Summary
Geoff Kirk is a results-driven Site Reliability Engineer with 8 years of experience building and stabilizing enterprise software delivery pipelines across healthcare, hospitality, and e-commerce domains. He specializes in DevOps Release and Deployment Management, Developer Enablement, and pipeline automation using OpenShift, Jenkins, GitLab, Groovy libraries, and containerized test environments. At IHG, he led release governance, consolidated Jenkins farms, and boosted lower-environment reliability by 25% by tightening monitors and improving outage response. He has built automated build and deployment solutions at Cardlytics (GruntJS/Jenkins-based one-click builds) and streamlined OpenShift deployments and Selenium test containerization at CastleBranch. His career also includes leading large-scale repository migrations, automation of multi-application deployments, and introducing repeatable, zero-intervention workflows across teams. Based in Watkinsville, Georgia, he holds a BBA in MIS from the University of Georgia and an AS in Computer Science, reflecting a blend of business and technical rigor.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BBA, MIS, BBA, MIS at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
AS, Computer Science, AS, Computer Science at Gainesville College
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