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Jeremy Spofford

Senior DevOps Engineer

JeremySpofford@gmail.com|https://github.com/jeremyspofford|Windham, ME

Professional Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience driving infrastructure automation, cloud cost optimization, and CI/CD excellence. Reduced monthly GCP spend by 30% through strategic Cloud Run and review-app optimization. Architected dynamic preview environments and automated certificate management systems serving production workloads. Prototyping Nova — a 9-service AI platform POC exploring graph-based cognitive memory, PyTorch re-ranking, and multi-provider LLM routing. The platform layer is where DevOps meets AI, and that's where I'm heading.

Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer at VividCloud

2022-11 — Present

30% GCP cost reduction via shared review-app infrastructure (replacing full-stack per-MR environments), Cloud Run scale-to-zero for non-production services, and build pipeline cleanup (eliminating unnecessary container builds on every commit).

Cloud Cost Optimization Initiative: Led an initiative resulting in a 30% reduction in monthly infrastructure expenses across all environments.
Dynamic Preview Environments: Designed and implemented scalable preview environments tied to GitLab merge requests to improve testing efficiency.
AWS Cognito Authentication: Implemented AWS Cognito-based authentication system with user pools, MFA, and federated identity for secure application access.
Certificate Management Automation: Implemented automated SSL certificate renewal system with GCP Secret Manager and Pub/Sub.
Terraform Documentation Automation: Engineered comprehensive automation generating standardized README files, usage examples, and configuration templates with automatic updates.

GCP · Terraform · GitLab CI · AWS

Software Engineer at Tyler Technologies

2021-06 — 2022-11

Developed cloud administration applications reducing support call durations by 50%. Collaborated on web application for cloud migrations, removing technical interventions. Implemented code review protocols strengthening software quality standards.

Cloud Administration Application: Developed cloud administration tool that reduced support call durations by 50% through self-service capabilities.
Migration to GitHub CI/CD: Led migration from legacy CI systems to GitHub Actions with automated security scanning.

TypeScript · GitHub · CI/CD · AWS · Angular

DevOps Engineer at Tyler Technologies

2019-06 — 2021-06

Designed CI/CD pipelines streamlining deployment processes across teams. Architected scalable Puppet infrastructure for environment consistency. Automated user onboarding and routine administrative tasks via PowerShell.

CI/CD Pipeline Architecture: Designed and implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipelines streamlining deployment processes across multiple teams.
Infrastructure Automation: Architected scalable Puppet infrastructure ensuring consistency across all environments.

On-Prem · Azure · Puppet · PowerShell · IIS · MS SQL Server · SQL

Education

Associate's Degree in Computer Science

May 2017

Southern Maine Community College

GPA: 3.8

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

Skills

AI & Automation: LLM Integration, Prompt Engineering, Python Automation, RAG Pipelines, AI-Assisted DevOps

AWS Services: IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudWatch

CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity

Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose, Container Security

Database Management: SQL, Liquibase, Redis, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB

GCP Cloud Platform: Compute Engine, Cloud Run, VPC/Subnets, Private Service Connect, Secret Manager, BigQuery

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, AWS CDK, Ansible

Scripting & Programming: Python, Bash, TypeScript, JavaScript, PowerShell

Linux Administration: Ubuntu/Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Shell Scripting, System Monitoring

Security & Compliance: SonarQube, Veracode, Secret Management, IAM Integration

Windows Server: Active Directory, IIS, PowerShell Automation, Group Policy

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Jun 2020 - Jun 2023

Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud

Mar 2025 - Mar 2028

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