Summary
Joe Grabenstein is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and operating highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms, primarily on Google Cloud. At Crux he has progressed from software and DevOps roles to leading infrastructure efforts that enable global data distribution to thousands of consumers and providers, focusing on observability, CI/CD, and platform reliability. He brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Istio, Airflow, and container runtimes, coupled with a Professional Cloud Architect certification and strong security and QA practice. Comfortable across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and a range of languages and databases, Joe blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation to reduce toil. Outside work he mixes technical curiosity with eclectic interests—from cars and crypto to playful GitHub persona—hinting at a practical engineer who values both precision and personality.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at California State University-Chico