Joe Block
Software Engineer at jiffinc
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoe Block is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over 8 years of hands-on experience designing and automating resilient Linux and cloud infrastructure, currently based in Denver. He has led configuration management migrations and automation efforts at companies like Castlight, Twilio, Zscaler, and Charter, often serving as the tech lead for Chef and resilience initiatives. Joe is an active open-source author—creator of tools such as Luggage, Miyamoto, Agamotto and Apgar—and maintains a Sysadmin Reading List to help onboard entry-level SREs. His work blends practical systems engineering (AMI pipelines, test-kitchen in Docker, health-check drivers) with clear documentation and training for cross-functional teams. Notably, he has repeatedly converted legacy puppet deployments to modern, testable Chef workflows and built tooling to ensure production parity for developer environments.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (56)
oh-my-zsh10
lscolors10
gcloud10
zshrc10
zsh10
gcp9
linux9
devops9
aws9
sre9
azure9
infrastructure9
k8s8
bash8
lambda-functions8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unixorn/docker-letsencrypt-dns
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Docker with Certbot + Lexicon to provide Let's Encrypt SSL certificates validated by DNS challenges
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
letsencryptssldnscertbotsecurity
unixorn/thoth-duplicacy
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Container for duplicacy and duplicacy-utils
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
containersduplicacy-utilsdockerutilsduplicacy
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