Lee Hanel
Senior Staff Engineer, DevOps at Cision
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Hanel is a Senior Staff Engineer in DevOps with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, automating, and operating Linux-first infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. He has deep expertise in Puppet-driven configuration management, Kubernetes orchestration, and monitoring stacks (Graphite/Grafana, Nagios), and has led migrations from on-prem Kubernetes to AWS EKS. Lee has been a consistent troubleshooter and escalation point between development and operations, improving deployment systems and implementing PuppetDB and virtualization platforms like oVirt. Currently based in the Austin metro area, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems administration roots (dating to early Rackspace and Dell roles) and modern SRE practices. Notably, his career shows a pattern of modernizing legacy deployments and instrumentation while keeping operational rigor and documentation at the center. He excels at translating complex infrastructure needs into repeatable, auditable automation.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Networking and Systems Administraton, Associate's degree, Computer Networking and Systems Administraton at Texas State Technical CollegeGeneral, General at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (25)
1password7
hubot6
ansible-collections6
performance-tuning5
puppet5
deploying5
json4
charts3
helm3
operator3
k8s3
opt3
kubernetes3
itil3
controller3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leehanel/homeops
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:505 pushes, 3 branches, 16 tags in 2 years 2 months
leehanel/k8s-flux
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch, 7 tags in 17 days
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