Ray J
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer at AlphaBravo 🇺🇸
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay J is a Senior DevSecOps/Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, secure infrastructure from bare metal to cloud. Based in Colorado Springs, he has run fleets of 10,000+ game servers on Kubernetes, built AWS Organizations and Control Tower deployments with Terraform, and authored durable, auto-scaling Go services for cross-region data replication. He pairs deep systems troubleshooting skills with a passion for open source—contributing to projects like NATS, KEDA, and MinIO—and designs observability and security platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and automated policy checks. Ray’s background spans VoIP, audio platforms, and telco billing systems, giving him a rare comfort across networking, storage, and application layers. Known for pragmatic automation, he frequently turns operational pain points into repeatable CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco Certified Network Academy, Cisco Networking Academy, Cisco Certified Network Academy, Cisco Networking Academy at Pikes Peak Community College
Github Skills (200)
serverless10
k8s10
prometheus10
monitors10
scrollable10
monkey10
amazon-s310
keda10
window-manager10
kubernetes10
storage10
object-storage10
networking10
tiling10
security10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Minehut/archie
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
a scalable file archiver for MinIO events
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
archiveawsbackblazebackblaze-b2buckets
rayjanoka/auto-tag
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Automatically tag AWS resources on creation, for cost assignment and governance
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 7 months
creationgovernanceaws-resourcesaws
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