# Aldi Jenkins

> Building Kubernetes Operators at Epic Games

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aldi

🌟 Goal-driven tech consultant experienced in a wide range of services, from software architecture to implementation and security.

🛠️ Adept at crafting and conveying technical roadmaps to both clients and in-house project teams.

💡 Proficient in harnessing the latest technologies to maximize operational efficiency and boost the bottom line.

📈 Proven track record in specialized software tasks including:

👨‍💻 Blueprinting system architecture
🔍 Drafting detailed specs
📚 Specifications development
🎯 Responsible for end-to-end software quality, from rigorous testing to fine-tuning, along with comprehensive documentation.

🔐 Deep insight into organizational strategies, with a knack for translating business objectives into streamlined tech solutions.

Expertise In:

📘 Full-Spectrum Software Engineering across diverse technologies
🌐 Web-based enterprise solutions
📸 Platform and Cloud computing engineering
📈 Managing software projects effectively

Ready to take your tech initiatives to the next level? Let's talk! 🤝💼

## Work Experience
### Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Epic Games
Jan 2025 – Present
Building Kubernetes Operators in Golang for managing Panorama, Arista, AWS, Nautobot, Twingate resources.

### Staff Software Engineer (Internal APIs) @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Led our team's projects for the creation and delivery of FastAPI + MongoDB Microservices

Built a comprehensive contract + E2E testing suite creation for each service.

Created the team’s Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Collaborate cross-functionally across stakeholder teams

### Senior Software Engineer @ Arvest Bank
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Delivered robust, production-grade GitOps workflows that improved deployment efficiency and reduced errors by over 40%.

Streamlined event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Knative, enabling real-time data processing and improved application responsiveness.

Migrated complex React applications to modern functional patterns, reducing frontend code complexity and improving performance by 20%.

Enhanced infrastructure security and reliability through advanced Linux administration and Terraform-based automation.

### Staff Engineer (Core Team) @ 15Five
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Created the Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline which took the entire department from deploying to production twice a week to now at least multiple times daily.

Migrated the 15Five Infrastructure from Ansible to AWS Kubernetes (EKS)

Led two Django LTS Upgrade Projects (1.11 -> 2.2 -> 3.2)

Created environment-agnostic Terraform modules for all of our AWS VPCs using Terragrunt

Led the initiative for Service Oriented Architecture as the new standard at 15Five, creating the first service (Global Auth) and building standards for future service decompositions from the monolith

Built the service mesh on top of our multi-cluster kubernetes topology using Istio to adopt mTLS HSTS for intra-cluster service to service communication

Chosen as the single employee from the company to go to Burning Man with one of the cofounders.

Rebuilt our Django session cookie logic to use subdomain-specific session cookies

Setup Private customer-specific VPCs in a multi-region topology.

Led multiple product-based projects as a product-engineering Tech Lead

### Senior Software Engineer @ Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Acted as a technical lead for cross-functional initiatives, driving best practices in microservices architecture, security, and DevOps workflows.

Mentored junior engineers, facilitating knowledge sharing sessions and creating comprehensive documentation to foster team growth and alignment.

Collaborated with product teams to define technical requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.

Delivered multiple seamless Python version migration across all flask services improving code quality and system performance.

Established Istio service mesh, improving observability, security, and network reliability for a distributed microservices architecture.

Reduced developer onboarding time by 50% through a well-architected Internal Developer Platform.

Enhanced API security and user management with a centralized custom authentication service, setting a gold standard for secure service access.

### CTO @ metoo.io
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
My social media tech startup company which I built and developed the entirety of the backend services and infrastructure.

* Utilized Google Cloud’s Kubernetes (GKE) since k8s v1.8
* Utilized Istio since version v0.6.0
* DjangoREST Framework + React Native Frontend
* Created a GitOps canary release system utilizing Istio and Spinnaker
* The startup received $100k in funding but never found product-market fit.

### Software Engineer @ SEACORP
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Middletown, Rhode Island, United States
Built network serialization software for submarine network communications using Apache Avro

Utilized Agile methodologies in our sprints/daily standups

### Network Engineer @ ATC Tech Solutions, LLC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Middletown, Rhode Island, United States
Linux-based Network engineering


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Rhode Island


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/883749283ac

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Last updated: 2026-03-22