Ross Dickey
Senior DevOps Engineer, Technical Operations
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRoss Dickey is a Senior DevOps Engineer with nine years focused on cloud-native observability and operational resilience, currently leading the DevOps Observability On-Call Experience team at LogicMonitor in Austin. He designs and automates SaaS monitoring and infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Prometheus, and Grafana, with a track record of reducing false alarms and improving uptime. Ross has led post-acquisition integrations and reorganizations (Airbrake into LogicMonitor), aligning roadmaps to business objectives while maintaining hands-on delivery. His background includes building container and Kubernetes platforms at Oracle and shipping production-ready AWS architectures at Rapid7, plus freelance multi-region migrations and even expert witness testimony on AWS configurations. He combines deep operational discipline with a practical emphasis on documentation, runbooks, and measurable follow-up, making on-call reliability a measurable outcome rather than an aspiration.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical/Computer Engineering, BSEE Electrical/Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (36)
virtualbox8
aws8
packer8
okta8
dsl7
ruby7
vagrant7
aws-credentials7
credentials7
mongodb6
upstart6
daemon6
amazon-ec26
aws-cloudformation6
apachebench6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/convection
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
A fully generic, modular DSL for AWS CloudFormation
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 5 months
aws-cloudformationdslgenericmodularaws
rapid7/builderator
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Tools to make CI Packer builds awesome
Contributions:21 commits, 13 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 1 month
vagrantbuildspackerrubybuilder
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