Atom Powers
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAtom Powers is a Senior Systems Reliability Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and automating large-scale infrastructure for enterprises, currently supporting dozens of applications across thousands of servers at The Walt Disney Company. He specializes in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automated monitoring, and test-driven operations, driving stability improvements via Chef, Terraform, Rundeck, ServerSpec/InSpec, Graphite, and DataDog. A pragmatic mentor and coach, he builds team capability through training programs and best-practice documentation while still contributing code and automation himself. His background spans startups to global IT leadership—having led a global IT team at DigiPen and implemented big-data and containerized test suites at Globys—so he couples operational rigor with organizational coaching. Notably, he treats systems like software: instrumented, testable, and continuously improved, and he enjoys translating that philosophy into tangible stability and deployment reliability gains.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer and Network Security, Certificate, Computer and Network Security at University of WashingtonTechnical, Computer Service, Technical, Computer Service at Clover Park Technical CollegeNA, Economics & Computer Science, NA, Economics & Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of TechnologyNA, General, NA, General at Tacoma Community CollegeNA, General, NA, General at City University of SeattleBS Network Management, Networking, BS Network Management, Networking at DeVry University
Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apowers/home
Jun 2013 - Jul 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 44 pushes in 3 years 1 month
apowers/KSPresearch
Jul 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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