Patrick Cockwell - Senior DevOps Engineer

I am DevOps Engineer with a Bachelor's of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo. My specializations include infrastructure management, internal engineering enablement, and automated tooling and processes. I strive to improve the productivity and velocity of all development teams I work with and strengthen the stability and reliabilty of our systems.

Skills and Qualifications

Tools and Software

Very experienced with several GCP tools including Cloud Storage, Bigquery, Kubernetes Engine, and IAM
Highly proficient with Amazon Web Services tools including EKS, RDS, S3, EC2, Route53, IAM, and Lambda
Very strong grasp of Kubernetes, and deployment of applications using GitOps, Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD
Well versed with infrastructure management tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis and Ansible
Extensive experience with observability and monitoring platforms including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope, and AllQuiet/PagerDuty

Languages

Terraform: Over 9 years of experience working against AWS and GCP resources, including recently released products
YAML: Over 9 years of experience working on Kubernetes applications and Kubernetes YAML manifests, including Kustomize and Helm
SQL: Over 10 years of experience working with tools including MySQL and PostgreSQL
Python: More than 10 years of usage and experimentation for scripts and ETL platforms
Javascript: More than 10 years of development on various frameworks

Other Qualifications

Comfortable working in team environments and very experienced working on small teams
Passionate about computer programming, gaming, and particularly DevOps and infrastructure management
Fluent in English and French, along with a basic grasp of German

Relevant Projects

Full-Stack Monitoring Infrastructure
Comprehensive Telemetry & Alerting	January 2025 - August 2025

Implemented comprehensive monitoring stack with Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope
Configured alerting infrastructure and established oncall rotation management from scratch using AllQuiet platform
Educated development teams and stakeholders on monitoring best practices and effective observability utilization

Continuous Delivery using GitOps & ArgoCD
Rapid & Consistent Kubernetes Deployments	November 2024 - August 2025

Implemented ArgoCD for continuous deployments and delivery across all operational tooling in all environments
Refactored all Kubernetes application manifests to standardized structure and cleanup redundancies

Work Experience

NoBS Tech
Senior Observability Engineer	December 2025 - April 2026

Enhanced data collection, visibility and alerting capabilities on Datadog across multiple client engagements simultaneously
Identified and implemented cost optimization strategies for Datadog monitoring and alerting
Introduced AI-enabled development tools internally and developed custom workflows tailored to the company's needs

ReMatter Inc.
Senior DevOps Engineer	July 2024 - August 2025

Modernized developer infrastructure by deploying ArgoCD for GitOps application management
Built enterprise observability platform with full telemetry stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Alertmanager, OnCall)
Led company-wide infrastructure assessment delivering strategic recommendations across all DevOps domains

Activision Blizzard Media
Senior DevOps Engineer	August 2021 - July 2024

Developed CICD infrastructure and pipelines for code testing and deployment
Modelled existing and new infrastructure needs using Terraform and Terragrunt to standardize infrastructure management
Managed distributed computing systems using Kubernetes, Kustomize, Helm, and ArgoCD

Freefall Consulting Inc.
Owner/Contractor/Developer	June 2020 - July 2021

Worked on prominent edX open-source software project
Provisioned infrastructure and codifying architecture in Terraform module code

Flyr Inc.
Data/DevOps Engineer	May 2018 - March 2020

Led the development effort for the Flyr ETL data platform
Implemented a full redesign of GCP resource architectures using Terraform that enabled deployment of new client infrastructure on demand

Certifications

	Datadog Certified: Datadog Fundamentals	April 2026
	Datadog Certified: APM & Distributed Tracing Fundamentals	February 2026
	CNCF OpenTelemetry Certified Associate	March 2025
	HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate	April 2024
	CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator	April 2024
	CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer	June 2024

Education

University Of Waterloo
Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)	September 2009 - March 2015