Samuel Christen Oliphant

Principal DevOps Engineer | Founder

Experience

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Principal DevOps Engineer

Stealth FinTech Startup

Mar 2023 - Present

Building FinTech infrastructure with Amazon EKS and CI/CD

Founder

Bit Smith

Sep 2015 - Present

Empowering organizations through open source and zero trust architecture

Site Reliability Engineer

Leviathan Security Group

Jul 2021 - Mar 2023

Infrastructure automation and scalable security solutions

Skills

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Kubernetes CI/CD GitOps ArgoCD DevOps Site Reliability Engineering Observability Grafana Infrastructure as Code Zero Trust Architecture AI/ML Integration Claude Code Gemini-CLI LLM Automation Open Source Linux Network Security C C# Go MySQL PgSQL NoSQL Cassandra Kafka RabbitMQ

Projects

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Infrastructure as code

Scalable Kubernetes infrastructure for financial services utilizing declarative and scalable infrastructure as code.

CI/CD Pipeline Automation and GitOps

Orchestrated && automated deployment and testing workflows to maximize developer productivity and product velocity.

Observability and Monitoring

Owning and continuously innovating the entire observability stack at minimum cost with Grafana and OpenTelemetry.

Education

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Computer Engineering

Purdue University