Forrest Shields
DevOps Engineering Manager at Edisen
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Shields is a DevOps Engineering Manager with over eight years of focused experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and automation for production-grade SaaS. He leads an international DevOps team at Edisen, driving CI/CD, packaging, and deployment reliability while deepening cross-environment stability across prod, QA, and dev. Forrest pairs hands-on expertise in AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation) and containerization with pragmatic security and compliance practices, having remediated pen-test findings through automation. His background ranges from running his own web services business to directing enterprise infrastructure programs, giving him a rare mix of strategic planning, budgeting, and technical execution. Known for quickly grasping new technologies, he excels at translating business needs into resilient, auditable systems and accelerating cloud adoption without disruptive code changes.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AA, Liberal Arts, AA, Liberal Arts at Oakton CollegeBS, Information Systems, BS, Information Systems at Elmhurst University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (61)
aws-cdk10
aws9
azure9
packer9
docker8
vagrant8
docker-compose8
linux8
development-kit7
microsoft7
docker-image7
golang7
microsoft-azure7
terraform7
aws-sdk7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fshields/aws-cdk-intro-workshop
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Introduction to the AWS CDK - Workshop
Contributions:9 pushes, 11 branches in 4 days
workshopcdkaws-cdkaws
fshields/packer
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
platformslinuxpackerdockermachine-images
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