Robin Tripp - DevOps Engineer

Hi, I'm Robin.

@rbnis

Infrastructure that scales. Pipelines that ship.

Automating the boring parts so the interesting ones stay interesting.

Skills

Deploying, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters and their workloads.

Building and running containerized applications with Docker and containerd.

Over 4 years designing and evolving GitOps strategies using Flux and Flagger.

Setting up and maintaining production clusters running a service mesh with Istio.

Writing and deploying infrastructure as code with OpenTofu and Terraform.

Setting up, maintaining, and evolving CI/CD pipelines with Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI, and GitHub Actions.

Day-to-day development with Git, including self-hosted GitLab administration and GitHub.

Working across a broad range of services and resources in Azure Cloud, Hetzner and STACKIT.

Primary operating system for servers and workstations across all environments.

Writing Bash scripts on Linux and macOS, and PowerShell scripts on Windows.

Maintaining and performing large-scale migrations of PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Writing, maintaining, and deploying roles and playbooks with Ansible.

Jan. 2022 - present

Deploying and maintaining cloud infrastructure with Terraform
Ensuring stable operation of applications in Kubernetes clusters
Monitoring complex cloud environments and applications with Prometheus and Grafana
Migrating large-scale applications from on-premise to cloud environments
Running and maintaining complex deployments using Istio service mesh
Developing and implementing GitOps strategies for various deployments and cluster management

Oct. 2020 - Dec. 2021

Sep. 2010 - Sep. 2020