Todd Wells
DevOps Consultant at Liatrio
Grass Valley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Wells is a DevOps Consultant and DevSecOps architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing cloud-native, infrastructure-as-code platforms and secure CI/CD pipelines. He has led transformational initiatives—from moving legacy datacenter stacks into Kubernetes and HCI to building multi-tenant, high-security platforms—while balancing auditability and developer self-service. At companies ranging from startups to enterprises he’s combined automation, chatops, and IaC to reduce installation complexity and accelerate delivery. An active contributor to SaltStack documentation and release processes, he pays attention to the details that make complex automation consumable for teams. Based in Grass Valley, CA, Todd brings a rare blend of systems engineering depth and people-first leadership as a technical lead and Scrum Master.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Psychology with Math Emphasis, BS, Psychology with Math Emphasis at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (5)
configuration-management10
release-management10
documentation10
python9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Dec 2014 - May 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Install Salt from the Salt package repositories here:
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 20 PRs, 115 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the documentation and release notes of the SaltStack project. Their work included updates to the release notes for version 2016.11.9 and the addition of release notes for version 2018.3.1. They also made changes to the `event.send` state, including adding the "show_changed" option and fixing a reference in the release notes. These changes suggest a focus on improving the clarity and usability of the documentation and release processes.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
twellspring/twellspring.github.io
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
Blog for a techie type with his feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and his head in the cloud
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
mountainsheadtechiesierra-nevadajekyll
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