Joe Dickens
DevOps Engineer at Knock
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Dickens is a DevOps engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure to keep applications reliably running behind the scenes. He has a strong background in IaC and automation, having contributed Terraform-based infrastructure and deployment tooling to projects like Rhino Security Labs' CloudGoat, a well-known "vulnerable by design" AWS training tool. At Knock and prior startups and game and web companies, he’s focused on automating deployments, key management, and environment configuration to reduce toil and surface-level incidents. Joe’s work often blends security-conscious practices—PGP key automation and IP whitelisting—with pragmatic engineering that makes systems quietly resilient. He brings hands-on systems and web development experience from early roles and even a stint as a small business owner, which informs a practical, user-focused approach to reliability. Based in the United States, he’s the kind of engineer whose success is measured by the absence of emergencies.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kentucky
Github Skills (11)
infrastructure-as-code10
terraformer10
automation10
automations10
aws10
aac10
terraform10
bash9
encryption8
git6
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RhinoSecurityLabs/cloudgoat
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
CloudGoat is Rhino Security Labs' "Vulnerable by Design" AWS deployment tool
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the infrastructure-as-code aspects of the CloudGoat project. They focused on setting up and configuring the AWS environment using Terraform. Their work included deploying resources, managing keys, creating PGP keys for encryption, and automating the deployment and destruction processes. They also implemented an argument to whitelist an IP address and made changes to the Terraform files to handle cloud environment configuration.
vulnerableaws-deploymentdeploymentsecuritydeployment-tool
knockrentals/monitor-rabbitmq
Oct 2019 - May 2021
AWS Cloudwatch for rabbitmq
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aws-cloudwatchcloudwatchrabbitmqaws
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