Paul Otto
Principal Platform Engineer
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Otto is a Principal Platform Engineer with over two decades of experience designing data, infrastructure, and backend systems that deliver measurable business value. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS GovCloud) with technical leadership—driving DevSecOps and zero-trust architectures for mission-critical public and classified cloud platforms. Paul has led platform teams at Kessel Run and Ticketmaster, built scalable streaming and orchestration solutions using Kafka, Istio, and Kubernetes, and won government contracts as a principal architect for ADCP. He mentors engineers across military, government, and commercial environments and has a rare combination of operational database expertise and cloud-native systems architecture. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he also runs Otto Ops to help organizations adopt big data pipelines and DevOps practices, and develops training materials to upskill others. His background as an Army shop foreman and accountant-turned-engineer gives him pragmatic leadership grounded in operational discipline and fiscal accountability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Organizational Leadership Information Technology, MS Organizational Leadership Information Technology at Colorado State UniversityBS Business Administration Accountancy, BS Business Administration Accountancy at CSUSM College of Business
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
potto007/druid
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 19 pushes, 29 branches in 2 years
OttoOps/docker-containers
Nov 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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