Casey Chapman

Owned end-to-end design and deployment of on-premises Kubernetes environment, established GitOps patterns, and led migration of flagship application to Kubernetes with zero-downtime cutover. Delivered 156+ pull requests for multi-service AWS modules and integrated Vault with EKS/OIDC.

Deployed AI/LLM-powered automation tooling in production, reducing manual toil and improving response times by 40%. Defined DORA metrics, built CI/CD with Bitbucket Pipelines, and led Redis to Valkey migration reducing costs by 33%.

Defined SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for a globally distributed cloud platform, improving capacity-planning accuracy by 20%. Designed multi-region infrastructure across 17+ data planes using Terraform and Flux, and built observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

Led serverless transformation by reengineering EC2-based applications to AWS Lambda and ECS, cutting operational overhead by 40%. Built CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Go, and developed Terraform modules for consistent deployments.

Led security and compliance programs achieving HIPAA and HITRUST certification through automated controls and IAM hardening. Eliminated 70% of manual operational toil with Ansible automation and implemented observability using Zabbix, Alertlogic, and ELK Stack.

Designed HA Redis platform on Kubernetes with automated failover and observability. Built Go tooling with Prometheus and Grafana, and led on-call response to a zero-day exploit across 65,000 instances within 48 hours.

Automated internal tools with Ansible, reducing manual steps and human error. Upgraded internal infrastructure for security and migrated data center infrastructure to Oracle Cloud, improving scalability and reducing costs.

Built complete AWS infrastructure for Harvest platform in Java environment. Led migration of on-premises workloads to AWS and VMware using Go and Flux, and implemented security hardening measures.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Texas Tech University, completed in 2011.