Austin, Texas · Remote corp-to-corp · Available
Aldi Jenkins
Staff engineer for Kubernetes platforms, multi-account AWS networking, and the Go and Python services behind them.
Tens of millionsAWS NAT Gateway spend removed at Epic Games, and kept off new accounts.
~300 accountsCross-cloud AWS and GCP networking, including Cloud WAN, at top-10 AWS customer scale.
Daily deploysA department moved from biweekly releases to multiple deploys a day. Deployment time down by over 90%.
Three ways to hire me
- Kubernetes platform
- Go operators on Kubebuilder, hub-and-spoke ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry on every cluster, GitHub Actions paved roads, OpenShift, Terraform, Istio, Backstage. Epic's team applications reached 100% continuous deployment.
- Multi-account AWS networking
- VPCs, routes, Cloud WAN, Palo Alto Panorama, Twingate, Nautobot, and Arista wireless expressed as Kubernetes resources and reconciled from Git.
- Backend, auth, and audit
- FastAPI and Django, a central OAuth2/OIDC service, SOX auditing of database access, payments APIs, Kafka. Cisco, Synapse, and Arvest.
Recent work
- 2025–2026Epic Games, remote. Staff engineer. Operators, network platform, fleet GitOps.
- 2023–2025Cisco, remote. Staff engineer. FastAPI, OpenShift, SOX auditing, Backstage.
- 2021–2023Arvest Bank, remote. Developer platform. ArgoCD, Kafka, Knative, Terraform.
- 2019–202115Five, remote. Staff engineer. CI/CD, EKS, Global Auth, Istio.
- 2017–2019Synapse, remote. Payments. Flask, FastAPI, auth, internal developer platform.
Contact
Remote corp-to-corp · rate discussed on the call