Summary
Phillip Dudley is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience blending systems administration, network engineering, and software development to build resilient CI/CD and infrastructure platforms. He has driven automation and deployment at scale across enterprises like symplr, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, and Cerner, authoring Chef cookbooks, Ruby gems, and containerized deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Drone, and Concourse. A former US Army IT specialist and S6 NCOIC, he brings operational discipline from military deployments to production reliability and incident response. Phillip codes across Ruby, Go, Python, Java, and multiple scripting languages, and is comfortable managing Elasticsearch, etcd, and a variety of Linux distributions and cloud/virtualization stacks. Known for a hands-on, curious approach, he pairs hobbyist tinkering with pragmatic DevOps practices to continuously improve reliability and delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Computer Science, programming, N/A, Computer Science, programming at Kirkwood Community College
Fundamentals of Network Engineering, Computer Science, Fundamentals of Network Engineering, Computer Science at University of Phoenix
High School Diploma, Network Engineer, High School Diploma, Network Engineer at Central City Community Schools