Mike Garrison

AWS Global Solutions Architect, AWS Automotive

Detroit Metropolitan Area

About

6+ years of AWS experience (S3, Ec2, lambda, RDS, etc..), including things like terraform for infrastructure as code 17+ years of system administration for large to small Linux/UNIX based environments. 5+ years of experience running multiple complex high availability storage environments. Always interested in new and upcoming technology. Enjoy working on challenging problems that require a breadth of knowledge, embracing open source software and custom solutions to support production environments. Passionate about connecting across teams to strengthen existing solutions or build new solutions. Specialties: Linux (RHEL, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Linux From Scratch) AWS (S3, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, VPN, etc..) Ansible Terraform Elasticsearch Kubernetes Hadoop (HDFS, Impala) Docker SaltStack OpenAFS Apache Storage (SAN, NAS, NFS, CIFS, Fibre Channel, direct attached storage) Hardware evaluation, stress testing, and diagnostics Network Administration SAN Storage IBM SVC (SAN Volume Controller) - Storage Virtualization NetApp 7mode and cDot clusters radmind (tripwire based system that uses transcripts to deploy systems)

Experience

  • AWS Global Solutions Architect, AWS Automotive at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • Toyota Research Institute (5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Tech Lead, Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering
      Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Technical Lead, Infrastructure Engineering
      Mar 2018 - Feb 2021 · 3 yrs

    • Senior Systems Engineer
      Nov 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

      * Key member responsible for management of resources inside of AWS, including S3, EC2, VPCs, Route 53, Elasticsearch Service, Athena, IAM, and more. * Installation, configuration, and maintenance Kubernetes running on EC2 instances, including spot instances. * Liaison between IT and other teams to help align company priorities and ensure the success of key demos and projects * SME for secure communication and ingestion of sensitive data

  • Woven Planet Holdings ()
    • Staff Engineer, MaaS AD
      Feb 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

      * Lead successful migration and integration of our driving software onto a new platform, working across the world to bridge gaps between the US and Japan. "Without him, we could not have achieved our important milestone." * Mentored members on designing services for the cloud, demonstrating how tools they were building could be improved by utilizing services such as AWS DynamoDB * Worked closely with our AWS team on resolving capacity issues with GPU instances and improving existing AWS services, to increase internal customer satisfaction

    • Senior Engineer, MaaS AD
      Jan 2021 - Feb 2021 · 2 mos

      On assignment from TRI to Woven Planet (TRI-AD became Woven Planet Holdings)

  • Senior Engineer, MaaS AD Development at Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Seconded to TRI-AD, MaaS AD Development

  • Deepfield ()
    • Lead Systems Engineer
      May 2016 - Nov 2016 · 7 mos

      * Grow and develop a team of Systems Developers and Systems Engineer * Help set technical direction for system level software and configuration * SME for HDFS configuration and performance * Work with developers to triage, diagnose, and solve complex software and system level problems

    • Systems Engineer
      Feb 2015 - May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

      * Help deploy, run and maintain a diverse set of clusters for customers across both Cloud and On Premise deployments utilizing SaltStack for orchestration * All Things AWS: EC2, S3, VPC (including VPN connections), SQS * Work with customers to diagnose and solve connectivity and hardware problems * Test and document upgrade of core software * Standardize all deployments to use HDFS and Impala * SME for HDFS configuration and performance * Work closely with developers to triage, diagnose, and solve software problems