Jared Kauppila
Principal Platform Engineer
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Kauppila is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience designing infrastructure-as-code and platform tooling to streamline developer and operations workflows, currently leading platform initiatives at Sentry. He specializes in IaC templating, provisioning, and configuration management, having built deployment pipelines with Jenkins, Terraform, and Chef and implemented centralized ELK-based logging. An active open-source contributor, Jared has improved widely used projects like Terragrunt and Chef Infra—adding version constraints, integration tests, and Windows-focused automation that bridge Unix/Windows behaviors. He brings deep Windows server and IIS experience alongside modern cloud-native practices, demonstrating a rare blend of legacy platform knowledge and forward-looking automation. Based in Stevens Point, WI, he pairs practical engineering with a steady focus on reliability and operational efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Networking and Systems Administration, BS Computer Networking and Systems Administration at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (33)
cookbook10
testing10
batchfile10
terraform10
java10
rabbitmq10
javas10
chef-client10
terraformer10
automation10
script10
go10
automation-testing10
message-broker10
iis10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/iis
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Development repository for the iis cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jared primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of IIS (Internet Information Services) using the `iis` cookbook. Their work included adding features such as environment variable configuration, and updating and testing application pool settings. They also implemented changes to module installation and management within the IIS environment, as well as fixing syntax issues in the code. The contributions centered on extending and refining the cookbook's capabilities.
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rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on modifying Windows batch scripts related to the RabbitMQ server. Their contributions centered around adding and modifying the execution of `rabbitmq-env.bat` in various scripts like `rabbitmq-server.bat`, `rabbitmqctl.bat`, and others. Furthermore, they implemented Windows batch file changes to mimic the behavior of *nix environment, configuration, and defaults scripts. This indicates a strong focus on environment configuration and build system support for the RabbitMQ server on Windows.
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