Summary
Will Estes is a DevOps consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience helping engineering teams ship faster by building scalable, cloud-native infrastructure and developer-friendly tooling. He has driven cost-saving migrations and observability initiatives across healthcare, finance, and retail—recently migrating a healthcare payment system to a modern cloud-native stack and standing up an observability platform that raised SLA performance. Deeply practical with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, GitHub Actions, and scripting (Python/Bash), he focuses on automating SDLC and reducing time-to-detect and time-to-deploy. Will is a pragmatic mentor who elevates junior engineers and fosters self-service workflows so application teams can own performance and releases. Based in Kansas, he brings a systems-minded background in applied mathematics to infrastructure design and operational reliability. A self-described “professional yak shaver,” he excels at tackling the fiddly, high-leverage problems that unblock teams.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Physics, BS Mathematics and Physics at Guilford College
MA Applied Mathematics, MA Applied Mathematics at University of North Carolina at Greensboro