George Pickering
Senior Backend Software Engineer at IBM
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Pickering is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and large-scale Kubernetes deployments at IBM. He blends hands-on coding in Python, Go, and Bash with operator-focused automation, runbooks, and production troubleshooting to keep complex pipelines and deployments reliable. A natural leader and maintainer (notably of codeplox-dev) who enjoys playful side projects, he looks for unconventional solutions to recurring problems and mentors teams through deployment and migration challenges. Based in the New York City area, he brings deep operational empathy from low-level system administration to high-level cloud orchestration, consistently turning messy production problems into repeatable, documented workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Clarkson University
English
Github Skills (200)
mkdocs10
serial-port10
shell-extension10
notify-send10
terminal-emulator10
pip10
clout10
packaging10
iterm9
yang9
to-do9
snake-case9
colorls9
riot-games-api9
jupyterhub9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bigpick/barelycompetent
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
Personal site - musings of CTF writeups, problems. code thoughts, and various day-day learnings.
Contributions:15 PRs, 84 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 11 months
draculathoughtsctfctftimeproblems
dracula/zsh-syntax-highlighting
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
🧛🏻♂️ Dark theme for zsh-syntax-highlighting
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
draculazsh-syntax-highlightingdark-themehighlightingdark
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