Kelcey Vehanen
Automation Engineer
Salem, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolKelcey Vehanen is an automation-first Sr. DevOps/Automation Engineer with 11 years of experience building tooling and CI/CD pipelines that drive reliability, cost savings, and repeatable infrastructure across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments. He has a proven track record at Fortune 500 and enterprise firms—designing GitLab pipelines that couple Terraform and Ansible, replacing costly platform workflows with pipeline-based automation, and integrating ServiceNow-driven provision workflows. Equally comfortable in VMware datacenter architecture and cloud-native stacks, Kelcey blends deep systems engineering (vSphere, RHEL, Windows) with pragmatic security and testing practices (Vault, Ansible Vault, BDD/TDD, CI). He mentors teams in Agile/Scrum and developer workflows, standardizing playbooks, style guides, and reusable roles to raise engineering velocity. Based in Salem, Oregon, he’s known for finding low-friction, high-impact automation—like replacing Ansible Automation node costs with ansible-playbook in GitLab pipelines—to deliver measurable operational savings.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Art Studio with an emphasis in Photography and Graphic Design, Bachelor Art Studio with an emphasis in Photography and Graphic Design at Humboldt State UniversityIT Certification Program IT Certification Program, IT Certification Program IT Certification Program at Microskills
Github Skills (34)
windows10
linux10
command-line10
powershell10
netcore10
macos10
shell10
sublime-text9
intellisense9
conventions9
mocking8
textmate8
sublime8
debugging8
testing7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pixelrebirth/OpenLore
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
pixelrebirth/Argali
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 25 pushes in 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.