August Schwer
DevOps Manager at Mid Oregon Credit Union
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAugust Schwer is a DevOps leader with 13 years of experience building resilient, cost-effective cloud infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices across startups and larger enterprises. He has a proven track record of scaling systems (Socure: 4M/month to 4M/day), cutting cloud spend (saved $165K at Voltron), and accelerating delivery (200% faster deployments via GitHub Actions migrations). Comfortable across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and IaC, he blends technical execution with process design to strengthen compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FIPS) and operational rigor. He excels at growing and mentoring teams, aligning engineering roadmaps with business KPIs, and instituting measurable improvements in reliability and observability. Based in Bend, Oregon, he also invests in the local tech community as a co-organizer of the Deschutes Tech Guild. A detail that often surprises peers: he combines hands-on systems work with program-level budgeting and promotion cycles, delivering both technical and people-side outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Sonoma State University
Github Skills (46)
nagios9
hubot9
docker9
pagerduty8
go8
kubernetes8
rabbitmq7
scheduling7
react6
chat6
client-library6
management5
espn5
keybase5
kubernetes-monitoring5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
augieschwer/chef-cookbook-heka
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 5 months
cookbookchefagent
augieschwer/btrfs
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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