Joel Sticha
Principal Engineer, TLCP at Optum
Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Sticha is a Principal Engineer at Optum, guiding DevOps and CI/CD strategy within TLCP, driven by integrity, curiosity, relationships, innovation, and performance. He steers delivery teams toward enterprise offerings to reduce technical debt and owns the department branching strategy, quality gates, and GitHub status checks. In his Information Technology Architect role, he builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines for 300+ micro-UIs and microservices, with security scans and OpenShift/Kubernetes IaC, and runs an Elastic-Stack for reporting and IaC backups. He created and continually improves the GitHub Template Repository used to seed new projects with preconfigured Splunk logging, Vault/Spring Cloud Vault configs, dynamic certificates, and the latest Java and SpringBoot versions. He promotes event-driven and asynchronous architectures and actively documents and enables adoption of Spring Cloud, Kafka, WebFlux, and related tooling across teams. Based in Minnetonka, Minnesota with about a decade of experience, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership to deliver reliable, scalable systems while mentoring others and driving continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer and Information Technology, French, Senior, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer and Information Technology, French, Senior at Minnesota State University, Mankato
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (192)
spring-security10
client-library10
buster10
api10
github-api10
github-api-v310
oai10
json-api10
java10
springfox10
spring-data-rest10
spring-boot10
spring10
java-api10
relic9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ranma2913/ranma2913.github.io
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
My Public Website
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches, 6 comments in 4 years 4 months
ranma2913/splunk-library-javalogging
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
Splunk logging appenders for popular Java Logging frameworks
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
gatlingappendersloggerloggingsplunk
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