Marshall Ford
Principal Consultant at Improving
Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMarshall Ford is a Principal Consultant and platform engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-first, secure, and operable cloud platforms for hybrid and edge environments. He blends a Full Stack Web Development background with deep SRE and DevSecOps expertise to design container-orchestrated landing zones, GitOps-driven IaC, and CI/CD pipelines that prioritize Day-2 operations. Marshall has guided platform strategy and delivery across enterprise and consulting roles, including senior infrastructure work at General Mills and ongoing leadership at Improving. He’s pragmatic about security-from-code-to-cloud, and often frames platform choices around operational observability and long-term maintainability rather than short-term feature wins. Based in Minnesota, he brings an engineer’s attention to developer experience while solving real-world cloud modernization challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at North Dakota State University
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Github Skills (200)
kvm10
gatekeeper10
k8s10
fault-injection10
prometheus10
zsh10
xunit10
terraform-provider10
container-image10
php10
observe10
python10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
marshallford/terraform-provider-pfsense
Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
Used to configure pfSense firewall/router devices with Terraform.
Contributions:2 reviews, 63 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 7 months
firewallpfsenseterraformterraform-provider
marshallford/terraform-ansible-k3s
Apr 2025 - May 2026
Provision and operate a Kubernetes cluster with the convenience of a CSP-managed Kubernetes service. Designed for homelabs, on-premises, and edge environments.
Contributions:1 review, 49 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 1 month
kubernetes-clusterkubernetes-serviceansiblek3skubernetes
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