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Rocket Science Innovation Denver, CO
Available for Contract & 1099 Work

26+ Years of Software
Engineering Excellence

Senior SRE  ·  DevOps  ·  Cloud Infrastructure  ·  AI Systems

📍 Denver, CO  —  Remote & On-site  —  Colorado

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26+ Years Experience
10+ Companies Served
AWS · GCP · Azure Multi-Cloud
FedRAMP · SOC2 Compliance
MSc Data Engineering  ·  PMP  ·  CSM

Software Engineering Services

Deep expertise across the full infrastructure stack — from bare metal to cloud-native, from on-call incident response to long-term platform architecture.

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Site Reliability Engineering

SLO/SLA design, on-call runbooks, incident management, observability platforms, and blameless postmortem culture. Built SRE orgs from scratch at Crusoe, AppOmni, and Andromeda Cluster.

Cloud Infrastructure

Multi-cloud architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure. VPC design, cost optimization, on-premise to cloud migrations, and FinOps. Comfortable taking existing infrastructure and making it scale.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

CI/CD pipelines, GitOps (Argo CD, FluxCD), Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Ansible. Infrastructure as Code from day one, deployment automation that teams actually want to use.

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AI & GPU Infrastructure

GPU cluster operations, SLURM, DCGM health monitoring, NVIDIA NGC, InfiniBand networking, distributed ML training pipelines, and heterogeneous fleet observability.

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Full Stack Development

Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/Node, Scala, and more. REST and gRPC APIs, frontend frameworks, embedded firmware, and PCB-level hardware integration for industrial IoT.

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Security & Compliance

FedRAMP and SOC2 compliance lifecycle management, SSPM/SIEM operations, secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, IAM design, and unified authentication infrastructure.

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App Development

Native mobile apps built end to end — design, code, signing, and release. RS Receipts is my own Android app: snap receipts with the camera, group them into expense reports, and export to PDF or CSV. Offline-first Kotlin and Jetpack Compose with Room storage, CameraX capture, and optional Google Drive backup.

Skills & Technologies

A breadth of tools built over 26+ years — from kernel-level Linux to managed cloud services.

Cloud & Platforms

AWS GCP Azure Crusoe Digital Ocean

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm Argo CD FluxCD Podman Swarm

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Puppet Salt Packer MaaS

AI / GPU / HPC

CUDA NCCL DCGM PyTorch SLURM NVIDIA NGC InfiniBand

Programming

Python Go Java JavaScript Scala C/C++ Perl PHP Ruby bash/zsh

Observability & Ops

Prometheus Grafana DataDog PagerDuty FireHydrant ELK Stack

Storage & Data

Ceph Weka PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra BigQuery Elasticsearch Redshift

Security & Networking

FedRAMP SOC2 HashiCorp Vault Tailscale IAM Pomerium nginx

Mobile & App Development

Android Kotlin Jetpack Compose Material 3 Room CameraX Gradle

Notable Experience

A career built at companies pushing the edges of scale, reliability, and infrastructure complexity.

Volta AI

Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer
Apr 2026 – Present

Building The Utility of Compute™ — a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform putting capital, powered land, data centers, compute, and software under one roof, delivering GPU capacity the way electricity should arrive: dependable, plentiful, and ready when you need it. Focused on the platform and operations layer making compute possible at gigawatt scale.

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Andromeda Cluster

AI Infrastructure Engineer
Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

GPU cluster operations, aggregated observability for heterogeneous SLURM and Kubernetes fleets, DCGM health monitoring, Argo CD release management.

AppOmni

Technical Lead Manager / Lead SRE
Nov 2023 – Dec 2025

Grew SRE team 1 to 5. FedRAMP & SOC2 compliance. FinOps ownership. Blameless incident culture, FireHydrant implementation, cloud cost optimization.

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Crusoe

Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Aug 2021 – Nov 2023

First SRE hire. Built and led a 6-person team. Ground-to-cloud GPU cloud platform: PXE, MaaS, Rocky Linux, Kubernetes, Tailscale. Scaled from 1 to 5 mobile data centers.

Adobe / Marketo

Staff SRE → Sr. SRE
Mar 2019 – Aug 2021

GCP migration, AWS re-architecture, containerized deployments, bare-metal Kubernetes monitoring, Puppet/Ansible fleet management at 6k-host scale.

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eBay

Site Reliability Engineer
Jul 2017 – Mar 2019

300B events/day across 6k services. China mobile market expansion. Terraform, GCP, Drone CI, HashiCorp Vault, multi-region monitoring and fraud detection.

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Rocket Science Innovation

Founder / Contract Developer
2006 – Present

13-year oilfield telemetry engagement, industrial IoT edge computing, PCB design, microcontroller firmware, cloud architecture, full-stack development across Python, JavaScript, and Java.

Other Services

Beyond software, I take on skilled trade and general contracting work in the Denver metro area on a 1099 basis.

Rental management General Handyman Home Repairs Carpentry Finish Work Painting Drywall Electrical Plumbing Flooring Decking Demolition General Construction
Get in Touch

Let's Work Together

Available for contract and 1099 engagements. Remote-friendly, Colorado-based

Phone
303-834-7418
Email
justin@rocketscience.cc
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Location
Denver, CO