Michael Brown
DevOps Engineer at KPA
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brown is a DevOps Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, primarily in Azure, across companies from startups to enterprise. He designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, ARM templates, and Kubernetes platforms, translating software development practices into reliable operational workflows. Comfortable shifting between coding and infrastructure, he has advanced from developer roles to senior DevOps positions at firms like Olo and current work at KPA. His background in both Computer Science and English gives him an unusual edge in clear technical communication, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. Based in Portland, he pairs rapid learning and practical automation with a history of running client-facing operations as a small-business owner, bringing both technical depth and operational empathy to platform reliability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at Western Oregon University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (57)
linux10
command-line10
powershell10
shell10
command-line-interface9
azure-cli9
windows9
azure9
macos9
netcore9
cli8
powershell-module8
bots8
in-progress7
slack-api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mgeorgebrown89/Slack
May 2019 - Nov 2019
A PowerShell Module for composing and sending Slack messages using Slack Blocks and their APIs. This is very much a work in progress!
Contributions:22 releases, 72 commits, 91 PRs in 5 months
powershellin-progressslack-messagespowershell-moduleslack
mgeorgebrown89/CS-Portfolio
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:197 pushes, 21 branches in 4 months
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