Jen Reed
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at GetInsured
Hastings, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Reed is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience designing cloud platforms that scale, currently leading the next-generation AWS architecture at GetInsured from her base in Hastings, Michigan. She specializes in automated, cloud-native deployments—driving EKS Kubernetes workloads with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD to deliver repeatable, auditable infrastructure as code. Jen builds end-to-end observability stacks using Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry to ensure reliability and performance at scale. Her background in computer networking informs a pragmatic approach to resilience, security, and operational efficiency across distributed systems. Known for translating complex infrastructure requirements into streamlined CI/CD and IaC pipelines, she balances hands-on engineering with architecture-level decision making. Colleagues rely on her to turn sprawling cloud initiatives into maintainable, production-ready platforms.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Science, Computer Networking, Bachelors of Science, Computer Networking at Davenport UniversityJenison High School
Github Skills (183)
python10
high-availability10
automation10
kubespray10
paas10
k8s10
ansible-role10
ssh10
bare-metal10
continuous-testing10
charts10
kubernetes-cluster10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
ansible10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ServerNinja/HomeSchoolCPlusCplus2021
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ServerNinja/kubernetes-vagrant
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 years
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