Ronald Lipke
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK
Greater New York City Area United States
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Top SchoolRonald Lipke is a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering with 11 years of experience building automated, resilient cloud infrastructure and observability at scale. He leads SRE teams at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK, blending hands-on automation with platform reliability practices honed from prior senior DevOps and principal systems engineering roles. Ronald’s background as a nuclear power and hydrogen plant operator gives him a rare operational rigor and incident-management mindset that informs his approach to high-stakes production systems. He has deep AWS, Chef, Jenkins, Docker/Mesos, and monitoring experience, having implemented auto-scaling, blue/green deployments, and Slack-integrated alerting across complex environments. Comfortable both managing teams and shipping code, he bridges legacy systems and modern cloud-native platforms while emphasizing security and IAM best practices. Based in the New York area, he pairs disciplined process with pragmatic engineering to reduce toil and improve uptime.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Naval Nuclear Power SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors University
Github Skills (110)
aws-services10
desktop-application10
application9
packer9
command-line-tool9
macos9
ansible8
movie8
automation8
aws8
aws-cli8
mongodb8
postgresql7
rpm-spec7
monitoring7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ronlipke/dotfiles
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:22 PRs, 14 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 10 months
ronlipke/things-bitica
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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