Bishop Bader
Principal, Platform Engineering
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBishop Bader is a Principal Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building automation-first, cloud-native infrastructure and developer workflows, currently leading platform efforts at the American Red Cross. He specializes in Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, GitLab CI/CD and data orchestration with Mage.ai, and pairs that with practical Python and PowerShell scripting to streamline operations and reduce toil. His background spans help desk through enterprise engineering roles, giving him a strong operational intuition for reliability and security in production systems. Based in Richmond, VA, he blends full-stack chops from a University of Richmond full-stack certification with hands-on infrastructure-as-code expertise to deliver repeatable, auditable platforms. Notably, he brings a practitioner’s perspective to platform design—favoring tools and automation that scale teams as well as systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, Full Stack Development, Certification, Full Stack Development at University of RichmondVirginia Commonwealth UniversityAssociate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at ECPI University
German, Norwegian
Github Skills (23)
transformation10
data-mesh9
pipeline9
data-transformation9
python8
sql8
machine-learning8
dbt8
spark8
data-quality8
artificial-intelligence8
data-science7
etl7
orchestration7
data-integration6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
the-archbishop/Word-Guess-Game
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
ssullivan14/CaseByCase
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 46 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 month
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