Jerome T. Dineen III

• Lead five teams (Help Desk, Security, IT Systems, Networking, and DevOps/Platform) and set technical direction, hiring, and vendor strategy across engineering
• Own an eight-figure annual budget
• Led the company's cloud migration from Azure to AWS
• Stood up a secure, cost-controlled enterprise AI platform
• Embedded continuous DevSecOps practices and PII data anonymization into the delivery lifecycle
• Built a modern observability platform on Datadog
• Re-architected Kubernetes autoscaling to provision ephemeral compute on demand
• Modernized IT asset management with Autopilot and MDM for 2,000 employees
• Run full-suite GitLab CI/CD for 12 global product teams and 100+ engineers

Keywords: Team Leadership, Security, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, IT, Cost Optimization

• Managed a 12-person DevOps team
• Orchestrated a four-region, highly available, auto-scaling microservice fleet of 3,000+ nodes using infrastructure as code
• Built and maintained full-suite CI/CD (unit, integration, security, hardening, penetration, and dependency testing) for 200 developers across 50+ deployable projects
• Ran log aggregation, alerting, and visualization on Datadog and Splunk
• Operated a multi-million-shard Elasticsearch cluster
• Created a new-service bootstrapper and tooling that accelerated delivery of new features and cloud regions
• Cut infrastructure spend by approximately $300k per year

Keywords: Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Splunk

• Ran DevOps for 50 U.S. Air Force software programs
• Partnered with program teams to rapidly deliver fully certified software to the warfighter
• Built “pipeline in a box”: self-service bootstrap pipeline infrastructure for new programs
• Implemented Auto Helm
• Wrote GitLab tooling that automatically resolves and maps CI variable dependency chains

Keywords: Helm, GitLab, Pipeline Automation, Software Certification

• Stood up the company's CI/CD environment
• Migrated legacy on-prem systems to a multi-tenant cloud (AWS and vSphere)
• Re-platformed legacy ASP code as container-based microservices, managing lifecycle with Docker and Rancher
• Owned production high availability at 99.95% (3.5 nines)
• Ran monitoring and analytics with Datadog and Nagios
• Built a low-latency live streaming platform
• Automated EC2 management (instances, launch configurations, autoscaling, and AMIs) with Ansible

Keywords: AWS, Docker, Rancher, Ansible, Live Streaming

• Owned production infrastructure uptime and security
• Architected infrastructure for a graph-based classification system
• Streamlined the production deployment process
• Modernized a legacy Flash application to HTML5

Keywords: Infrastructure Security, Graph Systems, HTML5

• Six and a half years of systems engineering across production infrastructure and mission systems

Hand-built before the GPT era. Runs on $10 a month of compute and outcompetes every major model in smiles per token.

Keywords: Markov Chains, Discord, Chatbot

Perfect scores in the network packet, web application, and API attack categories.

Keywords: Capture the Flag, Offensive Security

Elegance and surprise are the singular qualities that make learning an inviting transaction.

Keywords: Tutoring, Mentorship