Zee Caniago

Staff Software & Platform Engineer

• Led infrastructure and deployment automation for SaaS services using Terraform, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), Docker, Python, and Bash.
• Partnered with delivery teams to strengthen CI/CD workflows and release processes using Azure DevOps, Codeway, TeamCity, and GitHub, improving operational readiness and supporting release objectives.
• Improved observability and service health monitoring with Datadog, Splunk, Sysdig, and OpenTelemetry; automated Datadog alerting and on-call workflows to support service reliability.
• Built immutable Linux VM provisioning with Packer and Ansible, with Python-based infrastructure validation to support adoption by engineering teams.
• Delivered centralized secrets management using Vault, Ansible, and Terraform, aligned with HP Cybersecurity standards.
• Contributed to SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits by standardizing and automating controls, collecting evidence, and coordinating with engineering, security, and external auditors.
• Integrated Trivy vulnerability scanning into CI pipelines; automated policy enforcement and resource cleanup with AWS Lambda.
• Partnered with the Platform Architect on proofs of concept for consistent CI/CD patterns across Jenkins, GitHub, and TeamCity.
• Created internal tools for access and role automation, pre-flight validation, and certificate management, with runbooks and documentation to support team adoption.

Software / DevOps Engineer II

• Automated monthly patching and infrastructure provisioning for 150+ Windows Server and CentOS hosts using Ansible and scripting.
• Modernized CI/CD with Jenkins, Ansible, Bash, and Python; integrated Artifactory promotion and SonarQube analysis, and moved services to Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implemented an authenticating HTTP/SOCKS proxy and standardized host aliases, fully qualified domain names, and domain locations.

DevOps / Release Engineer

Jan 2017 – May 2020

• Led rolling deployments that eliminated late-night releases, saving more than $100,000 annually in deployment costs.
• Automated build, test, and deployment workflows across 17 production, 23 staging, and 50+ development and testing environments.
• Contributed to a Google Cloud disaster recovery solution and led adoption of Elasticsearch and Redis to improve application performance and resilience.

Software Engineer

Apr 2012 – Jan 2017

• Built patient recovery pathways, invoicing and quoting, appointment management, financial reporting, and background processing for a global hearing-care SaaS platform using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.