Summary
Jaime Fournier is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale infrastructure across AWS, data centers, and Kubernetes environments. He currently manages a 500+ node Elasticsearch cluster ingesting 80 billion records per day at Cisco and has repeatedly reduced cost and complexity through pragmatic engineering, including co-writing a Logstash replacement and multiple Prometheus/Grafana exporters in Crystal. Jaime combines hands-on systems programming (Crystal, Ruby, Lua) with infrastructure-as-code expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD to deliver reliable, observable platforms. He has led DevOps teams, mentored engineers, and driven migrations—from Chef/Salt to Ansible and to container platforms—while maintaining security and compliance for high-throughput services. Notably, he built custom proxies and monitoring tooling that integrated Netdata, Datadog, and F5/VmWare imports to create a single source of truth for metrics. Based in Nampa, Idaho, Jaime brings a practical, cost-conscious mindset to scaling mission-critical systems and mentoring teams through change.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Blinn College