Summary
Travis Estep is a seasoned DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience blending hands-on software engineering, Scrum leadership, and cloud infrastructure design. He has led migrations from colo to AWS, implemented cost-aware auto-scaling and on-demand test environments, and automated build and deployment pipelines as a Lead DevOps and Build/Release engineer. Formerly a software engineer and Scrum Master who moved into IT management, he pairs deep technical fluency in .NET/Java systems with a servant-leader approach to mentoring and team enablement. Travis is pragmatic about balancing uptime and cost—using tools like Cloud Custodian and custom scripts to optimize spend—and enjoys teaching colleagues new to DevOps. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, he brings a rare combination of delivery-focused engineering, Agile advocacy, and operational discipline to teams scaling cloud-native services.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer