Justin Selleck
I've been called a Principal DevOps Engineer, Platform Team Lead, Principal Solutions Architect, Software Engineer and Agile Project Management expert. I aspire to be a servant leader and therefore thrive when working alongside teams. The teams I've had the pleasure to grow with have built both IaaS and PaaS focused platforms and, at the same time, have matured in and embraced Agile PM
Platform Engineering
SANS Institute
Platform Engineering Lead
2021 – Present
- Building and maturing Software Engineering / Infrastructure teams towards Business Integration Platform Deployment using CNCF Tooling
- Responsible for Negotiating Platform/s Roadmap
- Established Team Agile Processes - Serving as an example to the rest of the organization.
- Responsible for Proofing Backstage Value Study with scorcarding and Plan for Deployment
Technologies used most
- Kubernetes: Used and deployed daily.
- Golang: Used weekly to build backend microservices, interface with azure, interface with Kubernetes, interface with external services, create cli mini-apps, create apis.
- Argo Suite: Used for gitops, workflow, event resource deployments
- NATS: Used as in cluster message bus.
- Slack: Used for team communications and chatops.
Technologies used most
- Jira: Used Daily for Agile PM
- Cloud: AKS, EKS, Key Vault, Blob Storage, etc.
- Open-Source Tooling: Backstage, Docker, helm, Argo, Argocd(gitops), Argo events, NATS(Pub/Sub), etc.
- Confluence: Used daily in Agile Cermonies, Team Colaborations/Documentation, etc.
- Languages Used: golang, c#, java, python, bash, powershell, yaml, json, mssql, gitlab/github ci
Developer Experience
Sandia National Laboratories
Role 1: Software Engineering Lead
2012 – 2021
- chatOps management platform (supports below) (Azure AKS, gitops, golang microservices, mattermost+azure+k8s sdk, argo, pub/sub)
- Self-Service Kubernetes to the workforce (gitlab ci, AKS, helm, blob, bash)
- Self-Service Container Image scanning tool (twistlock)
- Self-Service Virtual K8s Clusters (k3s)
Operations Experience
Sandia National Laboratories
Role 2: Principal Solutions Architect
- Started Cloud Software Governance Board and working member of Sandia CIO Cloud Strategy Team.
- IaC Kubernetes Management of 350+ AKS custom nodes (puppet/ansible, monitoring, patching, repaving infrastructure, Load Balancer, Certificates, Ingress, End-User Support)
- Automation of Legacy VMWare Infrastructure 2000+ Servers (Win/Lin)
Developer Experience
smoothFusion
Role 1: Software Engineer
2003 – 2012
As Tech Lead, streamlined app delivery by building DevOps tooling for Developers, Quality, and PM's to test, stage and deploy apps with DB schema via a website. (asp.net, C#, PowerShell, TSQL). Solution used to increase overall company quality + reliability && decrease time to market, dev cycle time, deployment time, integration time and staffing.Operations Experience
smoothFusion
Role 2: Director of IT
As Director of IT: Responsible for security, reliability, design and management of multi-site, highly redundant, 24x7 web hosting service on Linux and Windows. This includes DB services, web services, firewall/ids, networking (BGP, IP mgmt., redundancy), VOIP phone, mail, virtualization, etc.Honors & Awards
- 2021 - Employee Recognition Award Nomination for chatOps automated Kubernetes platform.
- 2019 - Idea-o-thon: Created working chatbot mockup to help streamline IT - Team received 1st place for Innovation
Education
Colorado State University
Master's Degree in CIS
2012 – 2015
Studied Agile Project Management, Enterprise Computing and Systems Integration, Business DB Systems, Object Oriented Systems, Data Visualization and Data Science, Java, PHP, VB.NET, etc.
Education
Lubbock Christian University
BBA in CIS
Studied C++, Visual Basic, DB Systems, Accounting, Marketing, Statistics, Corp. Finance, Communications, Biblical Studies, etc…