Mitch Cimenski
Senior DevOps Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitch Cimenski is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and operating resilient systems across large-scale physical and virtual environments. He has led major initiatives at Target—most notably as a founder and lead engineer of GoAlert, Target’s largest open-source project that scaled to 5,800+ users and provided a PagerDuty alternative—before moving into observability and platform roles. Known for rapidly modernizing legacy infrastructure, Mitch has migrated VM fleets to modern automation, built telemetry and visualization tooling, and implemented disaster recovery strategies that minimized downtime. A hands-on full-stack contributor, he has improved both front-end and back-end components in open-source projects (including TLS support and UI refactors) and favors pragmatic, cost-efficient open-source solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep troubleshooting instincts and PowerShell/Linux automation expertise with strong communication and mentorship skills. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational needs into reliable, well-documented engineering outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of Minnesota MorrisHigh School
Github Skills (14)
go10
react10
backend9
back-end-development9
web-development9
api8
uid8
css8
apidoc8
ui-design8
front-end-development8
cicd7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
target/goalert
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Open source on-call scheduling, automated escalations, and notifications so you never miss a critical alert
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 357 reviews, 220 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily contributed to the front-end and backend functionality of the GoAlert application. They fixed user search validation issues, implemented a heartbeat endpoint with POST-only functionality, and updated the UI with link arrow enhancements and a conversion of the ScheduleDeleteDialog to hooks. The user also refactored UI components and removed dependencies. Further, the user added TLS support.
alertcriticalescalationson-callscheduling
m17ch/test-repo
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Repo for functional validation
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
validatorvalidation
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