Dates: Jan 2022 – Mar 2025
Platform engineering & enablement for Ford’s Kubernetes / OpenShift environments; balancing reliability (upgrades, SLOs) with developer productivity.
Highlights#
- Managed OpenShift platform operations including upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management for enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Partnered with application and platform teams to architect scalable Kubernetes solutions, consulting on workload design, resource allocation, and platform best practices.
- Led Ford Kubernetes User Group, establishing knowledge-sharing culture and promoting platform adoption through regular technical presentations and workshops.
- Developed and maintained Terraform modules as reusable infrastructure patterns, enabling consistent, automated deployments across environments.
- Deployed and upgraded internal documentation platform (Ford Docs) using Hugo, maintaining platform knowledge base.
- Served as on-call engineer for platform availability, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating incident response.
Stack#
OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, Tekton, Hugo, RHEL, Bash, Google Cloud, GitHub