# Cody Kaup

> Senior Software Engineer at Chromatic

Location: Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/codykaup

I’m an infrastructure engineer with years of experience in systems/infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, and software engineering. I have experience in building large internal tools and scalable services used by thousands of customers. I love Go, Kubernetes, automation and I’m driven to be part of a team that’s building something new to the world!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Chromatic (we're hiring!)
Jan 2021 – Present | Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Implement and maintain features of the Chromatic stack focused heavily on cloud-based services within AWS, GCP, and Heroku.
- Forecasting future growth of the product focusing on capacity planning.
- Plan and prioritize work for the infrastructure team including sprint planning and other agile ceremonies.

### Software Engineer (Flywheel Platform) @ Flywheel
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Omaha, Nebraska, United States

### Junior Software Engineer (Flywheel Platform) @ Flywheel
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Build and maintain everything at the platform layer in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the full suite of tools offered in GCP (heavy focus on GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and PubSub).
- Build and maintain the custom API for other teams to interact with the platform.
- Built a custom operator for Kubernetes to update infrastructure configurations and migrate specialized workloads with zero downtime.

### Site Reliability Engineer @ Flywheel
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Omaha, Nebraska
- Created monitoring and analysis automation for a single view of platform health.
- Worked with the GCP engineering teams on platform issues and improvements to GCP.
- Assisted in building an escalation path for support to engineering to decrease engineer impact with bugs across the entire platform. Patched bugs depending on urgency and overall customer impact. This shifted hundreds of engineering requests monthly to a handful yearly.
- Automated thousands of Linux VMs on multiple clouds using Chef scripts.

### Threat Detection Analyst @ NTT Security
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Analyzed network traffic for businesses around the US region.
- Rewrote primary log search tool (wrapper around MapReduce) with a more defined API to give SOC analysts more control over log analysis.
- Created various utilities for analyst research using Python, web crawling, and public APIs.

### Systems Engineer @ 12 Points Technologies, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
- Provided system administration services and engineering consulting to 30+ businesses in the area.
- Automated repeat processes using PowerShell and Jenkins to decrease deployment and configuration times by 70%.

### IA Intern @ Union Pacific Railroad
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- Transferred 35 quarterly audit scripts written in Perl to Python for improved performance and maintainability.
- Developed an internal application to analyze all devices on the network to audit unknown devices on the network. Written using Python, AngularJS, and Grunt.

### Systems Intern @ National Indemnity Company
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Provide IT support to fellow colleagues.  Assisted employees of National Indemnity Company and Berkshire Hathaway with any technical issues they experience with any business systems.


## Education
### Cybersecurity
University of Nebraska at Omaha


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cody-kaup

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Last updated: 2026-03-22