Jesse Collins
Principal DevOps Engineer at BOLD CITY BREWERY, LLC
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Collins is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in Florida with nearly two decades of IT experience and over a decade focused on DevOps, DevSecOps, and infrastructure automation. He designs and operates enterprise CI/CD platforms, shared pipeline libraries, and hardened VM/container images using GitLab CI, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Docker across AWS, Proxmox, and DigitalOcean. At Medtronic and prior roles at Florida Blue and Cigna he led toolchain rollouts (Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory), implemented shift-left security practices, and built repeatable IaC patterns and automation for large, regulated environments. He also runs DevOps and IT operations for a regional brewery, applying the same engineering rigor to customer-facing web services and creative features like a Beer Map for retail distribution. A former minor-league baseball player turned technologist, he combines hands-on engineering with long-term leadership in platform strategy and operational resilience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software Engineering at University of North Florida
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Github Skills (39)
debian9
ansible-role9
grunt-task8
hardening8
pci-dss7
steam6
ansible6
autorun6
overlay6
autohotkey6
artifactory5
closure4
java4
security4
api4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dbernaci/CIS-Debian10-Ansible
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Ansible role for Debian 10 CIS hardening
Contributions:22 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
pci-dssansiblecisansible-roleubuntu1804
jessejcollins/CIS-Debian10-Ansible
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Ansible role for Debian 10 CIS hardening
Contributions:37 pushes, 25 branches in 2 months
ansiblecisansible-roletowerdebian
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