AWS Step Functions / 2026
Alarm infrastructure and deployment
I moved Step Functions alarms from manual generation to managed deployment pipelines. The work consolidated 1,016 managed alarm resources into 75 and removed at least 446 duplicate notification paths.
Deployment and ownership
Alarm changes depended on manual generation and refreshes. I owned the migration to pipeline-managed deployment, including the design, rollout, drift detection, and rollback process.
I consolidated 1,016 per-service managed resources into 75 resources organized by region and deployment stage. I completed the commercial rollout in June 2026 and extended pipeline management to additional isolated environments over the summer.
Duplicate notifications
I introduced regional aggregate paging and retired legacy per-service notification paths after the aggregates were active. Across the shipped rollout, the cleanup removed at least 446 duplicate ticket actions and notification paths.
The cleanup removed duplicate notification routes while keeping the underlying monitoring in place.
Build performance and review
I cached repeated alarm construction and configuration lookups, then parallelized generation with a serial fallback if a worker or validation check failed.
The verified full release completed in 235.5 seconds. A separate artifact-only review target completed in 188 seconds. Serial and parallel runs produced the same 440 generated resource files byte for byte.
I also added daily reconciliation to restore source-controlled definitions after manual drift and snapshots that let engineers review generated changes.
Technologies
Deployment pipelines · Monitoring · Ruby · Infrastructure as code · Parallel processing