Summary
Mike Shade is a DevOps Architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating scalable, cloud-native platforms across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. He specializes in containerization and Kubernetes, having built production microservice hosting platforms, Helm chart libraries, and ephemeral dev/test environments that accelerate delivery and reduce toil. Known for clear communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, he translates complex system trade-offs into actionable decisions and pragmatic automation. His background spans platform engineering at high-traffic consumer sites, infrastructure automation with Terraform/CloudFormation, and building Python tooling to integrate CI/CD and observability stacks. Based in Alexandria, VA, he blends deep operational knowledge with a developer-friendly mindset to improve reliability, onboarding, and deploy velocity.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
George Mason University
English, Spanish