Mike Putnam
Senior Cloud Engineer at Energy Vault
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolMike Putnam is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure, currently focused on enterprise initiatives at Energy Vault. He has led DevOps and cloud architecture for diverse clients—from global media platforms to HIPAA-bound healthcare startups—specializing in serverless patterns, CI/CD automation, cost optimization, and security-first designs that pass pen-testing and load targets. Mike bridges hands-on engineering and enablement, enabling small DevOps teams to deliver resilient, low-maintenance managed infrastructure while empowering developers to iterate rapidly. He contributes to open-source documentation work on widely used projects like Apache Libcloud, improving clarity around multi-cloud usage and pricing. Based in Appleton, WI, he combines deep operational experience with pragmatic architecture guidance and a knack for translating enterprise requirements into appropriately sized, auditable cloud solutions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Random Lake High SchoolAssociates Degree, Associates Degree at Lakeshore Technical College
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on correcting and improving the documentation within the `apache/libcloud` repository. Their contributions involved fixing broken links, correcting misplaced formatting (markdown vs. Sphinx), and ensuring accurate word usage within the documentation. The changes aimed to enhance the clarity and correctness of the documentation, particularly regarding how to use the library and its pricing data.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
dhmncivichacks/timewebsite
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Alpha website, NE Wisc creatives / TIME community (tech, innovators, makers, entrepreneurs)
Contributions:132 commits, 83 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 years 4 months
data-exchangereactmakerscreativestech-community
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