Robert Lestak
Principal Cloud Engineer at Universal Music Group
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Lestak is a Principal Cloud Engineer based in Los Angeles with nine years of experience designing cloud-native, microservice-driven architectures and implementing service mesh patterns at enterprise scale. At Universal Music Group he progressed from Lead DevOps to Senior Cloud Architect and now Principal Cloud Engineer, driving automation-first approaches that reduce toil and accelerate delivery. He blends platform-building with hands-on DevOps and database experience from stints at Samsung, DIRECTV, Nitro Circus, and startups, enabling pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Known for "automate everything" mentality, he focuses on reliable, observable systems and pragmatic tooling choices that make complex distributed systems operable. An engineer who prefers shipping repeatable infrastructure over theory, he brings both organizational influence and deep technical execution to cloud modernization efforts.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at California State University Channel Islands
Github Skills (137)
network-visualization10
monitoring10
subnet10
vault10
golang10
cert10
ip-address10
aws-acm10
certificate-generation10
hashicorp-vault9
secrets9
wordpress9
proxies9
data-visualization9
k3d9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
robertlestak/procx
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:74 releases, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
robertlestak/cert-manager-sync
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Enable Kubernetes cert-manager to sync TLS certificates to AWS ACM, GCP, HashiCorp Vault, and other remote certificate stores.
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
acmcert-manageraws-acmsynccertificate-generation
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