Coby Caldwell
DevOps Engineer at Zoom
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCoby Caldwell is a DevOps Engineer in San Diego with over a decade of hands-on experience blending software development, systems administration, and cybersecurity—anchored by 8 years of military service and an active Top Secret clearance. He has repeatedly accelerated delivery and hardened complex systems, for example converting a 7-day physical test install into an 8-hour Jenkins/Terraform/Ansible AWS deployment and running an auto-scaling Jenkins cluster that handles hundreds of daily jobs. Comfortable across Powershell, C#, Python, and Go, Coby focuses on security automation, automated testing, and deployment pipelines while working extensively with AWS, Ansible, Terraform, OpenShift, Docker, and Jenkins. He has a track record of turning manual compliance and auditing tasks into scalable automation—proving compliance for thousands of STIG items and generating Ansible playbooks from DoD STIG documents. A meticulous maintainer, he has contributed documentation fixes to high-profile projects like microsoft/PowerStig, improving codebase clarity and maintainability. He approaches systems holistically, anticipating failures and integrating disparate components into secure, high-performance solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Development at Western Governors University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
stig10
powershell10
autocorrect10
typos10
writers10
documentation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/PowerStig
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
STIG Automation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Coby's primary contribution to the `microsoft/powerstig` repository involves correcting numerous typos and grammatical errors within the project's comments and documentation. These changes span multiple files, including those related to module common functions, and configuration. The edits improve readability and clarity within the code, enhancing the project's overall maintainability. The user also added a copyright header to a data file.
windows-serverpythonpowershellstig-compliantpowershell-module
clcaldwell/covid_tracking
Apr 2020 - May 2022
covid_tracking
Contributions:8 PRs, 60 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 1 month
javascriptreactcovid-trackingtracking
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