Cloud & infrastructure

Weston J. Wood

DevOps Engineer · Homelab Enthusiast · AWS Solutions Architect Certified

A little background

About me

Hi, I’m Weston.

I am a DevOps Engineer at Apollo Global Management and a Computer Science graduate from California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). I specialize in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and observability across AWS and Azure AKS using Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, and Datadog, and I hold the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification.

Outside of work, I love tinkering and building reliable systems from the ground up. In my living room, I host a 4 node Kubernetes homelab cluster running on Talos Linux with Flux CD, Cilium, and Grafana, and manage my machines declaratively with NixOS.

Work experience

DevOps Engineer
Apollo Global Management
El Segundo, CA
Apr 2026 – Present
- Engineered an Ansible playbook to automate the provisioning and rollout of Datadog monitoring agents across 500+ Coder Azure VM workspaces.
- Standardized the enterprise release lifecycle by integrating Jira and ServiceNow change management workflows directly with GitHub releases.
- Flux CD
- Datadog
- Terraform
- Azure AKS
- GitHub Actions
- Ansible
- Coder
Admin Support Assistant
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Oct 2025 – Mar 2026
- Migrated 1,000+ faculty accounts to a new platform, using data validation and user enablement processes to maintain accuracy and continuity.
- Led the migration of 60,000+ faculty class records from a legacy database to a modern SaaS database, reducing system latency by 30% and support tickets by 50%.
- Oracle DB
- ETL
- Data Validation
- SaaS Administration
- Identity Management
Software Engineer Intern
Pacific Clinics (via CSU Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
Aug 2024 – Jun 2025
- Led a team of 11 interns to build a mobile app connecting first generation and undocumented students and their families with legal, school, and wellbeing resources.
- Engineered a serverless AWS backend with Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito for authentication and CRUD operations against a Cloudflare D1 SQL database.
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- Amazon Cognito
- Cloudflare D1
- React Native
IT Student Assistant
California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Jan 2024 – Aug 2025
- Automated asset record creation with PowerShell scripts to gather system configuration and hardware information after workstation deployments.
- Maintained a SQL database of 1,000+ computer equipment assets to speed up equipment loans and improve asset tracking.
- PowerShell
- Windows
- System Configuration
- Workstation Deployment
- Asset Management