Summary
Arlis Halcomb is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD and cloud infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams. He has driven large-scale migrations and platform builds — from datacenter moves to Azure/AWS, to managing Slack’s company-wide GitHub Enterprise and zero-downtime Chef 17 upgrades for GovSlack. Comfortable across Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Chef, and automation with PowerShell and Ruby, he pairs operational rigor with a track record of reducing build times and automating manual tasks. Now at DigitalOcean after a multi-year tenure at Slack, he focuses on resilient build and deployment systems that scale across security-sensitive environments. Known for owning end-to-end delivery and on-call escalation across time zones, he also holds an AWS Solutions Architect – Associate cert and a BBA in Computer Information Systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems Minor in Network and Information Systems Security, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Computer Information Systems Minor in Network and Information Systems Security at University of Northern Colorado