The best infrastructure disappears. 8 years of making systems boring-on-purpose in DevOps — shrinking a 30-minute pipeline to 2 by rebuilding change detection. Currently designing multi-account AWS infrastructure with Terragrunt and Lambda across five environments.
“Oh, that broke. That's okay — it's just part of engineering.”
— My 5-year-old, who gets it.
Recommendation
“Jeremy led improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, Terraform automation, and Docker build/publish workflows, making deployments more reliable and our developer experience smoother. He embodies a blameless, collaborative mindset. Any team would be lucky to have someone with his drive, expertise, and generosity.”
Jessica Wood, Software Engineer
Recent Writing
When Terraform Meets Reality: The Manually-Created Resource Problem
2026-04-17A war story about Terraform state disagreeing with the AWS console — the import attempt that didn't resolve, the allow-failure interim, and why filtering manually-managed resources out of CI was the right call.
How I Structure GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
2026-04-06Patterns I use to build modular, maintainable GitLab pipelines — with real examples covering multi-environment deployments, change detection, security scanning, container builds, and automated promotion.
Monitoring and Observability in Modern DevOps Environments
2025-11-22Treat your monitoring config like code. CloudWatch alarms as Terraform, metric math for derived rates, per-environment retention tiers, and SNS routing patterns from a real production AWS environment.
Contact
Currently open to conversations about Senior / Staff Platform, DevOps, and AI Infrastructure roles — remote, or Maine-adjacent.
Get in touch: [email protected]