Joe Thompson
Consulting Engineer at Clarity Business Solutions, Inc
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Thompson is a consulting engineer with 10 years of focused experience in cloud-native practices, Kubernetes, containers, and automation across enterprise and startup environments. He has driven solutions and enablement at companies like HashiCorp, CoreOS, and Red Hat, and recently moved into consulting after roles in product marketing and staff-level solutions engineering. Joe specializes in translating complex infrastructure needs into practical deployments using Terraform, Nomad, Vault, Consul and Kubernetes, and has a track record of creating training and customer-facing lab content. He brings hands-on operational depth from early systems and platform engineering roles up through design and field enablement, making him equally comfortable in support, architecture, and public speaking contexts. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he combines strong enterprise security experience with an educator’s knack for distilling technical concepts. An astronomy/physics background hints at a long-standing analytical curiosity that informs his pragmatic approach to infrastructure problems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Astronomy/Physics, Astronomy/Physics at University of Virginia
French
Github Skills (168)
slideshow10
terraform10
coreos10
charts10
hashicorp10
helm10
html10
database10
kubernetes10
etcd10
go10
zero-trust10
consensus10
key-value10
letsencrypt9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
omkensey/demo-magic-redux
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
@paxtonhare's demo-magic with some improvements to make demos more realistic.
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 9 months
improvementsmagicrealistic
omkensey/simple-eks
Sep 2024 - Mar 2026
A simple Terraform config to create a small EKS cluster suitable for demos and other non-prod uses.
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
terraform
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