- Email: josh@joshbeard.com
- Web: joshbeard.com
- GitHub: github.com/joshbeard
- Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Engineering manager and platform engineer focused on software delivery, developer experience, and the platforms teams use to build and deploy reliable services. I lead platform strategy as a hands-on manager, shaping the systems, tooling, and standards that connect development workflows to production. My work centers on coherent platforms, reduced toil, and enabling engineers to own the services they build.
Previously: Staff DevOps Engineer (February 2025 - February 2026), Senior DevOps Engineer (September 2022 - February 2025)
September 2022 - Present
- Lead platform strategy and DevOps AI roadmap for a team supporting multiple engineering groups, aligning delivery automation, engineering standards, and platform adoption with business and compliance requirements.
- Drive cross-team standardization of tooling and delivery practices, reducing per-team pipeline variance and improving time-to-production across the engineering org.
- Architect CI/CD and platform infrastructure that scales across teams while maintaining auditability and governance controls for a regulated banking environment.
- Built a release orchestration tool in Go that reduced manual release steps and improved rollback safety across production deployments.
- Developed and open-sourced a Terraform provider and Go API client for a third-party integration, enabling self-service infrastructure for downstream teams.
- Established observability practices for CI/CD pipelines, giving engineering leadership visibility into delivery performance for the first time.
Key technology and skills:AWS, CI/CD, Claude, Cursor, DataDog, Devcontainers, Docker, GitLab, GitOps, Go, Golang, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Developer AI Tooling, Platform Engineering, Python, Shell, Terraform, Traefik
June 2022 - April 2023
- Contracted to USGS Water Resources Mission Area to modernize critical national water data services used by researchers and the public.
- Built AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for serverless Python applications and static websites, reducing deployment time and operational overhead.
- Integrated automated security scanning and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines, reducing manual review burden on development teams.
Key technology and skills:AWS, CloudFormation, GitLab, Python
Previously: Senior DevOps Engineer (September 2015 - December 2019)
September 2015 - May 2022
- Owned platform architecture and infrastructure for dozens of USGS scientific data products serving millions of public users.
- Led migration of 200+ projects from legacy CI/CD systems to GitLab, standardizing delivery practices across a large multi-team organization.
- Deployed configuration management at scale using Puppet and Ansible across hundreds of Linux systems, eliminating configuration drift and reducing incident response time.
- Migrated dozens of applications from on-premise to AWS using Docker, cutting infrastructure costs and enabling teams to scale workloads independently.
- Mentored engineers and scientists in DevOps practices, enabling teams to own and operate their own infrastructure without platform team dependency.
Key technology and skills:AWS, CI/CD, GitLab, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Platform Engineering, GitOps, Puppet, Python, Nginx, Traefik
September 2013 - April 2015
- Delivered consulting and hands-on training on Puppet and DevOps practices to enterprise clients across multiple industries.
- Developed reusable Puppet modules and automation tooling adopted by client teams after engagements closed.
- Consistently earned strong client feedback for practical, no-nonsense technical guidance.
Key technology and skills:Puppet, Linux, Ruby, Git, Shell
January 2010 - September 2013
- Managed Linux/Unix infrastructure and server operations for a K-12 district environment.
- Introduced system automation and monitoring, reducing manual maintenance toil and improving uptime.
- Provided technical support and maintained core network services.
Key technology and skills:Linux, Unix, Puppet, Nginx, MySQL, KVM, PHP
- Platform Engineering & Developer Experience
- Engineering Leadership & Team Enablement
- Release Management & Automation
- CI/CD Architecture & Pipeline Design
- Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management
- DevSecOps & Compliance Automation
- GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
- Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
- Puppet, Ansible
- Nginx, HAProxy, Traefik
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- DataDog, Prometheus
- Elasticsearch, Graylog
- PagerDuty
- Sensu
- AWS Cloud Services
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Linux/Unix (RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, FreeBSD)
- Virtualization (Proxmox, LXC, Vagrant, KVM, vSphere)
- Security Scanning & Vulnerability Management
- Go
- Python
- Shell/Bash
- Ruby
- YAML, JSON, HCL
- PHP
- Code Analysis & Security Scanning
- Compliance Automation
- Security Policy as Code
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