Parker Portlock
Senior Site Reliability Engineer II at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolParker Portlock is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and securing cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused at HashiCorp after roles in SRE and network engineering. He brings a rare blend of network engineering, Linux administration, and AWS architecture expertise, having led major initiatives like decommissioning multiple physical data centers and reducing backend vulnerability exposure by 70% at Alert Logic. Parker is skilled in automation and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) and has driven cost and performance optimizations such as ARM64 AMI builds to lower cloud spend. A former desktop-support-to-cloud journey gives him strong operational empathy and the ability to mentor junior engineers while shaping secure, scalable systems. Based in Austin, he combines pragmatic engineering with a security-first mindset to deliver measurable risk reduction and operational efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Management Information Systems (MIS), Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Management Information Systems (MIS) at Texas Tech University
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Github Skills (14)
netmiko9
python9
cisco9
django9
napalm9
network9
juniper9
network-automation9
netbox9
truth8
infrastructure-management8
netconf8
apache7
automation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
parker-portlock/asa-upgrade-py
Sep 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
abm89/automation
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:65 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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