Colby Goettel
Senior DevOps Engineer at Restaurant365
San Tan Valley, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolColby Goettel is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure and configuration management at scale, currently driving platform work at Restaurant365. He specializes in Chef, Puppet, and Terraform and has repeatedly modernized CI/CD and IaC workflows—at Cruise he led a five-nines migration and repo-splitting strategy while reworking pipelines to enable continuous delivery. Colby has strong cross-company consulting experience, from automating Ubuntu upgrades for thousands of systems to designing Kubernetes solutions and managing Puppet at 100k+ nodes, and he pairs technical delivery with documentation and training to improve team practices. Known for mentoring engineers and running guilds and tech talks, he blends hands-on scripting and ops with process leadership. Based in San Tan Valley, AZ, he holds a Master’s in Information Technology and brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, security automation, and measurable operational savings.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Technology, Master’s Degree Information Technology at Brigham Young University
English, classical hebrew, French, official aramaic (700-300 bce)
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Github Skills (70)
xetex10
typeset10
systemd-service9
upstart9
translation9
azure8
terraform8
terraform-provider8
azure-resource-manager8
windows7
javascript7
infrastructure7
linux7
resource-manager7
automation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cgoettel/bible
Oct 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:738 commits, 1 PR, 275 pushes in 4 years 4 months
typesettranslationxetexbiblia
cgoettel/recipes
Nov 2013 - Jun 2018
Contributions:65 commits, 23 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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