Ryan Sheppard
Senior DevOps Engineer at Chicory
City of Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Sheppard is a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience designing and automating resilient cloud infrastructure. He excels at observability, cost optimization, and deployment automation—reducing deployment times from 30 to 5 minutes, cutting cloud spend up to 30%, and enabling hundreds of self-service deployments. Ryan has led cloud migrations (AWS→GCP), large-scale monitoring rollouts with Prometheus/Thanos and Datadog consolidation, and Terraform upgrades that unlocked modern IaC modules. Comfortable across tooling from Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible and Vault to Apache Beam for data pipelines, he combines hands-on coding with operational rigor to turn recurring ops work into repeatable, secure systems. A former instructor assistant and early consultant, he brings clear communication and a knack for translating complex infrastructure changes into measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Santa Fe CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems at University of Florida
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Github Skills (22)
storage8
monitoring8
high-availability7
observability7
vault7
google-cloud-storage7
prometheus7
go7
thanos6
excel6
terraform6
gateway5
terraform-provider5
identity5
zero-trust3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gatortechuf/gatortechuf.com
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:100 commits, 92 PRs, 134 pushes in 1 year 7 months
ryansheppard/morningjuegos
Sep 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:262 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
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