Chandler Long
DevOps Engineer at Outside Analytics + SMX
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolChandler Long is a DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building and hardening cloud-native systems from prototype to production, currently based in Boulder, Colorado. He specializes in containerization, Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps, and CI/CD automation, having decomposed monoliths into microservices and standardized deployments with Helm, ArgoCD, and GitLab pipelines. Chandler has driven observability and security improvements—implementing Prometheus/Tempo/Loki stacks, DAST/SAST scans, and reproducible base images—while automating infrastructure provisioning with Terraform. He brings a mix of hands-on development (Python, Go, React) and platform ownership from startup CTO to enterprise DevOps roles, with a proven ability to shorten release cycles and scale governance across hundreds of teams. Notably, he led the operationalization of a missile-threat visualization system and managed internal package ecosystems and ephemeral test environments to accelerate integration testing. Chandler pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with disciplined engineering practices, making him effective at mentoring teams and bridging product needs with secure, observable infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at College of Charleston
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Github Skills (16)
json6
google-calendar-api6
ios6
javascript6
mixins6
firebase-realtime-database6
firebase6
iphone6
mern2
react2
expressjs2
visualize2
mongodb2
mean-stack2
mongoose2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ctlong12/ShapeDrop
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
ctlong12/InteractiveGrid
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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