Joshua Hetland
Sr. Vice President & Director Of Site Reliability Engineering at Northern Trust
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Hetland is a strategic engineering leader with 11 years of experience building enterprise-grade cloud platforms and site reliability practices for large, regulated organizations. Currently SVP & Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Northern Trust, he previously led cloud platform strategy and migration efforts at Walgreens Boots Alliance, working closely with Microsoft to design scalable, auditable multi-cloud foundations. He combines hands-on systems engineering and automation expertise—from CI/CD, configuration management, and container orchestration to custom tooling—with a developer background across C#, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Ruby, and Python. Joshua has a track record of turning complex operational requirements into reusable, testable infrastructure patterns and self-service tooling that empower distributed application teams. He also applies pragmatic, cost-conscious cloud architectures to nonprofit projects (e.g., a Raspberry Pi–driven real-time tournament system) showing a flair for creative, low-cost engineering. Based in Northbrook, IL, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with executive-facing strategy and regulatory-aware delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Science, Associates Computer Science at Gateway Technical College
Github Skills (19)
test-kitchen9
minecraft9
kitchen9
launcher9
nodes8
testing7
linux7
ruby6
macos5
knife5
azure-resource-manager4
windows4
azure4
docker3
wsl23
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
josh-hetland/omnitruck
Aug 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
pythonautomationartifactsomnibusweb-service
josh-hetland/Contest.net-Unit-Worker
Jun 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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