Josh Behrends
Manager - Kubernetes Engineering at Apex Fintech Solutions
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Behrends is a Kubernetes and platform engineering leader with 14 years of experience operating high-availability SaaS systems for thousands of customers from Portland, Oregon. Currently Manager of Kubernetes Engineering at Apex Fintech Solutions, he progressed from hands-on SRE and platform roles to lead teams responsible for 100% uptime, monitoring, and automation across cloud and hybrid environments. His background spans containers/EKS architecture at TransUnion, service reliability leadership at iovation, and early-career large-scale operations and deployment automation, giving him deep expertise in metrics-driven incident prevention. Josh combines strategic leadership with a pragmatic focus on tooling and process improvements that shrink deployment windows and reduce toil—skills honed through years of building monitoring stacks and automation pipelines. An operator at heart, he pairs systems-level thinking with a track record of translating operational pain points into resilient, repeatable platform solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Systems & Business Management, Bachelor of Science, Information Systems & Business Management at Portland State University - School of Business
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jbehrends/monitoring_scripts
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 branch in 10 months
jbehrends/puppet-filebeat
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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