Marcus A. Bastian
About Marcus A. Bastian
Marcus A. Bastian is a Principal DevOps Engineer at Crexi with a diverse background in DevOps and site reliability engineering across various companies.
Title
Marcus A. Bastian holds the title of Principal DevOps Engineer at Crexi, a position he has been serving in since 2022. He also operates his business, Clouductivity, as a Business Owner, a role he started in 2018.
Current Company
Marcus A. Bastian is currently employed at Crexi as a Principal DevOps Engineer. He has been with the company since 2022 and works out of Los Angeles, California. Additionally, he runs his own business, Clouductivity, based in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area.
Past Positions
Marcus has accumulated extensive experience in DevOps roles. He was a Senior DevOps Engineer at ReadySet Technology, Inc. from 2021 to 2022. Prior to that, he served as DevOps Manager at LeafLink from 2019 to 2021. He has also worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at SoulCycle Inc. from 2018 to 2019 and as Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Malwarebytes from 2016 to 2018. Additionally, Marcus held positions at ConnectWise as DevOps Engineer/Lead Automation Engineer from 2013 to 2016 and at PCI, LLC as SQL Developer/Support Analyst II from 2010 to 2013.
Education and Certifications
Marcus A. Bastian has an educational background in Information Technology Security. He obtained an Associates of Science degree from Pasco-Hernando State College, studying from 2008 to 2011. He also studied Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Hillsborough Community College, completing his study in 2011.
Technical Skills and Implementations
Marcus has demonstrated a broad range of technical skills in the DevOps domain. He implemented AppDynamics APM from proof of concept to production, advocating for and successfully integrating Gatling load tests. He integrated Kubestate Metrics into GKE clusters and created numerous dashboards within Datadog and AppDynamics. He also refactored over 30 queries in MySQL/PostgreSQL, achieving significant optimizations. His other contributions include architecting a Python-based distributed load testing system for Gatling and developing Terraform modules to encapsulate application-specific cloud resources.