Andrew Ballman
Infrastructure Team Lead at Blockchain
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ballman is an Infrastructure Team Lead with eight years of experience applying DevOps principles to build and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems for fast-moving startups in San Francisco. His background in game development gives him a pragmatic, creative approach to tooling, build pipelines, and automation—skills he’s applied across AWS, RHEL/CentOS, Heroku, and CI systems to streamline deployments and incident response. He has led infrastructure efforts at Blockchain and Qualia and helped transform monolithic stacks into microservices while optimizing developer workflows and observability. Curious and analytical, he enjoys designing systems “at the right size” for the business and often finds elegant engineering trade-offs born from his game-dev roots.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Game Development, Bachelors Game Development at Full Sail University
Github Skills (62)
preprocessing10
amazon-ebs10
nginx10
csi10
ingress-controller9
kubernetes9
prometheus-exporter9
partitioning9
ocr9
docx9
pdf9
aws9
donut9
csi-driver9
ingress-nginx8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aballman/kops
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Kubernetes Operations (kops) - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
Contributions:7 releases, 16 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
kubernetes-deploymentinstallationgradeproduction-gradek8s
aballman/Bump-N-Tag-Version
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
GitHub Action program to increment version number and tag the same
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
version-numberrelease-managementshieldssemantic-versioningversioning
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