Patrick Cockwell
Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer
8+
Years DevOps
Los Angeles, California pcockwell@gmail.com +1 805 588 3391

Senior DevOps Engineer with a Bachelor's of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Specializing in cloud infrastructure management, developer enablement, and automated tooling, with deep expertise across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Committed to improving engineering velocity, platform reliability, and observability maturity across every organization I join.

Skills & Technologies
Cloud
AWS
EKS EC2 RDS S3 Lambda Route53 IAM
GCP
GKE BigQuery Cloud Storage IAM
IaC & GitOps
Terraform Terragrunt Atlantis Ansible Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm Kustomize
AI Tools
Claude Code Cursor Notion AI
Observability
Datadog OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana Loki Mimir Tempo Pyroscope PagerDuty
Languages
Python SQL JavaScript Terraform HCL YAML Bash
Spoken
English (native) French (fluent) German (basic)
Relevant Projects
Claude Code Plugin Marketplace & Skills
Engineering Enablement & AI Tooling
  • Configured a private GitHub repository to serve as an internal Claude Code Plugin Marketplace
  • Built several AI enabled Claude Code & Claude Desktop skills and automated workflows for common company use cases
  • Provided strategies and education to allow fellow engineers and non-technical team members alike to harness AI tooling
Full-Stack Monitoring Infrastructure
Comprehensive Telemetry & Alerting
  • Deployed full observability stack: Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope
  • Built oncall rotation and alerting infrastructure from scratch using the AllQuiet platform
  • Conducted observability enablement sessions for engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders
Continuous Delivery via GitOps & ArgoCD
Rapid & Consistent Kubernetes Deployments
  • Rolled out ArgoCD for continuous delivery across all environments and operational tooling
  • Refactored and standardized Kubernetes manifests, eliminating configuration drift and redundancy
Work Experience
NoBS Tech
Senior Observability Engineer
  • Enhanced Datadog data collection, visibility, and alerting across multiple concurrent client engagements
  • Identified and implemented cost-optimization strategies for Datadog monitoring
  • Introduced AI-assisted development tooling and built custom internal workflows
ReMatter Inc.
Senior DevOps Engineer
  • Modernized developer infrastructure by deploying ArgoCD for GitOps-based application management
  • Architected enterprise observability platform: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Alertmanager, OnCall
  • Led company-wide infrastructure assessment with strategic recommendations across all DevOps domains
Activision Blizzard Media
Senior DevOps Engineer
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure for code testing and deployment at scale
  • Standardized infrastructure management using Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Managed distributed compute on Kubernetes using Kustomize, Helm, and ArgoCD
Freefall Consulting Inc.
Owner / Contractor / Developer
  • Contributed to the edX open-source platform (top LMS used by MIT, Harvard, and others)
  • Provisioned and codified client infrastructure architectures as Terraform modules
Flyr Inc.
Data / DevOps Engineer
  • Led development of the Flyr ETL data platform, enabling high-throughput ingestion pipelines
  • Redesigned GCP resource architecture in Terraform, enabling on-demand client environment provisioning
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)
2011 – 2016