Bradford Dabbs
Senior Manager - Platform Engineering
Kearney, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarBradford Dabbs is a Senior Manager of Platform Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and automating resilient infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. He has progressed from systems and security roles in the Missouri National Guard to leading platform and SRE teams at Phaidra, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and cloud providers. Bradford has designed training and threat-emulation ranges and automated multi-site Elastic Stack deployments, blending operational rigor with teaching and curriculum design. He consistently drives automation-first solutions—automating deployments, testing, and incident response workflows—to reduce toil and increase reliability. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and people leader, he brings a history of architecting production systems for security-conscious organizations and translating that knowledge into repeatable programs. Based in Kearney, Missouri, he also maintains an active GitHub presence, reflecting ongoing personal investment in tooling and automation.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (113)
python10
rhel10
automation10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
ansible-role10
ssh10
portable10
network-configuration10
automated-deployment10
ansible10
csv10
observability10
jinja210
toml10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bndabbs/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
bndabbs/ansible-elasticsearch
May 2017 - Feb 2021
Ansible playbook for Elasticsearch
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
ansibleansible-playbookplaybookelasticsearchtower
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