Micah Ledbetter
Production Reliability Engineer at Jump Trading
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Ledbetter is a Production Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, human-centered, and highly readable systems across Windows and Linux environments. He blends software craftsmanship in Python, Go, PowerShell, C#, and JavaScript with DevOps expertise in Docker, AWS, Azure, TeamCity, and Octopus to deliver reproducible, idempotent infrastructure for production-critical workloads. His background in linguistics — including co-designing a patented encoding process and developing NLP training lexicons — gives him a unique edge in designing predictable, well-documented systems and data models. Micah has protected high-frequency trading and regulated education data systems by implementing compliant encryption, key management, and automation at scale. Based in Austin, he pairs operational rigor with a human-first design sensibility, often translating complex regulatory and business constraints into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (200)
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docker-desktop10
wireguard10
security10
ruby10
automation10
netcore10
encryption10
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vpn10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mrled/salaciouspatronym
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
mrled/keymap.click
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Experiments in showing off keyboard layouts
Contributions:302 commits, 6 PRs, 143 pushes in 1 year 8 months
keyboard-layoutskeyboardlayouts
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