Jerry Aldrich
Site Reliability Engineer at Blockchain Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJerry Aldrich is a Site Reliability Engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating production systems across blockchain startups, exchanges, and enterprise consulting. He helped scale and secure services by deploying Vault on Kubernetes, authoring reusable Kubernetes and CI/CD components, and developing tooling in Go, Jsonnet, and Groovy. A long-time contributor and maintainer on InSpec, Jerry improved resource robustness, Windows performance, and cloud integrations—work that underpins widely used auditing tooling. He consults on DevOps transformations for organizations from startups to Fortune 10s and has hands-on experience deploying systems in regulated and air-gapped environments. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep operational discipline with developer empathy and a penchant for CTF challenges and DEF CON culture. He’s also principled about open source stewardship, hosting his code independently in protest of platform policies.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Psychology, Bachelor's Degree, Psychology at Missouri State University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
devops10
ruby10
security9
configuration-management9
yaml8
scripting7
script7
sh7
bash7
shell7
documentation6
auditing5
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
inspec/inspec
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
InSpec: Auditing and Testing Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:149 commits, 118 PRs, 414 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jerry primarily contributed to the enhancement of the `inspec/inspec` repository. They added support for package resource enhancements for `rpm_dbpath`, attributes file readability and multiple server support for the nginx_conf resource. They also improved error handling, fixed regressions, and provided documentation for the `package` and `x509_certificate` resources. The user also improved other resources, and implemented the correct `only_if` behaviour, with a focus on improving the robustness and user experience of the InSpec project.
testingauditinspecsecuritycompliance
jerryaldrichiii/garcon-de-chef-training
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:27 PRs, 34 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 5 months
trainingchefclassroomsterraform
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