Maxwell Spangler
Platform Engineer
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMaxwell Spangler is a Platform Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience operating and modernizing Linux-first infrastructure across data centers and cloud environments. He specializes in observability, monitoring, automation, and incident response, having built and run large-scale metrics platforms and supported thousands of nodes in production. Maxwell pairs deep systems troubleshooting—often resolving remote hardware, networking, and connectivity issues others struggle with—with clear documentation and knowledge sharing for distributed teams. Recently reoriented to cloud-native work, he holds AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate certifications and actively applies that learning to platform design. Known for taking a detective’s approach to problems, he focuses on the under-appreciated but critical areas that keep services running like clockwork. Based in Denver, he brings a pragmatic mix of data center, DevOps, and low-cost engineering solutions honed since using Linux in 1993.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Administration & Programming, Computer Administration & Programming at Laurel HS
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Github Skills (19)
provisioning9
admin-interface9
graphite8
monitoring7
linux7
go6
automation6
diagram6
django6
javascript6
python5
time-series4
graph4
http-server4
whiteboard3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maxwax/station-chef
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Chef automation to configure my personal Linux workstation
Contributions:360 commits, 44 PRs, 378 pushes in 3 years
automationlinux
maxwax/position
Oct 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:11 releases, 20 pushes, 10 tags in 3 years 9 months
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