Sleep Kuntz

they/them
Based in: Chicago

Projects

Ptero

A webapp for posting to Mastodon and Bluesky

Glutil

A collection of utilities for managing an AWS Glue Catalog

pd

A command line interface for PagerDuty

Experience

Staff DevOps Engineer, Journera

2017 — 2024
  • Helped design and maintain our cloud infrastructure platform with high uptime and strict security requirements and minimal paging.
  • Managed DevOps Team, defined team roadmap and managed team backlog, worked with CTO and other team leaders to keep our priorities in sync, and mentored junior team members.
  • Worked directly with CTO and Finance Team on cloud cost management and helped develop and implement cost-saving efforts.
  • Developed the disaster recovery system for company's primary product, and lead the implementation effort. Ran regular disaster recovery tests.
  • Lead the design and implementation efforts of modernizing our platform security using tools that include Tailscale, AWS Sessions Manager, and AWS SSO.
  • Designed and developed the internal deployment system, providing the team with one click application deployments, infrastructure refreshing, and rollback, using blue/green deployments and immutable and ephemeral infrastructure.
  • Created tooling for self-service cloud development environments for developer and data science teams, with IAM and automation guardrails in place for maintaining security and costs.
  • Organized regular external penetration testing, and worked with security engineer to pass SOC 2 audit.
  • Maintained documentation for various DevOps-owned resources.
  • Wrote various other tools and scripts for managing infrastructure and automation using Terraform, Go, Python, Ruby, and Ansible, run with AWS Lambdas, AWS ECS (both managed EC2 Instances and AWS Fargate), Buildkite, Concourse CI, Circle CI, and Others.

Infrastructure Engineer, Braintree Payments

2015 — 2017
  • Managed puppet configuration and associated scripts.
  • Worked with developers to make them more familiar with the infrastructure.
  • Wrote Puppet provider and Pacemaker scripts for managing PDUs.
  • Rewrote an old Java library in pure Ruby to allow an application to migrate from JRuby to MRI.

Software Development Intern, Braintree Payments

Summer 2014

Education

B.A. in Computer Science, Carthage College, Kenosha WI

Graduated 2015