Denise Franke
DevOps Engineer at DeniseFranke.com
Port Charlotte, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenise Franke is a pragmatic DevOps engineer and architect with 8 years in formal DevOps roles and a software career stretching back to the late 1980s, combining deep Unix/network chops with modern IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud-native practices. She specializes in building secure, scalable, observable systems—championing test-first cultures, traceability, and automation to prevent long-term operational debt. Denise pairs hands-on skills in Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Python and Java with experience integrating IoT, digital twins and distributed architectures across public sector and enterprise engagements. Her background includes leading DevOps at Booz Allen Hamilton and senior engineering consulting at organizations like Nielsen, Monsanto and USDA, bringing consulting discipline to delivery and governance. Holding an MBA plus MS degrees in MIS and Supply Chain and multiple AWS professional certifications, she blends technical depth with business and operational insight. A longtime "friendly neighborhood" Unix/network app engineer, she uniquely stresses that human limits and code hygiene must drive process and tooling choices to achieve reliable scale.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at University of Missouri-Saint LouisMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Github Skills (16)
claims10
aem9
agile-development8
web-application8
ssm2
charts1
jenkins1
kubernetes1
github-webhooks1
github-oauth1
devops1
helm1
authentication1
oauth1
intranet1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DeniseFranke/franke-apollo-graphql-example
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Get re-acquainted with GraphQL by setting up an Apollo basic Endpoint and Client Example
Contributions:20 PRs, 13 pushes, 21 branches in 4 days
reactsettingapollographqlendpointapollo-server
DeniseFranke/simulator
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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