Colby Bookout
System Development Engineer II at Bookout Ventures
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColby Bookout is a systems development engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience and over seven years architecting resilient IT systems at Amazon, specializing in Windows configuration and externalized, domain-less vendor networks. He builds scalable automation—using PowerShell, Python, React/TypeScript, and AWS serverless services—to remotely bootstrap, configure, and manage hundreds of servers and to return ownership of vendor systems to maintenance technicians. Colby has repeatedly led small engineering teams through management transitions to deliver mission-critical projects on aggressive timelines, including modernizing a print image delivery system under a 45-day deadline and supporting global launches of 15 production centers. He practices Infrastructure as Code (PowerShell DSC, TypeScript CDK) and has a track record of converting manual, vendor-managed processes into self-service, auditable platforms that reduce operational toil. Based in Dallas, he also runs a GPU compute rental operation, applying his systems reliability mindset to maintain >99% uptime across deployed hardware. His blend of hands-on scripting, cloud-native design, and uncommon expertise in non-traditional vendor topologies makes him effective at solving edge-case infrastructure problems that break conventional playbooks.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Coppell High SchoolHighschool, Highschool at Cistercian PreparatoryBachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (200)
ssa10
subtitle10
automatic9
webapp9
websocket9
vapoursynth9
responsive9
makers9
docker9
monitor9
socket-io9
3d-printer9
vtt9
zebra8
youtube8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
begna112/bvsfunc
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
begna112's VapourSynth-related functions and scripts.
Contributions:53 commits, 10 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 5 months
scriptvapoursynthpython-3aiopython3
begna112/docker-samba
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Samba Docker image based on Alpine Linux
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
dockerfilesambadocker-imagelinuxalpine-linux
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