Paul Whitehead
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Splunk
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Whitehead is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure for large enterprises, currently driving SRE practices at Splunk. He built and maintained a cloud-agnostic in-house PaaS at Oracle/Datalogix that supported 20+ development teams and thousands of instances, and has deep hands-on expertise with Terraform, Puppet, Docker, and CI/CD automation. Comfortable across AWS and private cloud platforms, Paul has led zero-downtime migrations of stateful services (Elasticsearch, Mesos) and automated blue/green deployments for payment systems. Known for mentoring peers and sharing practical tooling knowledge, he blends strong troubleshooting instincts with clear cross-functional communication. Based in Denver, he brings a rare combination of systems administration pedigree (AIX/Oracle migrations, HIPAA compliance) and modern DevOps craft to scale resilient production environments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Denver
Github Skills (38)
kubernetes10
terraform-cli10
charts10
terraform10
aws10
helm10
nginx10
cosign9
ingress-controller9
terraform-provider9
security9
puppet9
serverspec9
governance9
compliance9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pwhitehead00/hellas
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 5 months
ironhalo/puppetfile
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:26 PRs, 28 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
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