Tony Gilkerson
Principal DevOps Engineer at Mile Two, LLC
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Gilkerson is a Principal DevOps Engineer and solution architect with over a decade of experience designing cloud-native, high-availability systems and migrating monoliths to microservices. He blends hands-on expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/Azure/DigitalOcean, and IaC with a strong operational mindset grounded in CALMS, CI/CD, and ITIL-driven service delivery. Tony has led architecture and SRE initiatives across enterprises and research organizations, recently applying automation and sensor-control expertise to UAS and embedded systems at the University of Dayton Research Institute. Known for decisive leadership and continuous improvement, he excels at turning complex requirements into repeatable, automated pipelines and resilient platforms. An Ohio-based technologist, he pairs deep legacy-system knowledge from long tenures at IBM and AT&T-era Sterling Commerce with modern cloud engineering practices.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Marshall University
Github Skills (129)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tonygilkerson/demo-kafka-dcos
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 4 months
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tonygilkerson/app1
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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