Jerod Culpepper
Platform Engineer
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerod Culpepper is a Platform Engineer with four years of hands-on DevSecOps experience building and securing cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on platform work at Rise8. His career path includes progressive DevSecOps roles across defense and commercial sectors—SAIC, Defense Unicorns, and Privateer Space—where he honed Kubernetes-centric automation and secure deployment practices. Based in Carlsbad, California, he combines a CS degree from Cal State San Marcos with practical experience mentoring as an embedded systems TA and supporting production teams. Known for a pragmatic "Kubernetes go brrr" approach, Jerod pairs velocity with an emphasis on operational security and reproducible tooling for teams operating in high-assurance environments.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at California State University San Marcos
Github Skills (89)
bitnami10
consul10
internal-developer-platform10
istio10
microservices10
cloud-native10
k8s10
opa10
charts10
kubernetes-operator10
meshery10
helm10
golang10
webassembly10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cpepper96/meshery
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
Meshery, the service mesh management plane
Contributions:93 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 5 months
golangmeshmesherysmpservice-mesh-management
cpepper96/meshery.io
Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
Site for Meshery, the multi-mesh manager
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
meshsmpkubernetesmulti-mesh-managermeshery
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