Summary
Samuel Lightsey is a Senior Cloud Engineer in Los Angeles with a decade of experience building automated, production-grade infrastructure and push-button deployments that emphasize monitoring, metrics, scalability, and stability. He has progressed through roles at SurveyGizmo, Radiant Solutions, VGW, and Recurly, where he now focuses on making operations repeatable and resilient. A practical DevOps veteran, Samuel favors HashiCorp tooling and brings hands-on expertise tying IaC, CI/CD, and observability into cohesive delivery pipelines. He pairs a full-stack developer background with deep operational instincts, often prioritizing automation that prevents toil before it becomes visible.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at FRCC