Josh Samuelson
Senior DevOps Engineer at LinkedIn
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Samuelson is a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and empowering teams through education. He blends hands-on SRE work—spanning Terraform, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS, and Elastic Stack—with a focus on eliminating toil and enabling no-downtime operations. At Dropbox Sign he led production reliability and CI/CD improvements that moved releases from monthly to weekly and helped introduce the company’s first Kubernetes deployment. As a longtime LinkedIn Learning author he’s taught DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, and logging to hundreds of thousands of learners, marrying practical engineering with clear instructional design. Now at Aerospike, he continues to drive platform resiliency and automation, favoring systems that work without relying on heroic human intervention.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Pacific Lutheran University
German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
samuelson/samuelson-dockeragent
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
Manage simple dockerized Puppet agents
Contributions:24 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 11 months
dockerizedagentsdockerpuppet
samuelson/pltraining-bootstrap
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Bootstrap files for Puppetlabs Training VMs
Contributions:2 PRs, 280 pushes, 126 branches in 2 years 5 months
trainingbootstrapvmspuppet
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