Gretchen Shelby-dormer
Cloud Operations Engineer
Joliet, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolGretchen Shelby-dormer is a Cloud Operations Engineer with eight years of experience automating and optimizing cloud and cross-functional workflows across AWS, GCP, and Azure. She has a track record of turning manual processes into scalable systems—reducing cloud access task time by 99.8% with a custom JIT access solution and driving routine content production at scale for a YouTube channel. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical teams, she combines data-driven investigation with empathy and active listening to surface durable improvements in engineering, sales, and customer success. She’s delivered cost savings, reclaimed storage through smarter transcoding, and introduced docs-as-code practices to keep documentation close to code. Based in Joliet, IL, she pairs hands-on Terraform, Pulumi, Python, and CI/CD work with mentorship and operational leadership. Ask her about the pandemic-era immigration detour she resolved—an experience that sharpened her resilience and stakeholder communication.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Chinese Language and Literature; International Studies, Bachelor’s Degree Chinese Language and Literature; International Studies at Miami University
Chinese, French, English
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Github Skills (111)
atlassian10
wrapper10
generator10
crowd9
golang9
api9
terraform9
jira9
bamboo9
confluence9
documentation9
credentials8
cloudinary8
rest8
linux8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gshel/semrush-cli
Nov 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:32 PRs, 46 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years
gshel/test
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:36 PRs, 71 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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