Karen Porter

Overview

Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Lockheed Martin, focused on cloud infrastructure. Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 41% in two quarters. Before that: Qualcomm and Deloitte. Most at home with Linux and Prometheus. I mentor first-time managers when I can.

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Experience

1. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Jun 2023 - Present
   Lockheed Martin · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 43% in two quarters.
2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Jun 2023
   Qualcomm · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 20% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Site Reliability Engineer

   Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
   Deloitte · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Wrote the Linux service that now handles 7 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 349ms to 90ms.
4. Site Reliability Engineer

   Oct 2014 - Jul 2017
   UnitedHealth Group · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 13 a week to 3.
   • Moved 94% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

1. Stanford GSB

   MBA, Business Administration
   2015 - 2017
2. NYU

   BA, Computer Science
   2009 - 2013