Heath Lord
Cloud DevOps Engineer at Snowflake
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolHeath Lord is a Cloud DevOps Engineer with over 25 years of systems and software experience and a 15+ year focus on build, release, and configuration management. He has shipped firmware and integrated complex systems across UAV, aerospace, cellular, and security/anti-tamper domains, blending low-level engineering with large-scale release automation. A Purdue ECE graduate, Heath has driven multi-team integrations at Motorola and led build/release platforms for Crunchy Data before joining Snowflake, demonstrating deep expertise in coordinating cross-functional deliveries. He brings a practical mix of hands-on debugging, automated controls, and secure build practices, and is comfortable navigating both embedded firmware constraints and cloud-native CI/CD at scale.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (71)
pgo10
postgresql10
high-availability10
disaster-recovery10
database-management10
operator10
thin10
kubernetes-operator10
scale10
tile-server10
postgres-operator10
checksum10
database10
kubernetes10
data-infrastructure10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
crunchyheath/crunchy-containers
Sep 2016 - Feb 2022
Docker containers for managing PostgreSQL by Crunchy Data
Contributions:41 pushes, 38 branches in 5 years 5 months
containersdockerpostgrescrunchypostgresql
crunchyheath/pg_featureserv
Apr 2020 - Jan 2024
Lightweight RESTful Geospatial Feature Server for PostGIS in Go
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
golanggeospatialrestfulpostgisserver
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