Silver Bowen
Senior Staff Engineer - DevOps Lead at WP Engine
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSilver Bowen is a Senior Staff Engineer and DevOps lead with 11 years of experience driving production engineering strategy and automation at WP Engine from Austin, Texas. He specializes in scaling CI/CD, governance for Netsuite/Salesforce integrations, and SLO-driven reliability work that has delivered multimillion-dollar savings and significant reductions in manual effort. A hands-on leader, Silver coaches engineers, builds observability practices, and moves monoliths to distributed architectures while keeping delivery velocity high. His background spans full-stack development, systems ops, and polyglot teams, informed by a nontraditional path from a jazz performance degree to intensive software training. Colleagues rely on him for postmortems, measurable operational improvements, and pragmatic guardrails that prevent repeat incidents.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Jazz Theory and Performance, Bachelor's degree Jazz Theory and Performance at Rollins CollegeFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampAPT - Accelerated Programmer Training Certificate Program Software Development, APT - Accelerated Programmer Training Certificate Program Software Development at Austin Community College
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Github contributions (5)
silverbowen/ITSE-2317-Intermediate-Java
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
silverbowen/ITSE-1345-Intro-Oracle-PL-SQL
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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