Summary
Elliott Freis is a senior systems engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a long track record of evolving from hands-on data center and networking work to cloud-first infrastructure and DevOps. He specializes in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, auto-scaling and automation, having designed production AWS architectures, built ground-up CI/CD for Lambdas and containers, and led developer experience teams. Elliott is pragmatic under pressure, using a "zoom in and out" troubleshooting approach to resolve incidents quickly, and he takes pride in mentoring engineers and creating systems that can effectively “write him out of a job.” His career spans startups to established platforms, with repeated success migrating legacy environments to secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. An early Unix convert, he still combines low-level systems instincts with modern serverless and automation tooling.
3 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Diablo Valley College