Joseph Vargas
Platform Engineer
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Vargas is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD systems, and cloud infrastructure that make shipping fast, safe, and repeatable. He specializes in turning developer tooling into productized, opinionated workflows—clarifying the path from local dev to CI to Kubernetes runtime and removing friction that slows teams. Notable deliveries include solo-building a DevSecOps platform in ~8 weeks that replaced SSH-based workflows, standardized CI/CD with reusable GitHub Actions, CDK-provisioned AWS infra, ArgoCD GitOps, and production-like ephemeral URLs enabling autonomous deployment across 10+ workstreams. His background spans high-throughput data systems and Kubernetes migrations at Raytheon and large-scale platform cost consolidation at Deloitte that yielded multi-million dollar savings. Intentionally AI-forward, he operationalizes AI-assisted engineering to automate repetitive work and increase leverage across organizations. Based in Denton, Texas, he blends reliability engineering, observability, and practical IaC (TypeScript CDK, Terraform) with a developer-first sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of North TexasGithub contributions (5)
VargasDevelopment/Slack-Bot
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
VargasDevelopment/Beer-Roulette
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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