Customer-focused Technical Support professional (Tier 1/2) with strong de-escalation and clear communication skills, and a track record of faster first response, fewer escalations, and tighter SLAs. Comfortable handling high-throughput ticket queues, documenting fixes into KBs, and translating technical issues into plain language for non-technical users.
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- **Provided Tier 1 and Tier 2 support**, resolving
user-reported issues with CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes
environments, resulting in a **40% faster average response
time**.
- **Diagnosed and resolved 80% of configuration
errors** in Kubernetes deployments by automating data
fetching and validation, **reducing system downtime
by 40%** and improving reliability for end-users.
- **Reduced deployment-related support tickets by 66%**
by developing a CLI tool to automate Kubernetes
binary deployments, with documented troubleshooting
procedures that cut resolution time from 45 to 15
minutes.
- **Decreased configuration error escalations by 30%**
through dynamic probe defaults and created knowledge
base articles enabling Tier 1 support to resolve most
probe issues independently.
- **Authored clear, user-friendly documentation** that
translated complex technical processes into
step-by-step guides, **accelerating onboarding by
50%** and enabling non-technical stakeholders to
self-serve.
- **Collaborated with QA and DevOps teams** to document
root causes of startup failures in legacy systems,
implementing dynamic probes that **cut production
launch issues by 50%**.
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{{% resume/work-experience name="Red Hat"
title="Technical Support Engineer Intern (Tier 1/2)"
languages="Ticketing/Triage, Knowledge Base Writing, De-escalation"
date="May 2023 — Aug 2024" %}}
- Delivered **Tier 1/2 frontline support** for CI/CD & Kubernetes in a ticket queue; improved **first-response time by 40%** through better triage/routing.
- Performed **incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis**; automated data capture/validation that resolved **80% of config errors** and **reduced downtime by 40%**.
- Wrote **step-by-step knowledge-base articles** and troubleshooting flows that enabled Tier 1 to solve common probe issues, **cutting escalations by 30%**.
- Built a deployment **runbook** that standardized fixes and **reduced repeat contacts/tickets by 66%**; **shortened resolution from 45 → 15 minutes**.
- Kept users informed with **concise status updates**, set expectations, and **de-escalated frustrated stakeholders** by focusing on next steps and time to resolution.
- Documented fixes into **KBs/runbooks** for reuse.
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- **Provided direct user support** for a live NFT analytics
platform, resolving front-end filtering bugs and API
integration issues in real-time.
- **Developed a full-stack web application with PostgreSQL database** to analyze NFT rarity rankings, increasing market research efficiency by 80%.
- **Translated user requests into technical features**, implementing real-time PostgreSQL-powered filters that improved usability for non-technical traders.
- **Debugged and optimized API performance** under
load, reducing latency by 50% and enabling **3,000+
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{{% resume/project name="Rarity Surf"
languages="User Support, Bug Reproduction"
date="Mar 2025" show="true" %}}
- Provided **real-time user support** for a live analytics app (triage → reprogram → fix → follow-up) across UI filtering and API errors.
- **Translated user requests into fixes/features**, improving usability for non-technical traders; **reduced perceived latency by 50%** under load with targeted optimizations.
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