SPENCER RUNG

Platform Engineer

DevOps Tech Lead

Platform engineer with 8+ years building secure, scalable infrastructure for enterprise and government clients. Expert in Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines. Currently leading DevOps teams to deliver production-grade platforms from containerization to deployment. Passionate about clean Infrastructure as Code and automation that just works.

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EXPERIENCE

DevOps Tech Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton

2022 - Present

  • ▸ Lead dedicated DevOps team on large-scale government contract, managing platform evolution from development to production
  • ▸ Architected layered CI/CD using Tekton for job execution and GitLab for orchestration, improving pipeline performance across 50+ microservices
  • ▸ Implemented DevSecOps pipeline integrating security scanning, automated testing, and compliance checks throughout deployment lifecycle
  • ▸ Maintained GitOps deployments using Flux, enabling declarative infrastructure management across multiple environments
  • ▸ Built reusable Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and configuration management with Ansible for consistent EKS deployments
  • ▸ Expert-level Kubernetes administration across RKE2, EKS, and virtual clusters (vCluster), managing complex multi-tenant architectures
Kubernetes Terraform Ansible GitLab CI Tekton Flux EKS RKE2 vCluster

Platform Engineer & Full Stack Developer

Booz Allen Hamilton

2021 - 2022

  • ▸ Dual role managing platform infrastructure while contributing to Django application development
  • ▸ Designed templated, reusable GitLab CI/CD pipelines reducing configuration overhead by 60% across development teams
  • ▸ Led infrastructure modernization from docker-compose on bare metal to production-ready EKS cluster
  • ▸ Developed full-stack features including REST APIs, frontend components, unit tests, and database migrations
  • ▸ Bridged development and operations through hands-on experience in both domains
Django Python GitLab CI Docker EKS Terraform PostgreSQL

DevOps Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

2020 - 2021

  • ▸ Sole DevOps resource supporting two parallel web projects (PHP and C# stacks)
  • ▸ Containerized legacy applications and created Docker-based local development environments for full-stack testing with MongoDB
  • ▸ Built production EKS infrastructure using CloudFormation, then led migration to Terraform for better maintainability
  • ▸ Established CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins replacing fragmented custom scripts, enabling consistent deployments
  • ▸ Created comprehensive Helm charts for application deployment and standalone API services
  • ▸ Orchestrated database migration to MongoDB instances in EKS with zero downtime
Kubernetes EKS Terraform CloudFormation Jenkins Helm Docker MongoDB PHP C#

Operations Engineer / Customer Product Analyst

QikServe

2018 - 2020

  • ▸ Co-designed enterprise Windows 10 management and deployment solution integrated with Chef, managing 200+ Windows clients
  • ▸ Built self-service deployment system enabling Operations team to manage updates without code changes, reducing deployment overhead
  • ▸ Implemented Chef across kiosk deployments (Windows 10) and infrastructure (microservices and legacy servers)
  • ▸ Created custom Chef provisioning method for Windows clients using PowerShell to meet strict customer security requirements
  • ▸ Migrated AWS and Azure infrastructure to Terraform for consistent Infrastructure as Code practices
  • ▸ Led monitoring migration from Papertrail to DataDog with custom integrations and alerts for full platform visibility
  • ▸ Automated data transformation processes reducing Operations tasks from 3 weeks to 1 day through Python/PowerShell scripts
  • ▸ Established version control for Operations team workflows using GitLab and BitBucket
  • ▸ Managed all production deployments via Chef and Jenkins using GitFlow methodology
Chef Terraform DataDog Python PowerShell Jenkins Docker Kubernetes AWS Azure GitLab BitBucket

SKILLS

Cloud Platforms & Services

AWS Azure

Container & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm EKS RKE2 vCluster

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Pulumi Chef

CI/CD & GitOps

GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Flux Tekton Git GitFlow

Monitoring & Observability

DataDog Prometheus Grafana Kibana CloudWatch Papertrail NXLog Jaeger Loki

Programming & Scripting

Python Bash PowerShell Go Ruby JavaScript YAML HCL

Databases & Messaging

PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis RabbitMQ Kafka SQL

Development Tools

Git GitLab GitHub BitBucket Postman Jira SCCM BootStrap

Systems & Platforms

Linux Windows Server Nginx Vault Consul Istio Citrix DameWare

CONTACT

Interested in working together or just want to chat about platform engineering? Feel free to reach out through any of these channels.

Email [email protected]
Portfolio alucard.dev
GitHub github.com/spencerrung
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/spencer-rung