Jamie Sammons
Infrastructure Engineer III at Principal Financial Group
Des Moines Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJamie Sammons is a senior software engineer specializing in reliable, scalable infrastructure and secure enterprise systems. Based in Des Moines, Iowa, he currently engineers at Liferay, automating customer upgrades with Docker Compose, enhancing observability with Glowroot, and validating Fedora-based testing. He blends hands-on Kubernetes with a modern GitOps toolset, running a Talos Linux cluster, FluxCD, and Terraform to streamline infrastructure deployments. In prior Liferay roles, he helped migrate developer portals to SaaS and built Python dashboards to track community metrics, while contributing across developer relations and technical marketing. Across CDS Global, he delivered 24x7 Linux support for hundreds of servers, architected PCI-compliant e-commerce hosting, and automated deployments with Puppet, Kickstart, and virtualization platforms like VMware ESXi and Proxmox. A dedicated homelab enthusiast, he continually experiments with new tooling to turn complex requirements into practical, auditable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Hills Community College
Github Skills (6)
liferay6
liferay-dxp6
echo4
mysql2
wedeploy2
elasticsearch2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sammonsjl/liferay-docker
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
sammonsjl/liferay-portal
Jul 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:39 PRs, 185 pushes, 246 branches in 7 years 8 months
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