Senior Site Reliability Engineer | Cloud Architect | DevOps Leader
📍 Central Florida | 🌐 rcarroll.dev | 📫 LinkedIn
I'm a seasoned IT professional with 7+ years of experience across systems engineering, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. My passion lies in building scalable systems, driving automation, and aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
I've worked across public and private sectors — from local government to large-scale cloud operations — and currently support Disney as a SRE via TEKsystems.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS), Azure (AKS, M365)
- Automation & Scripting: Python (Boto3), PowerShell, Bash
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios
- DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, Pipelines
- Compliance & Security: ITIL, CJIS, FedRAMP, MFA rollout
- forge-range — A deliberately vulnerable, local-only security lab for practicing container, web, credential, lateral-movement, and privilege-escalation exercises.
- solarweather-watcher — Dockerized Rust service that polls NOAA SWPC space-weather APIs, computes a location-aware impact score, and delivers real-time email/SMS alerts.
- terraform-modules — Reusable Terraform modules for provisioning AWS infrastructure as code.
- armoire — Full-stack wardrobe and style-tracking app built with FastAPI, React, Flutter, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
I'm building toward two connected goals: using technology to launch and grow my own ventures, and advancing along an engineering leadership track.
- 🚀 Leveraging engineering and cloud expertise to start and run my own businesses
- 📈 Growing toward Director-level engineering leadership
- 📜 Earning certifications (CSM, AWS DevOps Pro)
- 👥 Mentoring and leading high-performance teams
- 📊 Driving cost savings, uptime, and reliability at scale
- 🌐 Website: rcarroll.dev
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/russ-carroll
- 📬 Email: rcarroll@rcarroll.dev
“Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.” — Eliyahu Goldratt