Jacob Sanders
Senior DevOps Engineer, IV at Spectrum
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Sanders is a Senior DevOps Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building and standardizing cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and VMware from Denver. He specializes in GitLab-driven GitOps/GitSecOps, operating and automating large Kubernetes fleets (150+ clusters across 60+ teams) and developing operators and policies with Golang, Operator SDK, Kubebuilder, and Kyverno. Jacob has led migrations from legacy CI systems to GitLab CI/CD, implemented IaC at scale with Terraform and Crossplane, and enabled self-service EKS provisioning via Cluster API—bridging developer productivity with strong security and compliance practices. Known for pragmatic automation, he also maintains broad observability and artifact workflows (Datadog, Splunk, Artifactory) and has a history of building internal tools in Go and TypeScript to reduce operational toil. His background ranges from low-level systems and VPS automation to PHI-sensitive healthcare environments, giving him a rare mix of platform engineering depth and security-minded operational experience.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (57)
javascript10
nodejs-server10
expressjs10
web-framework10
nodejs10
server10
router9
path-to-regexp9
user-interface9
declarative9
regular-expression9
react9
frontend9
nodegit8
typescript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-hybrid/delta
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:152 pushes, 2 branches, 94 tags in 6 months
cloud-hybrid/factory
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
CDK Transformations
Contributions:5 PRs, 162 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
cdkaws-cdktransformationsaws
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