Summary
Heath Lilley is a Cloud Platform Engineer III with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and modernizing enterprise systems, currently focused on cloud platform work at Crown Castle. He blends software engineering, SRE, and DevOps — managing on-prem Kubernetes with Rancher, containerized application lifecycles, and automation using Python, Bash, Docker, Jenkins, and observability tools like Dynatrace and Splunk. His background includes full-stack Java and Angular development, large-scale batch processing, and driving DVCS and automation adoption across teams. Based in Pennsylvania, he runs a homelab experimenting with Python, Vagrant, Rancher, and Nginx, favoring practical systems work over algorithmic puzzles. Colleagues rely on him for cross-team coordination, incident triage, and pragmatic refactors that improve reliability and developer velocity.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Programming, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Programming at Westmoreland County Community College