Hello, I’m Vincent Marcus, a seasoned IT Director with over 20 years of experience in the FinTech industry. My expertise lies in optimizing IT systems and processes for maximum reliability, performance, and efficiency. I am particularly passionate about leveraging cloud technologies, modernizing legacy systems, and implementing best practices for incident management and DevOps.

I am dedicated to building and leading high-performing teams that deliver exceptional results.

In my free time, I like to stay in shape by riding my Peloton and rucking. I also enjoy networking and sharing my knowledge with my peers in the IT industry.

Key Skills and Experiences:

  • Cloud Migration: Proven ability to migrate complex IT environments from on-premise data centers to AWS, leveraging cloud-native technologies and best practices.
  • Legacy System Modernization: Experience modernizing legacy systems using containerization, serverless architectures, and Kubernetes to improve performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Observability and Monitoring: Expertise in implementing robust monitoring solutions and building informative dashboards to gain deep insights into system performance and identify potential issues proactively.
  • Batch Workflow Management: Proven ability to implement and manage enterprise job schedulers to optimize batch processing and improve efficiency.
  • Incident Management: Experience developing and implementing standardized incident management workflows and playbooks to ensure timely and effective incident response.
  • DevOps and CI/CD: Deep understanding of DevOps principles and practices, strongly focusing on building and maintaining efficient CI/CD pipelines to support code and infrastructure delivery.
  • Automation: Passionate about automating routine tasks and processes to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and free up resources for strategic initiatives.

Recent Achievements:

  • Successfully led the migration of a large-scale legacy application to AWS.
  • Collaborated on developing and implementing strategies that resulted in a 30% reduction in major incidents in 2021, a 10% reduction in 2023, and are on track to produce a 21% reduction in 2024
  • Embraced and encouraged GitOps and InnerSource efforts with 989 personal contributions in 2022 and 863 personal contributions in 2023
  • Built and maintained efficient CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams, significantly increasing deployment frequency and reducing time to market.

Professional Recognition:

  • Employee of the Quarter
  • Trusted Technology Leader
  • Member of the President’s Club (twice)
  • Patriotic Employer recognized by the Department of Defense

Hot Takes:

  • The movie Die Hard is both a Christmas film and a reboot of Alien but from the perspective of the Xenomorph
  • Dragons, with six limbs, the ability to shoot explosive chemicals (bombardier beetle), and an exoskeleton, are more closely related to insects than lizards
  • The Truman Show was a prequel to The Matrix

Things I am terrible at:

  • Making coffee (I can drink it like a pro, though)
  • Remembering names (sorry, it’s not personal)
  • Keeping plants alive