Michael Elkan
DevOps Engineer II at Forward Slope, Inc.
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Elkan is a DevOps Engineer II with 11 years of hands-on experience blending gameplay programming and cloud-native operations, currently leading secure PaaS deployments at Forward Slope. He brings strong systems and scripting skills (C#, C++, Python, Bash) and a track record hardening container images to DoD standards while documenting processes that keep operations smooth in his absence. Michael has built and automated production pipelines—from Unity game features to a YouTube automation system that supported millions of views—and maintained cross-project AWS environments with Docker and Maven. He’s comfortable training teams and shipping in air-gapped and heavily regulated settings, pairing developer-friendly tooling with rigorous security and repeatability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Keene State College
Github Skills (12)
gift6
feed5
scrape5
hashtag5
scraper4
meta-tags4
music4
trend3
metadata3
tiktok3
video-download3
ffmpeg2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelElkan/streaming_tools
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
MichaelElkan/Chicken-Translator
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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