Michael Peterson
Lead Devops Engineer at Civis Analytics
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Peterson is a Lead DevOps Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and operating secure, cloud-native infrastructure from Roanoke, Virginia. He currently leads DevOps at Civis Analytics after senior roles at eMinor and hands-on infrastructure work at Gateway Church, with a deep background in AWS, Terraform, Lambda, and payment/PCI-DSS-compliant systems. His career began in systems and financial services engineering, giving him strong foundations in Solaris/Linux administration, Perl programming, and complex data migrations. Michael combines practical security and compliance expertise with cloud architecture skills, having run his own consultancy focused on cryptography, payment processing, and Linux operations. He holds an MS in Informatics from UNC Greensboro and brings a rare mix of operational discipline and product-focused engineering to help teams ship reliable, auditable systems. An early career foodie/cheesemonger, he brings customer-facing empathy to technical leadership and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Religion/Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Religion/Religious Studies at Alma CollegeMaster of Science - MS Informatics, Master of Science - MS Informatics at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Github Skills (153)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gateway-church/gwayppl-vagrant
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 months
acquiavagrantvirtualboxacquia-cloudcloud-environment
mwpeterson/adventofcode
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
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