Fred Damstra
Site Reliability Engineer at CrowdStrike
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Damstra is a Site Reliability Engineer and cybersecurity practitioner with over 25 years of experience designing and operating secure, highly available networks and cloud platforms. He has led architecture for national financial networks protecting over $12B in member assets, built petabyte-scale Splunk and large managed security service deployments on AWS, and driven FedRAMP-ready migrations to AWS GovCloud. Known as a builder who automates compliance and operations, he combines deep network engineering (global WANs, DMVPN, Nexus fabrics) with DevSecOps skills using Python and serverless patterns. Based in Grand Rapids, he blends hands-on scripting and systems work from his early UNIX/Perl roots with modern SRE practices at CrowdStrike, and often partners with auditors, pen testers, and government teams to translate security requirements into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Forest Hills Northern High SchoolUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Art, Computer Science: Theory and Analysis, Bachelor of Art, Computer Science: Theory and Analysis at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (140)
parser10
postgresql10
python10
gogs10
terraform10
infrastructure10
stream-processing10
remote-execution10
data-pipeline10
terraform-module10
monitoring10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
pipeline10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fdamstra/OpenTX-Benedikt-Voicepack
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
fdamstra/python_multithreaded_socket_logger
Apr 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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