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Justin Smith

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I am a results-oriented DevOps and CI/CD engineer with extensive experience automating software delivery pipelines, migrating legacy tooling to modern platforms, and building reliable deployment architectures.

About

I am a results-oriented DevOps and CI/CD engineer with extensive experience automating software delivery pipelines, migrating legacy tooling to modern platforms, and building reliable deployment architectures. I excel at digging into complex problems, writing clean automation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software.

Based in Denver, I have supported financial services, e-commerce, and cloud infrastructure initiatives across remote and hybrid environments, combining strong analytical thinking with hands-on coding and testing skills to improve performance and reliability.

  • 12 years' experience
  • Joined December 2025

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Financial Services
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 12 roles

DevOps Engineer · AkkodisJun 2025 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

CICD enablement for a major investment bank; migration from Harness, Bamboo, ProGet, and CloudFoundry to GitHub Actions, JFrog, and Kubernetes; tooling in Node.js and Cypress for deployments to Cloud Foundry.

DevOps Engineer and Senior SDET · Covered InsuranceNov 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Automated E2E testing of Nest.js and Express.js services with AVA, Jest, and Cypress; Implemented code coverage reporting with Coverage, Jacoco, and Istanbul; Created Dockerfiles, GitHub Actions workflows, Kubernetes and Helm charts; Alerting pipelines with CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch, PagerDuty, Slack, and Grafana; AWS administration via IAM Roles, SSM Parameter Store, S3, Lambdas, SQS/SNS, Athena, and Glue; IaC with Terraform.

Senior SDET · Covered InsuranceNov 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Automated E2E testing of Nest.js and Express.js services with AVA, Jest, and Cypress; implemented code coverage reporting with JaCoCo/Istanbul; created Dockerfiles, GitHub Actions workflows, Kubernetes and Helm charts; alert pipelines with CloudWatch, Prometheus, OpenSearch, PagerDuty, Slack, and Grafana; AWS admin via IAM, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Athena, Glue; config-as-code via Terraform.

Quality Assurance Engineer · CarMax / AutarchyAug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo
Quality Assurance Engineer · CarMaxAug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo
Quality Assurance Engineer · YETIApr 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer · Systems Integration DevelopmentJul 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer · Systems Integration DevelopmentJul 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology · University of Texas at Dallas2030 – 2025
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology · University of Texas at Dallas2030 – 2025

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