Ryan Thompson

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, automating CI/CD, and delivering containerized, production-ready systems. I’m known for quickly understanding existing environments, fixing deployment issues, and optimizing pipelines to improve release speed and reduce downtime.

In my recent role at Everseen, I designed and implemented scalable AWS infrastructure to support AI-driven retail analytics platforms. I built and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment time by 40%, and implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for automated, version-controlled Kubernetes deployments.

I’ve consistently used Infrastructure as Code to standardize delivery—automating provisioning and configurations with Terraform (and Ansible where needed). I also strengthened reliability with Kubernetes operations on EKS (deployment strategies, scaling, monitoring), plus automated failover and disaster recovery to maintain business continuity.

Security and observability are central to how I work: I integrated SonarQube, Veracode, and OWASP security scanning into pipelines for DevSecOps enforcement, and improved observability through centralized logging and monitoring using Splunk and Grafana. Across my experience—from FedEx, AEC Profiles, and Bank of the West to earlier builds—I’ve focused on scalable architectures, least-privilege access, and dependable automation from build through deployment.