Casey Vockrodt
Senior DevOps Engineer - Security Team at Workday
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Vockrodt is a Senior DevOps Engineer focused on security with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and automation. Based in Aurora, Colorado, he has led GitOps CI/CD implementations, Terraform and Serverless IaC, and Kubernetes deployments to meet stringent NIST 800-53 requirements while shifting security left through integrated scanning. He’s hands-on across Python, Node.js, Java, Docker, Helm/Kustomize, Vault and GitLab CI, and has built custom ETL microservices and ServiceNow integrations that improved observability and operational efficiency. An active contributor to python-semantic-release, Casey has improved release automation, CI checks and code quality—demonstrating a strong attention to maintainability and developer experience. With a background in engineering physics and applied math, he brings a methodical, data-driven approach and a persistent curiosity for learning deeper security and automation practices.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering Physics, Applied Math, BS, Engineering Physics, Applied Math at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (11)
gitlab10
release-automation10
python10
gitlab-ci10
cicd10
documentation9
testing9
versioning9
configuration-management8
typehinting7
type-checking7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Automating Releases via SemVer and Commit Message Conventions
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Casey made significant contributions to the project's infrastructure and release automation. They implemented CI/CD checks for GitLab, added support for a `commit_message` config variable, and improved documentation. Furthermore, the user enhanced code quality by adding type hints and improving docstrings. They also addressed a typo, demonstrating a focus on code clarity and maintainability.
pythonsemantic-releasetooling
cvockrodt/put.io-aria2c-downloader
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
Python script that sends put.io files to aria2c for download
Contributions:9 releases, 33 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 5 months
python
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