Summary
Brandon Wood is an infrastructure automation specialist and owner of Coldfoot Tech with 12 years of experience designing and managing cloud and on-prem systems across higher education and telecom environments. He combines hands-on DevOps leadership—from managing enterprise applications and infrastructure teams to engineering roles at GCI—with deep tooling expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware vRealize, and Bamboo. Comfortable coding across .NET, PowerShell, Python, Go, PHP, and JavaScript, he pairs software development skills with broad database and version-control experience (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Git, Subversion). Based in Anchorage, Alaska, he has a history of moving university and statewide systems toward automated, auditable operations. Known for “automating all the things,” he brings a practical, systems-first mindset that favors repeatable, observable platforms. His background spans hands-on execution and managerial oversight, making him effective both as a solo consultant and as a leader of cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Mathematics, BS Computer Science Mathematics at University of Alaska Anchorage