Jeff Fairchild
Lead DevOps Engineer at Crisis Text Line
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Fairchild is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated production systems and partnering closely with development teams to move at high velocity. He has led SRE and DevOps efforts at Crisis Text Line and Betterment, driving uptime, cost optimization, and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Vault, and AWS services. His background spans hands-on scripting and development (Ruby, Python, Bash, Java/Groovy) as well as earlier roles in QA and test automation, giving him a pragmatic focus on observability, repeatable releases, and testable infrastructure. Jeff is comfortable across the full lifecycle—from writing deployment playbooks and IaC to designing APIs and white-box testing—and often automates workflows others treat as manual. He pairs Columbia-trained CS fundamentals with a history of scaling systems in mission-driven and consumer finance environments, and prefers to “automate everything,” turning operational friction into reproducible code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
English
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Github Skills (62)
kubectl10
trend10
mkdocs10
templating10
gcp9
drone-ci9
aws9
go9
documentation9
datadog8
aws-cli8
command-line-interface8
material-design8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jfairchild/jenkins_monitor
Feb 2017 - Feb 2026
Monitor status of jenkins EC2 nodes
Contributions:10 reviews, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 years 1 month
jenkins
CrisisTextLine/CrisisTrends
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Crisis Text Line's public-facing trend site
Contributions:36 reviews, 12 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years
trendcrisis
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