Joel Sheppard
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Sandown, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Sheppard is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with eight years focused on building resilient, secure cloud and AI infrastructure for healthcare at Microsoft (formerly Nuance). He specializes in automating repeatable, auditable deployments using Azure, AKS, Bicep and Azure DevOps, and has led high-stakes efforts like decommissioning legacy systems, replacing local auth with managed identities, and designing CAB governance for patient-critical services. Joel blends a testing-first mindset from a long Quality Engineering career with hands-on platform ownership—he surfaces and fixes the messy, cross-team problems that determine whether systems survive real incidents. Comfortable operating at the intersection of reliability, security, and compliance, he has driven dark-rollout/feature-flag deployments and ServiceNow adoption to reduce operational risk. Based in New Hampshire, he’s known for turning deep operational experience into practical automation and governance that scale across regions and regulatory boundaries.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer Networking Windows Domain administration and computer repair, Associate’s Degree Computer Networking Windows Domain administration and computer repair at Computer Learning CenterAutomated Web Testing with Selenium, Automated Web Testing with Selenium at PluralSightRuby and Python, Ruby and Python at Code AcademyPenetration Testing AppSec, Penetration Testing AppSec at Practical Web Application Penetration Testing (PWAPT)Selenium WebDriver With Java, Selenium WebDriver With Java at UDEMY: Selenium WebDriver With Java - Novice To NinjaAssociate’s Degree Computer Information Technology (CIS), Associate’s Degree Computer Information Technology (CIS) at Southern New Hampshire UniversitySoftware Testing, Software Testing at Rapid Software TestingGit Complete: The definitive step-by-step guide to Git, Git Complete: The definitive step-by-step guide to Git at Udemy Alumni
Github Skills (24)
openshift3
security3
capability2
terraform2
kubernetes2
aws2
perf2
verify2
discovery2
docker1
facade1
test-kitchen1
scanner1
static-analysis1
image1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sheppduck/docsNshit
Nov 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
sheppduck/scripts
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 8 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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