Summary
Tristan Lanford is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Houston with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure. He has led major migrations to AWS, implemented Kubernetes clusters with KOPS, and built CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and CircleCI to improve deployment reliability. Tristan has a strong background in monitoring and time-series data, having deployed InfluxDB clusters to capture call quality metrics and expanded production observability at scale. Early career roles at Rackspace and NeoSpire gave him deep systems, SAN and application-server expertise, while his work consistently emphasizes automation with Puppet, Terraform/CloudFormation. Known for stepping into customer-facing escalations and on-call rotations, he blends troubleshooting discipline with platform-building instincts that reduce cost and increase resilience.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Renaissance Charter School