Tavis Aitken
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTavis Aitken is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Denver with 16 years building cloud-native, scalable infrastructure and deployment tooling across startups and large enterprises. He blends deep systems administration experience with hands-on software engineering, leading platform design and containerization efforts at companies like Oracle, Splunk, EasyPost, and now Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies. Tavis has a track record of modernizing CI/CD, config management, and container platforms while partnering closely with development teams to deliver reliable production systems. He’s comfortable both architecting at scale and getting into the code—contributing to event-driven DevOps sites and tooling on GitHub that reflect his operational focus. Known for introducing new technologies and building teams, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a passion for reproducible, automated infrastructure. His background in both application development and ops gives him a rare perspective for bridging developer workflows and production reliability.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Grand Valley State University
Github Skills (7)
html10
content-management-system10
website-development10
content-management10
devops10
css9
javascript6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 24 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tavis primarily contributed to the website code for a DevOpsDays event. Their work involved creating and modifying event-specific pages, including speaker listings, sponsorship information, and the call for proposals. They also updated the event's schedule and added links to the mobile site and CFP. This suggests a focus on managing the website's content and structure for the event.
devopsdays
tavisto/tavisto.github.io
Feb 2016 - Mar 2025
Personal Page
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 2 months
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