April Rieger
Senior Software Engineer at Notch8
Chula Vista, California, United States
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Top SchoolApril Rieger is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chula Vista with a strong blend of full-stack development and platform engineering honed over a 12+ year technical journey and six years in focused engineering roles. She architects cloud-native systems, automates infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and runs Kubernetes-backed deployments while streamlining CI/CD with GitHub Actions to make delivery predictable and developer-friendly. April has led cross-project migrations and cost-saving operational consolidations—most notably orchestrating cluster decommissions that saved roughly $75K—demonstrating a knack for both technical detail and strategic impact. Her background in design and teaching informs a pragmatic emphasis on developer experience, documentation, and mentoring, bridging product and infrastructure teams. A former Navy leading petty officer, she brings disciplined program management and training expertise to high-pressure production environments. She’s passionate about inclusive collaboration and building infrastructure that “just works,” combining hands-on coding with platform stewardship.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Graphic and Web Design, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Graphic and Web Design at The Art Institute of California-San DiegoCertificate of Completion of Full Stack Bootcamp Full Stack Web Development, Certificate of Completion of Full Stack Bootcamp Full Stack Web Development at LEARN AcademyAssociate's degree Business Administration and Management General, Associate's degree Business Administration and Management General at Kaplan University
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Github Skills (74)
vms10
hydra10
open-access10
vagrant10
foundation10
github-ci10
markdown9
laravel9
manifold9
php9
multi-tenant9
rails9
blacklight9
nodejs9
documentation9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aprilrieger/Exercises_RoR_Dev_Course_Udemy
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
The various exercises, notes, and many questions along the way as i take the Complete Ruby on Rails Developer Course on Udemy to strength and grow as a developer.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
ruby-on-railsnotesrailsrubystrength
notch8/actions
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
Github CI Actions Repo
Contributions:49 releases, 53 reviews, 45 commits in 3 months
ci-actionsgithub-cicontinuous-integration
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