Kayla Garcia
Senior DevOps Engineer at Transamerica
Livonia, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKayla Garcia is a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-first infrastructure for financial and e-commerce environments. She has progressed from Linux support and on-call operations to senior DevOps roles at Transamerica, bringing practical expertise in Docker, Chef, Jenkins, OpenShift, and clustering technologies like Zookeeper and Solr. A Computational Mathematics graduate from Michigan State University, she combines scripting and automation skills (bash, Python) with a strong operational mindset for high-availability systems and HPC migrations. Kayla is comfortable owning day-to-day ops—VM builds, Chef recipes, and incident response—while contributing to platform initiatives such as Solr-as-a-service and OpenShift deployments. Based in Livonia, MI, she blends academic rigor with production experience and a track record of moving legacy systems forward through automation. Notably, her early HPC work included automating powertools and OS migrations, underscoring an aptitude for complex system transitions.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational Mathematics at Michigan State University
Github Skills (7)
semantic-versioning8
versioning6
semantic6
cli5
aws2
amazon-web-services2
aws-cloudformation2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
RightBrain-Networks/auto-semver
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Automatic semantic versioning through CI/CD
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 7 days
ci-cdsemantic-versioningversioningsemanticcli
RightBrain-Networks/deployer
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Deployment tool for AWS CloudFormation
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
aws-cloudformationdeploymentdeployment-toolamazon-web-servicesaws
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