports People and the Business | AWS • Terraform • SAML • MDM

United States

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DevOps Lead and Head of IT with a strong foundation in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Supporting 130+ employees and contractors through secure, scalable infrastructure, SAML-based identity systems, and internal tooling that improves operational efficiency and day-to-day experience. I am experienced in Terraform, AWS, and automation that reduces friction across engineering and IT. My leadership comes through dependability, unblocking others, and building systems that support both business continuity and the people behind it — with openness to returning to formal management when the opportunity fits.

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Experience (16 roles)

Full-time · 2 yrs 10 mos

Current

2 roles · Oct 2022 - Present

Head of Information Technology, DevOps, and Information Security

Current

Jun 2024 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos·San Bruno, California, United States · Hybrid

* Configured OneLogin as a SAML IdP for services like Google Workspace and Slack, simplifying user access and improving authentication security. * Reviewed SOC 2 compliance reports and security documentation as part of vendor procurement, helping ensure third-party services met internal standards. *...

DevOps Lead

Oct 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos·San Bruno, California, United States · Hybrid

* Rolled out Terraform to manage platform and IT infrastructure as code (IaC), replacing ad hoc scripts with reusable modules and improving deployment reliability and change tracking. * Developed and maintained AWS CDK infrastructure for serverless applications, including Lambda, API Gateway, and IA...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ATOMYZE LLC · Full-time

Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos·Remote

* Migrated GitLab (self-managed) to GitLab SaaS, automating the transition with custom Python and Ruby scripts using GitLab APIs to reduce downtime and manual overhead. * Optimized CI/CD pipelines, removing 500+ lines of redundant code and implementing auto-tagging for Terraform modules to accelerat...

Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability

Calm · Full-time

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

helped me get this job * Designed and upgraded an Atlantis Kubernetes stateful set deployment that leveraged terraenv for dynamic selection of Terragrunt and Hashicorp Terraform versions in a way that is largely invisible to the users of the system * Utilized AWS Reserved Instances (RIs) and Compu...

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Education (3)

City College of San Francisco

2018 - 2019

Grade: 4.0

Purdue University

2015 - 2015

Bentley University

2002 - 2006

Minor in Management

Skills (55)

Distributed Team ManagementSecurity Assertion Markup Language (SAML)Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Mobile Device ManagementAmazon EKSThird-Party Vendor ManagementIdentity and Access Management (IAM)AWS CDKIT Project & Program ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)IT Security Policies & ProceduresPlanning Budgeting & ForecastingGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)TerraformMicrosoft IntuneSAMLSlackPythonGitHubAWSJiraChefRubyGitGitLabTerraformSonarQubeKubernetesGKEGoogle CloudPostgreSQLIT StrategyGo (Programming Language)DatadogTeam LeadershipAutomationAnsibleCloudEC2RDSIAMLambdaAPI GatewayDatadogCircleCICloudflareJavaScriptECSSplunkPuppetLinuxEKSJenkinsAWSSAML

Certifications (9)▼

A+

CompTIA

Series 3

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

RHCSA

Red Hat

Puppet Certified Professional

PuppetLabs

RHCE

Red Hat

Network+

CompTIA

Linux+

CompTIA

Duolingo Spanish Fluency: Elementary (Estimated)

Duolingo

Programming with Google Go Specialization

Coursera

Publications (7)▼

PagerDuty Utilities: Using PagerDuty APIs for Better Deployment

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Mar 18, 2015

Manging Shell Access in a Cloud Environment – Part II

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Aug 1, 2014

Automate it All: Taking TASS to the Next Level

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Sep 21, 2015

Taming Your Autoscaling Groups

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Jul 13, 2015

Managing Shell Access in a Cloud Environment – Part I

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Jul 31, 2014

Using LDAP Without Getting Your Hands Dirty

Tapjoy Engineering Blog · Mar 26, 2015

xCAT: How to build 16 systems in 16 minutes

Apr 14, 2010

Languages (3)▼

Farsi(Native or bilingual proficiency)English(Native or bilingual proficiency)Spanish(Elementary proficiency)

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ali Tayarani's current role?▼

Ali Tayarani is currently working as Head of Information Technology, DevOps, and Information Security at Full-time · 2 yrs 10 mos.

Where did Ali Tayarani study?▼

Ali Tayarani studied Certificate of Achievement, Java Development at City College of San Francisco. They have 3 education entries on their profile.

What skills does Ali Tayarani have?▼

Ali Tayarani's top skills include Distributed Team Management, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Mobile Device Management, Amazon EKS. They have 55 skills listed on their profile.

Where is Ali Tayarani based?▼

Ali Tayarani is based in United States.