Summary
Tristin Stagg is a hands-on systems leader with 11 years of experience building and modernizing infrastructure for library and enterprise platforms, now serving as Head of Systems at ByWater Solutions. He blends self-taught curiosity with formal operational rigor to drive reliability, security governance, and cloud-native modernization across distributed environments. Tristin has led large consolidation and containerization efforts, implemented robust monitoring and observability stacks, and secured multi-tenant services with pragmatic controls like Tailscale and Cloudflare. He mentors teams while codifying infrastructure standards, and his background spans Linux migrations, automated provisioning with Salt/Ansible/Terraform, and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he’s known for turning legacy systems into auditable, containerized platforms and for shipping practical tooling that improves developer and operational transparency.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer