Emerson Veenstra
Site Reliability Engineer at Ludus
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolEmerson Veenstra is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Grand Rapids with 12 years of hands-on experience across DevOps, Linux administration, and web development. He has driven production-grade infrastructure and tooling at managed-hosting and SaaS companies, including launching Kinsta's managed Kubernetes offering and rebuilding their WordPress integration to remove legacy debt. Emerson combines systems-level expertise (custom Debian packaging, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana) with practical web dev skills, having built accessible, Core Web Vitals–compliant WordPress frameworks for clients. He’s comfortable automating at scale—authoring Ansible playbooks, a Buildbot CI pipeline, and containerized hosting platforms using LXC/Docker and SaltStack. Known for translating developer needs into operational solutions, he also brings experience in customer-facing support and cross-team communication that speeds feature delivery. Outside of ops, he’s kept a steady focus on measurable performance and accessibility improvements that benefit end users as well as engineers.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Grand Valley State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Gordon College
English
Github Skills (166)
python10
react-redux10
openstreetmap10
markdown10
cartography10
jinja210
policies10
irc-protocol10
tagging10
irc10
react-router-v410
freenode10
spam9
data-tagging9
ads9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scotradio/scotrad.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 4 years 1 month
freenode/web-7.0
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020
The freenode website, home to our blog, knowledge base and policies
Contributions:22 commits, 42 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years
freenodejinja2pythonknowledgeknowledge-base
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