Joseph Mente
Senior Director Of DevOps, Security, & IT Operations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Mente is a Senior Director of DevOps, Security, and IT Operations based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient, compliant cloud infrastructure for fast-growing companies. He has led multi-regional DevOps, SecEng, and IT teams at DroneDeploy, driving ISO27001 and SOC2 certification, annual cost-saving programs that compound 5–10% efficiency, and M&A infrastructure integrations. A practitioner who still reviews PRs daily and writes Terraform weekly, he blends technical depth (Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, CI/CD) with financial stewardship over multimillion-dollar budgets and vendor negotiations. His open-source contributions include improving Kubernetes Stackdriver adapters to handle external metrics and enhancing Talon voice command UX, showing a taste for both backend systems and developer/user ergonomics. Outside work he prototypes and ships games as a one-person studio, demonstrating product instincts and an operator’s focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Systems Engineering, M.Eng. Systems Engineering at Cornell UniversityBSIE & BSME Double Major Industrial Engineering & Mechanical Engineering, BSIE & BSME Double Major Industrial Engineering & Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (14)
tal10
go10
google-cloud-monitoring10
gcp10
kubernetes-pods9
python9
windows9
kubernetes9
testing8
ui-design8
automation6
automations6
api-design5
api5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-stackdriver
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the custom-metrics-stackdriver-adapter, specifically enhancing its ability to support metrics from other projects. They introduced functionality to handle external metrics by adjusting the project selection logic and modifying the translator. Their work involved implementing changes to the `translator.go` and `translator_test.go` files to accommodate different project identifiers and ensure proper filtering. Furthermore, they addressed linting issues and code formatting.
talonhub/community
May 2021 - May 2021
Voice command set for Talon, community-supported.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the Talon voice command project by enhancing the user experience and functionality. They updated formatters and help commands, simplifying navigation for new users. Additionally, they implemented a switcher menu specifically for Windows systems, improving window management. Furthermore, they removed a dependency on a Visual Studio Code Talon extension.
talontalonvoicevimwindowsin-progress
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