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Gareth Mason

Tyler, TX

gareth.mason@outlook.com

469-733-2721

Professional Experience

Rhapsody Health : August 2020 - Present

Roles:

Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer | Nov 2023 - Current

- Owned architecture and delivery of a production Multi-AZ high-availability platform supporting static private IP based failover alongside public-facing traffic
- Led incident response and blameless postmortems, identifying root causes, coordinating resolution, and implementing preventative improvements across infrastructure and automation.
- Built a fully automated blue/green maintenance system leveraging HA infrastructure, reducing maintenance downtime by 75%.
- Led the design and migration to a multi-tenant Amazon RDS architecture, reducing infrastructure costs by 20% while preserving performance and availability.
- Developed modular Terraform patterns enabling repeatable, scalable customer deployments.
- Troubleshot complex hybrid networking across AWS VPCs, VPNs, Direct Connect, and BGP, connecting on-prem customer networks to the cloud.
- Served as on-call SRE for a mission-critical healthcare platform; resolved high-severity incidents and maintained reliability.
- Designed and operated observability and alerting using Datadog, Grafana, Coralogix, Upwind and SentinelOne.

Web Services Instructor | April 2021 - Nov 2023

- Offered comprehensive training to customers working with SOAP and RESTful web services in the Corepoint Integration Engine
- Assisted with improving and maintaining course curriculum

Technical Support Engineer III | November 2022 - November 2023

- Served as Escalation Engineer for all Corepoint Technical Support Engineers
- Collaborated with Development to determine workarounds or solutions for escalated product defects and enhancements
- Provided technical expertise on the Corepoint Integration Engine, as well as IT networking, server infrastructure and SQL Server maintenance

Technical Support Engineer II | August 2021 - November 2022

- Served as Level 1 On-Call Engineer for critical issues after-hours
- Assisted with the onboarding of new employees
- Assisted with installation projects to deploy the Corepoint Integration Engine for on-premises and cloud environments

Technical Support Engineer I | August 2020-August 2021

- Managed a high caseload while continuing to provide a positive customer experience and promoting company values
- Assisted with complex workflows with the goal of implementing long term solutions including HL7, FTP, File, TCP/IP, SOAP and REST Web Services and SQL Server

Technical Skills

  • Terraform
  • Powershell
  • Python - Intermediate
  • Boto3 - Intermediate
  • AWS
  • Github - Intermediate

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

Education

University of Texas at Arlington : Fall 2016 - Spring 2020

Major: BA Jazz Studies, Drum Set Performance, Magna Cum Laude