Built By Jarrod

Cox Automotive, Inc.

Cox Automotive, Inc.

Privately held provider of automotive services & software solutions; division of Cox Enterprises

Principal Software Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering

2018 - Present

  • Drive engineering advancements with a zero-downtime approach to ensure seamless product delivery without impacting customer traffic or financial growth.
    • Lead project oversight for a team of 6 indirect reports, driving the project strategy and task delegation.
    • Facilitate new hire onboarding to introduce team patterns, processes, and dynamics.
  • Lead API gateway implementation with goal of streamlining API management to handle 15B requests annually.

DevOps Enhancements: Implement CI/CD pipeline best-practices to optimize the developer user experience.

  • Build an in-house GitHub Actions pipeline for Terraform, improving scalability through accelerated deployments and error reduction.
  • Create a reusable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for organization-wide adoption, driving resiliency, reliability, and developer productivity.
    • Develop and maintain a platform that’s still utilized across 60 applications today since 2019.

Automation: Built and managed systems, infrastructure & applications through automation.

  • Provided infrastructure and support for $40M logistics re-platforming project for Ready Logistics subsidiary.
    • Successfully streamlined Ready Logistics auto transport operations through a deplatforming of their comprehensive in-house application code and transitioning operations to outsourced solution DHL.

Cloud Migration: Led the backend migration of a large legacy data center to Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling a scalable PaaS that supports 60+ applications and 180+ team members.

  • Oversaw phased migration and re-platforming of 20-30 web servers: upgrading a formerly manual hardware management system to 100% infrastructure-as-code (IaC) with automated deployments that improved scalability & consistency.
    • Facilitated the migration of a 4TB database from IBM DB2 to MySQL, optimizing performance and ensuring a seamless transition.
    • Managed in-house development of a cloud-based PaaS, leveraging AWS, ECS, & Docker to optimize infrastructure.
  • Designed & implemented a disaster recovery strategy within AWS, eliminating single points of failure by leveraging multi-AZ deployments, automated backups, and failover mechanisms for database resilience.