Mina West

Infrastructure Engineer at Elastic

Infrastructure Engineer at ElasticSeattle, WA · America/Los_Angeles11 yrs · IC5

ContactedColdReferralActively lookingPermanent resident

AI match score

90/ 100

Strong

Last touched2mo ago

OwnerRae Iverson

Comp expectation$371,180–$437,588

Flight riskmedium

Current role

Infrastructure Engineer · Apr 2024—Present (2 yr)

Elastic

Data · enterprise · Team of 9

Owned headcount, roadmap, and delivery for the team.

Drove MTTR from incident to recovery down sharply
MTTR −60% quarter-over-quarter
Introduced on-call guardrails, paging hygiene, and runbook automation; increased weekend uptime to 99.99%.
Shipped a new multi-region Postgres topology
RPO brought from 15s to sub-second
Designed and rolled out logical-replication-based failover with read-router; passed two GameDays.
Cut AWS spend through a right-sizing campaign
−$47M annualized
Built a cost-attribution dashboard, partnered with teams on instance-family migrations, tracked to plan.

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