About Justin Bailey
Software, platforms,
and the people using them.
I'm a software and platform engineer, technical lead, and U.S. military veteran. My work connects the software teams build with the infrastructure and operating practices that keep it dependable.
How I work
Platforms are products.
I care about the interface as much as the implementation: what a developer needs to express, what the platform should own, and how an operator knows it is working.
My experience spans Kubernetes operators and APIs, self-service infrastructure, production reliability, container maintenance, and technical delivery. I stay close to the implementation while connecting engineering decisions to the people using the system.
Beyond professional work, I operate a home environment that keeps me learning. The portfolio explores that work in more detail.
Professional experience
Roles & contributions.
Platform Development Technical Lead
Build platform software, Kubernetes capabilities, and self-service infrastructure while leading delivery and customer-facing technical work.
- Developed a Kubernetes operator covering tenant onboarding, RBAC, network policy, secrets management, and upgrade safety gates across EKS and bare-metal environments.
- Developed Crossplane-based capabilities and self-service workflows for cloud provisioning.
- Built a self-service infrastructure catalog using OpenTofu and Terragrunt.
- Partnered with developers, product teams, security engineers, and customers to translate recurring requirements into reusable platform APIs and deployment patterns.
- Automated container maintenance workflows for Platform One Iron Bank and internal products.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Owned production reliability for a multi-region, GPU-backed MLOps platform.
- Acted as incident commander for high-severity production incidents, coordinating diagnosis, service restoration, post-incident analysis, and remediation.
- Automated recurring operational work and established SRE practices.
DataOps and Observability Engineer
Established a DataOps and observability function for Azure NetApp Files, connecting operational telemetry with engineering decisions.
- Connected metrics, logs, and telemetry to troubleshooting and operational decisions for distributed storage.
- Partnered with SRE, product, and engineering teams to define observability requirements and address systemic reliability issues.
2019–2022
GovCIO (formerly Salient CRGT)
DevOps Engineer
Built enterprise and edge infrastructure automation for mission-critical systems.
- Automated system configuration with Ansible and Nautobot.
- Built tooling for repeatable bare-metal deployment.
- Mentored DevOps engineers on Linux automation and operational best practices.
Foundations
Service & systems.
- ARMA Global / General DynamicsSenior System Administrator · 2018–2019
- United States Army ReserveIntelligence Analyst · 2018–2022
- United States ArmyFire Direction Control Specialist · 2014–2018
Education
Norwich University
Bachelor of Science — Vulnerability and Computer Forensics
Graduated in 2022.
