Fern Viridian
Staff DevOps Engineer at Milliman IntelliScript
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFern Viridian is a Staff DevOps Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure for startups and enterprise teams. They specialize in cloud-native migrations, cost optimization, and CI/CD—having led Heroku-to-AWS and large data migrations, and delivered a 40% reduction in AWS spend at BlackBerry. Equally comfortable reverse-engineering and hardening web applications, Fern has found zero-days in embedded and web systems and partnered closely with security and compliance teams on SOC2/HIPAA efforts. They excel at turning legacy stacks into containerized, automated platforms (Docker, Rancher, Terraform, Jenkins) and have deep hands-on experience with IAM and permissions automation. Known for pragmatic documentation and developer onboarding tooling, Fern combines a hacker’s curiosity with disciplined system administration to keep production systems stable at scale. Outside of day-to-day engineering, they’re an active advocate for better security practices and inclusive workplace initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Astoria High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityClatsop Community College
Github Skills (95)
terraform10
cert10
graph10
docker10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
container-management9
rancher9
terraform-module9
orchestration9
infrastructure9
hcl9
devops9
aws9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tozny/dockup
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Docker image to backup/restore your Docker container volumes to AWS S3, now built on Alpine
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 9 months
docker-imagevolumespagerdutydockerrestore
fernviridian/builditbreakit
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:60 commits, 1 push in 8 months
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