Nick Poe
DevOps Engineer

Building scalable, reliable infrastructure

Middle DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing CI/CD pipelines, automating cloud infrastructure, and improving system reliability through observability and measurable SRE practices.

View Case Studies GitHub
4+ years
DevOps experience
30+ / month
Automated deployments
40%
Faster delivery cycle
99.95%
Uptime target met
About

Pragmatic automation, measurable reliability

Who I am

I’m a DevOps Engineer based in Seattle, focused on infrastructure automation, cloud architecture, and high-availability systems. I work closely with engineering teams to remove friction from delivery and keep production predictable.

How I work

I prefer clean infrastructure-as-code, automated delivery, and observability-first operations. My goal is to reduce manual toil, prevent incidents proactively, and keep systems easy to evolve.

Infrastructure as Code Zero-downtime deploys Shift-left security SLO / SLA mindset
Skills

Tools I use to ship and scale

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS VPC / Networking IAM ECS / EKS RDS / S3 Terraform CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Argo CD Blue/Green Canary

Reliability & Observability

Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager ELK Log pipelines SLOs

Containers

Docker Kubernetes Helm Ingress Secrets

Scripting

Bash Python Automation scripts CLIs

Collaboration

Incident response Runbooks Docs Architecture reviews Mentoring
Projects

Case studies focused on outcomes

See more on GitHub

Cloud Infrastructure Automation for SaaS

Case study

Designed and implemented automated AWS infrastructure using Terraform for a SaaS platform serving 20k+ users.

  • Reduced manual configuration errors by ~80% via reusable IaC modules.
  • Cut provisioning time from ~2 days to ~30 minutes with automated pipelines.
  • Standardized environments (dev/stage/prod) for consistent deployments.
AWS Terraform Docker GitHub Actions

Kubernetes Migration & CI/CD Optimization

Case study

Led migration from VM-based deployments to Kubernetes on AWS EKS with safer release strategies.

  • Reduced deployment downtime by ~60% using rolling + blue/green patterns.
  • Enabled fast rollbacks (under 5 minutes) via versioned Helm releases.
  • Improved build throughput with caching and parallelized CI stages.
Kubernetes Helm Jenkins EKS

Observability Platform for Microservices

Case study

Built centralized monitoring, alerting and logging to reduce MTTR and improve reliability.

  • Reduced incident response time by ~45% with actionable alerts and dashboards.
  • Raised SLA compliance to ~99.95% using SLOs + error budget reporting.
  • Implemented structured logging and searchable log streams per service.
Prometheus Grafana Alertmanager ELK

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Experience

4+ years improving delivery and uptime

DevOps Engineer Tech Company • Seattle, USA
2022 — Present
  • Designed scalable AWS infrastructure and standardized environments with IaC.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for microservices, improving release frequency and safety.
  • Implemented observability dashboards + alerting that improved on-call response.
  • Partnered with engineers to reduce operational toil via automation and runbooks.
Junior DevOps Engineer Cloud Solutions Inc.
2020 — 2022
  • Maintained CI pipelines and improved build reliability with better test stages.
  • Automated deployments with scripts and templates; reduced manual steps.
  • Assisted cloud migration efforts, supporting networking and security configuration.
  • Helped harden monitoring and alerting to catch issues earlier.
Testimonials

Trusted across teams

Nick consistently delivers stable infrastructure solutions and takes ownership of reliability. His work made releases calmer and incidents rarer.

CTO • SaaS company

Thanks to Nick, our deployment process became predictable and fast. Rollbacks are safe, and the team trusts the pipeline.

Backend Team Lead • Platform team

His automation initiatives significantly reduced time-to-market. Clear communication, great documentation, and reliable delivery.

Product Manager • Cross-functional squad