Mikel Duke
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at USAA
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMikel Duke is a Lead Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently focused on OpenShift/Kubernetes, Golang operator development, and core Java infrastructure at USAA. He blends hands-on coding across Java, PHP, Arduino and Go with platform architecture, shipping operators and platform tooling that keep large enterprise services reliable. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he pairs infrastructure automation with a developer-first mindset to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. Outside work he’s completed multi-month endurance adventures—3,000+ mile TransAm cycling and a 1,500 mile Appalachian Trail hike—demonstrating persistence and systems-level planning that inform his engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, Anthropology, BA, History, Anthropology at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (31)
webservice10
google-map10
google-maps10
gps-tracking9
distributed-tracing9
php9
opentelemetry8
jaeger8
observability8
monitoring8
kubernetes7
nodejs-server7
jwt7
authentication7
prometheus7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikelduke/ESP8266WifiDisplay
Sep 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
mikelduke/magic-shapes
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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