Jimmy Lipham
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Lipham is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 20 years of experience building cloud-native, resilient systems and hardware products from concept to production. As Director of DevOps & SRE at The Savings Group he led a migration off a 20-year CRM to a containerized, horizontally scalable platform, achieving 99.999% uptime while instituting SOC2 practices, observability, and disaster recovery. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to notable open-source projects like cert-manager with AWS Route53 DNS01 improvements—with product-minded entrepreneurship as owner of Pinlights and 86Pixels, designing consumer hardware, OTA update systems, and Unity3D amusement software. Fluent across infrastructure, backend APIs, data warehouses, and supply-chain automation, he pairs an MBA in MIS with deep technical craft to translate business needs into secure, performant, and testable systems. An avid tinkerer and taco-lover, he brings a practical maker’s mentality to large-scale reliability challenges.
20 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management Information Systems, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management Information Systems at University of Georgia - Terry College of BusinessBachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
certificate10
go10
aws10
dns10
acme10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
secret-management9
tls128
crt8
mtls8
libtls8
letsencrypt8
tls138
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily focused on enhancing the integration of the cert-manager project with AWS Route53 for DNS01 challenges. They implemented features allowing access key IDs to be pulled from Kubernetes secrets, added validations to prevent misconfiguration of credentials, and refined the API to make its usage more clear. They also wrote unit tests to verify the correct handling of access key IDs from secrets and ensured the prioritization of access keys when both literal and secret-based configurations are present.
cert-managerletsencryptssltlscertificates
Compy/kernel-p2k
Apr 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
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