Kura Labs
Lew P. is an experienced business executive with a solid background in finance, operations, and strategic management. Currently serving as CFO and COO of Proclivity Systems and Chief Financial Officer at Kura Labs, Lew P. also holds the position of Advisory Board Member at Hanky Panky. As the Founder and Principal of Three Pillars Consulting since 2015, Lew P. has demonstrated expertise in entrepreneurship and consulting. Previous roles include co-founding Giant Leap and Prepose, and serving as Group Vice President of New Business Development and Digital Commerce at Bravado Merchandising Group under Universal Music. Lew P. has extensive experience with Ralph Lauren, holding multiple leadership positions including Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Vice President of Operations, and Senior Director of Strategy, Finance, and Operations. Educational qualifications include an MBA in Finance and General Management from Columbia Business School and a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
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Kura Labs
Kura Labs is an online academy that provides free advanced training and job placement in Cloud Infrastructure, SRE and DevOps engineering roles at Fortune 1000 and VC-backed startups for aspiring engineers from under-resourced communities across the U.S. The 500+ hours of live interactive instruction from leading industry practitioners entail extensive individual and group-based work streams building automated deployment pipelines for enterprise software applications as well as scalable cloud infrastructure. Key Competencies Include: 1. Establishing proficiency in Linux environments with extensive use of BASH and Python to automate core processes involving resource provisioning, monitoring, security, and scaling. 2. Building and scaling automated software deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Docker (ECS), Kuberntes (EKS), Helm, and CircleCI to provision micro-service applications. 3. Monitoring, trouble-shooting and remediating application and infrastructure issues and incidents using DataDog, CloudWatch, and Splunk. 4. Building, securing, and deploying N-tier micro-service infrastructure and VPCs (multiple AZs, subnets, gateways, load balancers, APIs, application servers, databases) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, and Keeper. 5. Leveraging Lambda and Fargate and other serverless components to selectively manage dynamic scaling of various capabilities based on business trade-off analysis.