Barry Britt
DevOps Engineer Lead at Athene
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Britt is a DevOps engineering leader with over two decades in IT and more than a decade focused on production DevOps, cloud, and container ecosystems. He progressed from hands-on Linux systems administration in higher education to architecting campus-wide infrastructure and security programs supporting tens of thousands of users. Barry designs and automates hyper-converged, IaC-driven platforms and has delivered private GitHub Actions runners on AWS EKS that bridge cloud and on-prem workflows. He mentors and trains engineers in practical Linux and research/HPC use, and is converting that curriculum into an online self-paced course. Comfortable operating at both tactical and strategic levels, he blends deep Unix/Linux expertise with a track record of shipping reproducible, SCM-driven infrastructure. Based in Ames, Iowa, he brings a pragmatic focus on automation, security, and developer-facing products that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Music Computer Science, BS Music Computer Science at Union UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (21)
linux9
windows9
macos8
scientific-computing8
python8
hpc8
build-tools7
compiler6
spack6
ansible-role6
ansible5
kerberos5
centos2
ubuntu2
rhel2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ISU-Ansible/ansible-samba
Dec 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
ISU-Ansible/ansible-kerberos
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Kerberos ansible role for installation and configuration
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
ansible-rolekerberos
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