David St. John

DevOps Lead | AI Engineer
20+ years of Cloud Infrastructure & DevSecOps Excellence
📧 davestj@gmail.com
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🐙 GitHub
🌐 Portfolio

Areas of Expertise in Engineering and DevOps

🏗️Infrastructure & Automation

Terraform Chef Ansible CloudFormation Python (boto3) Bash

🛡️Security & Compliance

GDPR SOC 1/2 PCI/PHI Snyk SonarCube SAST/DAST

📦Containers & Orchestration

Docker Kubernetes ECS EKS ArgoCD Kops

🔄CI/CD & DevOps

Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Groovy Salt Vagrant

☁️Cloud Platforms

AWS Microsoft Azure VMware KVM Proxmox Hyper-V

🤖AI & Modern Development

Claude.ai ChatGPT Codex Venice AI Grok AI Ollama LLM Engineering

Professional Work Experience

DevOps Lead
ClubSpeed · Irvine, CA · Remote
April 2024 - December 2024
Led initiatives for Docker Compose orchestration and managed container deployments to AWS ECR and ECS. Specialized in AI Prompt engineering for SAST/DAST and Lambda pipelines.
  • Streamlined CI/CD processes with GitHub workflows and action integrations
  • Provisioned and managed scalable AWS Lambda and Beanstalk infrastructure
  • Developed serverless applications with AWS Lambda and Node.js, reducing operational overhead
  • Created custom Windows application in Node.js for enhanced logging with AWS OpenSearch
Docker AWS ECS/ECR Lambda Node.js OpenSearch
DevOps Lead
MTI - Mobile Technologies Inc. · Hillsboro, Oregon · Remote
July 2023 - November 2023
Led Infrastructure as Code implementation with Jenkins CI/CD, CloudFormation, Terraform, and Terragrunt for scalable deployments.
  • Orchestrated Kubernetes containerized applications on Amazon EKS, kops, and EKS Anywhere
  • Established CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and optimized delivery with Salt scripts
  • Implemented configuration management solutions with ArgoCD and Helm
  • Developed CI pipeline scripts in Python and Groovy for operational tasks
Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins ArgoCD EKS
Sr. DevOps Engineer / Team Lead
Verizon Location Services (formerly AOL/MapQuest)
Sept 2016 - Jan 2021
Led migration of on-premises systems to AWS cloud, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and managed authentication integrations in Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Developed automation scripts with Chef and Ansible for frequent platform updates
  • Chef cookbook development and management for enterprise infrastructure
  • Jenkins CI development and management for continuous integration
  • Build and Release processes for frequent MapQuest updates
AWS Chef Jenkins Terraform Kubernetes
Sr. DevOps Engineer
Huron Consulting Group / My Rounding
March 2015 - Sept 2016
Developed LAMP stack applications and custom Nagios plugins, deployed VPN/IPSEC solutions across organizations. Managed Amazon Cloud services ensuring HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance.
  • Configured and maintained Continuous Integration processes
  • Developed recovery plans and provided technical leadership
  • Ensured compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 standards
AWS LAMP Stack HIPAA SOC 2
Career Highlights
Various Leadership Roles
2000 - 2015
Comprehensive experience across software engineering, network engineering, and founding technology companies. Extensive background in streaming media platforms, embedded systems, and full-stack development.
  • Sr. Software Engineer - Roomlinx, Inc (Oct 2012 - March 2015)
  • Sr. Full Stack Engineer - Liquid Compass (Nov 2009 - Sept 2010)
  • Sr. Network Engineer - Spacial Audio (Dec 2006 - Nov 2009)
  • Founder / Owner - MediaCast1 (March 2000 - Dec 2006)
PHP Java JavaScript Streaming Media Embedded Systems