Shad Beard
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Losant
Cincinnati, Ohio, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolShad Beard is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across AWS and Google Cloud from Cincinnati. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes migrations and custom installs (kops, kubeadm), and managing complex distributed datastores like Cassandra, Mongo, TimescaleDB/Patroni, RabbitMQ and Redis at scale. At Losant he drove the platform migration to Kubernetes, built CI pipelines and automated disaster recovery, and even authored a secure Jupyter microservice in Go—demonstrating both systems-level depth and service-level product thinking. As founder of a cloud-native consultancy he helped teams adopt best practices for observability, security and IaC, and earlier roles show a track record of cost-saving infrastructure design and enterprise deployments. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with an operator’s instinct for reliability and recovery, and often surfaces infrastructure diagrams and automation that make complex systems auditable and maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Wright State University
Github Skills (66)
terraform10
infrastructure10
terraform-module10
hashicorp10
packer10
graph10
hcl10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
terraform-cloud9
golang9
testing9
declarative9
docker9
devops9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Losant/k8s-instrumental-adaptor
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes in 12 days
Dahs81/testProject
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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