Summary
Jackson Porter is a Senior DevOps and SRE practitioner with 8 years of hands-on experience building resilient, automated cloud platforms and developer tooling across startups and product teams. He combines deep expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Python/Go, and CI/CD with a track record of managing shared cloud infrastructure, access workflows, and SDLC automation for teams at companies like Route, Upbound Group, and Procurement Sciences AI. As a former CTO and long-time contractor, he blends technical leadership, people management, and direct code contributions to align engineering operations with business strategy. A vocal open-source advocate who treats platform work as product work, he favors efficiency, observability, and seamless developer experience over brittle solutions. Based in Orem, Utah, he also brings a background in mentorship and operations from roles ranging from education to small-business IT, which informs his pragmatic, team-first approach.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Snow College
High School Diploma General Education, High School Diploma General Education at Murray High School