Roland Cooper

Roland Cooper has a diverse work experience spanning over two decades. Roland currently serves as the Technical Operations Lead at Brilliant since June 2021. Prior to this, they worked as a DevOps Engineer at Fast Radius, Inc. from February 2020 to June 2021, where they were responsible for developing and maintaining AWS infrastructure, monitoring CI/CD build pipelines, and implementing security policies.

From November 2018 to February 2020, Roland worked as the Director of Technical Operations at Align Income Share Funding. In this role, they focused on maintaining and advancing their backend and customer-facing platforms, including documentation of existing infrastructure and utilizing secure features of AWS and Heroku. Roland also directed the development of Align's main applications and collaborated with various teams to deliver new features and bug fixes.

Before that, Roland served as the Deputy Director of Technical Operations at Future • Finance from June 2018 to November 2018. Roland worked as the TechOps Manager at Gamut from December 2016 to June 2018, where they designed and deployed monitoring systems and established PCI compliant processes for application development and integration with third parties.

In July 2016, Roland briefly worked as a Senior Platform Engineer at Belly. Prior to that, they had an extensive tenure at Enova International from 2008 to 2016. There, they held various positions such as Monitoring Team Manager, Operations Engineering Manager, Manager of Operations Support, and Senior Operations Support Engineer. Roland'sresponsibilities included website and infrastructure monitoring, application support, and development of enterprise applications and tools. Roland demonstrated expertise in using tools such as Splunk, Zenoss, New Relic, and Ruby on Rails.

Before Enova, Roland worked as a Content Analyst at LexisNexis Butterworths from 2006 to 2008, providing technical support and developing script suites for processing custom markup. Roland started their career as a Deployment Engineer and Desktop Specialist II at RR Donnelley from 2002 to 2006, where they supported proprietary applications and delivered time-sensitive documents using XML publishing software.

In 2000 and 2001, Roland worked as an Editor at Thomson West, where they edited legal texts, ensured adherence to company style guidelines, and converted Word files to SGML documents.

Overall, Roland Cooper has a strong background in technical operations, DevOps, infrastructure management, monitoring, and application support. Roland has demonstrated their ability to lead teams, develop secure and efficient systems, and deliver high-quality solutions.

Roland Cooper pursued their Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Roland attended the university from 1996 to 2000, during which they specialized in the field of Cinema Studies. Additionally, in May 2013, Roland obtained a certification in ITIL V3 Foundation from PeopleCert.