Knox Lively
Lead Technical Evangelist at Observe, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolKnox Lively is a Lead Technical Evangelist based in Boulder, Colorado, with 11+ years of hands-on experience spanning DevOps, cloud modernization, and developer education. He champions observability and community engagement at Observe, translating complex backend systems into approachable narratives for engineers and the public. Previously he led migrations and uptime initiatives across AWS and hybrid environments, built CI/CD and self-healing monitoring solutions, and managed infrastructure at scale for media and ad platforms. Knox pairs deep operational expertise (Ansible, Datadog, CircleCI, Jenkins, AWS services) with strong advocacy skills, training teams on DevOps and Agile practices. A published writer and active technical communicator, he regularly publishes on Medium and builds educational content that bridges product, practice, and developer needs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation and a knack for turning monitoring data into actionable, service-improving workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Stephen F. Austin State University
Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
project-ocre/ocre-runtime
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Leveraging WebAssembly and Zephyr, Ocre supports OCI-like application containers in a footprint up to 2000x lighter than Linux-based container runtimes such as Docker and Podman.
Contributions:5 reviews, 45 PRs, 84 pushes in 6 months
gonzolively/ansible-workstation
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:81 pushes, 2 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 10 months
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