Lance Zukel
DevOps Cloud Architect at Agile Defense
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolLance Zukel is a DevOps Cloud Architect with nine years of hands-on experience designing and optimizing large-scale cloud and distributed systems, currently based in the Denver metro area. He has driven multi-million dollar cost savings and reliability improvements through pragmatic AWS architecture changes, Terraform-driven IaC, and automation—rearchitecting Elasticsearch and EC2 footprints to save over $1M annually in prior roles. A practical leader and team coach, Lance blends DevSecOps discipline with SRE practices to reduce incident volume, accelerate deployments, and enforce SOC 2–level remediation. He’s comfortable across the stack from Kubernetes/EKS and Bottlerocket AMIs to custom Python and Rust tooling, and has repeatedly delivered ephemeral production-like environments that dramatically speed development cycles. An early career ASE-certified automotive technician turned cloud engineer, he brings a methodical, diagnostics-first mindset to complex infrastructure problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.85, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.85 at DeVry UniversityAutomotive Repair Technology, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, 4.0, Automotive Repair Technology, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, 4.0 at Butler County Community College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
kibana10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
admin9
guard8
authorisation8
nested6
system6
urllib6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lanerjo/aws_ELK_stack_launcher
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
lanerjo/plutus
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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