Jeff Laplante
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Arlington, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff LaPlante is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of systems and DevOps experience, currently shaping the infrastructure behind high-profile Disney properties like Disney.com and StarWars.com. He combines deep operational expertise across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, OpenStack, CloudStack) with hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Golang, Ruby, and central logging and CDN architectures. Jeff has led architecture projects migrating on-prem apps to containerized cloud environments and built company-wide Chef cookbook repositories and Logstash-based logging pipelines. A former Java developer turned SRE, he pairs application-level understanding with infrastructure design and prefers Unix-like environments over Windows. Based in Arlington, Washington, he also brings an unexpected creative streak from a past career in international photojournalism, which informs a pragmatic, design-minded approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Java Certificate, Java, Java Certificate, Java at University of WashingtonAAS, Electronics Engineering Technology, AAS, Electronics Engineering Technology at ITT Technical Institute
Spanish, French
Github Skills (41)
kubernetes10
docker10
graph10
storage10
etcd10
go10
ceph10
cloud-native10
docker-compose9
terraform9
infrastructure-as-code9
scheduling8
mesos8
golang8
kubernetes-monitoring7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jefflaplante/forecast
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Forecast Weather Dashboard for Waveshare 7.5" e-paper display
Contributions:80 commits, 6 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 month
weather-forecastraspberry-piforecastwavesharedashboard
jefflaplante/dockerfiles
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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