Buc Rogers
Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Project Lead at Freshpaint
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBuc Rogers is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on technologist with 10+ years focused on software development, SRE/DevOps, and test automation, now leading a team at Freshpaint. He combines deep cloud and infrastructure expertise (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, ArgoCD) with backend and front-end development skills in Golang, Python, TypeScript, React and SQL systems like PostgreSQL and Snowflake. Buc has repeatedly built platform teams and improved CI/CD, security hardening, and deployment automation across fintech, telecom, and analytics startups, and contributed DevOps improvements to high-profile repos such as MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation. Known for pragmatic agility and strong mentorship, he excels at helping small companies scale engineers and products while keeping delivery practical. Outside work he’s an avid paddleboarder and kayaker, reflecting a calm, persistence-focused approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Beloit College
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
automation10
windows-containers10
automations10
docker10
devops10
dockers10
postgresql9
sql-server9
ruby7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/Virtualization-Documentation
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Place to store our documentation, code samples, etc for public consumption.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 1 PR in 15 days
Contributions summary:Buc primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for Windows-based containerized applications. Their contributions involved creating and modifying PowerShell scripts for managing SQL Server Express and PostgreSQL within Docker containers. They also implemented scripts for handling Docker image management, specifically removing dangling images and configuring Ruby on Windows.
placecode-documentationconsumption
freshpaint-io/freshpaint-gtm-template
Apr 2023 - Jan 2026
Freshpaint's GTM template
Contributions:40 reviews, 81 PRs, 80 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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