Ricky Barnwell
Lead DevOps Engineer at UPS
Acworth, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Barnwell is a Lead DevOps Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience combining software engineering and operations to deliver resilient CI/CD and source-control migrations at scale. Based in Acworth, GA, he has progressed through application development roles into leadership at UPS, where he now shapes deployment pipelines and platform reliability. His background spans full-stack Java development, PHP e-commerce work, and systems administration—giving him uncommon fluency from desktop support and Active Directory automation up through cloud-native build-and-release practices. Notably, he has led TFVC-to-Git and TFS-to-Azure DevOps migrations and routinely partners with cross-functional teams to make toolchains more secure and repeatable. Pragmatic and process-oriented, he excels at turning legacy workflows into automated, auditable delivery systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Science, 3.5, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Science, 3.5 at Middle Georgia State CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3 at Georgia State University
English
Github Skills (9)
python5
world-of-warcraft5
publish4
coveralls4
travis4
coverage4
test-coverage3
packager3
lua2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
barnwellrd/Dino-Passive-Protection
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 10 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 8 months
barnwellrd/New-Player-Protection
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:86 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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