Jonathan Whetsell
Senior DevOps Engineer at Wilcore Technologies, Inc.
Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Whetsell is a Senior DevOps Engineer and Cloud Systems Architect with nearly three decades of engineering experience and a focused nine years in cloud-native and DevOps roles. He designs and automates secure, compliant AWS GovCloud and hybrid infrastructures for mission-critical government programs, turning legacy Java/WebLogic stacks into observable, containerized microservices with Terraform, Ansible, EKS, and GitHub Actions. Jonathan has led large-scale datacenter transitions and CI/CD standardization across hundreds of systems while supporting FISMA High audits and STIG-driven remediation, demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on coding, architecture, and security operations. He is skilled at performance optimization, cost-efficient autoscaling, and centralized observability using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana. Beyond technical delivery, he has a track record of shipping production-ready reference implementations and standards (e.g., a nationwide LPR sharing architecture) that continue to be adopted by government agencies. Based in Moncks Corner, SC, he also experiments with AI-assisted automation for proposal and pipeline generation, bringing practical prompt engineering into delivery workflows.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at College of Charleston
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Github Skills (17)
docker10
rancher10
cattle10
container-management9
kubernetes9
orchestration9
terraform-provider7
terraform7
helm7
aws7
vmware7
charts7
bitnami6
ansible3
dashboard3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jrwhetse/ansible-examples
Feb 2017 - Jun 2019
Ansible Example with Multiple Roles
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
ansibleansible-role
jrwhetse/jrwhetse.github.io
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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