Jerome T Dineen III

Engineering Leadership

📧sonny.dineen@gmail.com 📞(402) 709-3108 🔗https://doot.online
📍19426 Davy Jones Circle, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States, 68048

Bottom Line Up Front

  • Systems and infrastructure leader with 15+ years across defense contracting, DoD software delivery, and high-growth e-commerce

  • Technical depth in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure), Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD at scale, and observability

  • Security-minded: led a Big4 audit to a pass, built DevSecOps and PII anonymization into delivery pipelines, maintained STIG-compliant Linux estates

  • Leads across help desk, security, IT systems, networking, and DevOps functions; hires, mentors, and sets technical direction

  • Consistent record of measurable cost reduction, including roughly $800k/year in combined infrastructure savings

Education

University of Nebraska Omaha
Bachelor, Computer Science and Mathematics

Work

Spreetail
Director of IT and Security
  • Leading five teams spanning help desk, security, IT systems, networking, and DevOps/Platform

  • Set technical direction, hiring, and vendor strategy across engineering

  • Deployed a robust, cost-controlled, secure Enterprise AI platform

  • Lead succesful cloud migration from Azure to AWS

  • Implemented continuous DevSecOps practices and Data Anonymization for PII compliance

  • Implemented a modern Observability Platform with Datadog

  • Refactored scaling for kubernetes clusters to dynamically deploy ephemeral compute

  • Modernized ITAM by implementing autopilot and MDM for 2000 employees

  • Maintain full suite CI/CD on gitlab for 12 global product teams comprising 100+ engineers

  • Manage an 8-figure annual budget

Keywords: Team Leadership, Security, Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, IT, Cost Optimization
Reliaquest (via Object Partners)
Lead Systems Engineer
  • Manage 12 person DevOps team

  • Use IAC principles to orchestrate and maintain 4-region high availability auto scaling microservice cluster (>3000 nodes)

  • Create and maintain full suite CI/CD pipelines (unit, integration, security, hardening, penetration, dependency tests) for 200 developers across 50+ deployable projects

  • Manage log aggregation, alerting, and visualization via Datadog and Splunk

  • Manage and maintain multi-million shard elastic cluster

  • Implement new service bootstrapper and tooling for new services

  • Accelerated time to delivery for new features and cloud regions

  • Reduced infrastructure bill by approximately 300k per year

Keywords: Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, CI/CD, Elasticsearch, Splunk
Platform One (via Dinohead)
Director of Engineering
  • Run Devops team for 50 USAF Software Projects

  • Work with programs to rapidly deliver fully certified software to the warfighter

  • Create self serve bootstrap pipeline infrastructure, "pipeline in a box"

  • Implemented auto helm

  • Wrote gitlab script to automatically resolve and list variable dependency chains

Keywords: Helm, GitLab, Pipeline Automation, Software Certification
Proxibid
Senior DevOps Engineer
  • Created CI/CD environment

  • Migrated legacy on-prem system to multi-tenant cloud (AWS/Vsphere)

  • Converted legacy ASP code to container based microservices

  • Used Docker/Rancher to manage lifecycle

  • Responsible for production system high availability (3.5 nines)

  • Managed analytic suite with Datadog/Nagios

  • Created low latency live streaming platform

  • Automated EC2 management (instances, launch configs, autoscaling, AMI) with Ansible

Keywords: AWS, Docker, Rancher, Ansible, Live Streaming
USAF LCMC (via Strategic Partners)
Senior Systems Engineer
  • Responsible for production infrastructure uptime and security

  • Architected infrastructure for graph-based classification system

  • Optimized production deployment process

  • Modernized Flash application to HTML5

Keywords: Infrastructure Security, Graph Systems, HTML5
Northrop Grumman
Senior Systems Engineer
  • Systems engineering across production infrastructure and mission systems

Skills

DevSecOps: Expert
Keywords: Datadog, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Aikido, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab, Nexus, ELK
Systems Architecture: Expert
Keywords: AWS EC2, AWS RDS, AWS EKS, AWS IAM, AWS Networking, Azure, VSphere
Linux Administration: Expert
Keywords: RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, STIG Compliance
Programming Languages: Advanced
Keywords: Python, Java, JavaScript, C
Frameworks: Advanced
Keywords: .NET, Spring Boot, Node, J2EE, React

Other

Spookybot
Markov-chain learning chatbot for Discord

Built by hand before GPT, it costs 10 dollars a month in compute and outcompetes all major models in smiles/token

Keywords: Markov Chains, Discord, Chatbot
KernelCon CTF
2nd Place Team Finish

Went perfecto on the network packet, web app, and API attack sections

Keywords: Capture the Flag, Offensive Security
Math and Computer Science Tutoring
Volunteer tutoring

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

Keywords: Tutoring, Mentorship