# Levi Bowser > Staff Software Engineer - Platform/DevOps Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/levi I love solving problems with efficient, effective, and elegant solutions; good clean code is good clean fun. AI & AR will blow our minds. Automation with DevOps, CloudOps, and software/infrastructure architecture is where it's at. 'HoloRekognition' (Augmented Reality Graduate Capstone project: https://github.com/LeviBowser/HoloRekognition): a facial detection, tracking, and recognition application for Microsoft Hololens (v1) Mixed Reality hardware using Unity and employing Microsoft Azure’s Face API Machine Learning capabilities to train models and display relevant information to users in an augmented reality three-dimensional space. I'm convinced augmented reality will eventually change the world in every aspect of our daily lives, both directly and indirectly. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer - Platform/DevOps @ Extend Jan 2024 – Present - Developed comprehensive automated pipelines for CI/CD, incorporating version tracking, deployment, and error alerting to ensure seamless infrastructure-as-code practices. - Defined and enforced versioning, deployment, and Git branching strategies, enhancing developer productivity and codebase integrity across the organization. - Mentored engineers on coding standards, best practices, and DevOps methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and growth. ### DevOps Engineering Manager @ Extend Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 - Elevated collaboration and satisfaction among engineering teams through regular strategy meetings, improving feedback ratings by 35%. - Contributed to the strategic architectural design and implementation of scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions and automation. - Set project expectations and feature development roadmap, including prioritization and scope definition. - Established and structured role expectations for the DevOps team, increasing team velocity by 20% ### DevOps Engineer @ Extend Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Promoted within four months due to exemplary leadership and performance. - Optimized feature testing deployments, reducing duration from 20 minutes to 90 seconds for 150+ engineers, thereby minimizing team-level collisions, re-deploys, and troubleshooting. - Accelerated new environment setup speed by 50% through process optimization and documentation creation. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pariveda Solutions Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Dallas, Texas, United States - CloudOps/DevOps/Full Stack Engineer; VueJS, NodeJS, Javascript, Mocha, Jest, AWS Technologies, Terraform, Serverless, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, XL Release - Organize team-level task and feature refinement, including prioritization and scope definition using Agile methodology. - Guide junior engineers in adhering to coding standards, best practices, code reviews, pull requests, knowledge transfers, pair programming, and career growth through individual one-on-one’s. - and more... ### Software Engineer II @ Pariveda Solutions Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Dallas, Texas, United States - CloudOps/DevOps Engineer utilizing AWS Technologies, Terraform, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, XL Release - Selected to join a CloudOps/DevOps team to migrate and convert multiple microservice AWS infrastructure stacks to Terraform (infrastructure as code) and utilize an updated Jenkins continuous integration and deployment pipeline. - and more... ### Software Engineer I @ Pariveda Solutions Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dallas, Texas, United States - Promoted six months early by virtue of exemplary expertise, growth, value generation, and performance - Full Stack Engineer using AWS Technologies, NodeJS, VueJS, Javascript, CSS/Less, Mocha, Jest - Directed and developed a CCPA-compliance integration system through the SDLC through extensive requirement gathering and multi-team collaboration - and more... ### Graduate Data Analytics and Machine Learning Teaching Assistant @ Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Provo, Utah Area - Technologies: Excel, Tableau, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio - Taught classes during professor absence; including one-on-one student tutoring of course content. - Modified and updated course content and textbooks to more thoroughly explain difficult concepts or topics for students. ### Graduate Software Engineer Intern @ Walmart Labs Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Arkansas - Technologies: Java, MySQL, ReactJS, JMeter, Selenium - Worked within an agile team to integrate and update private brand product development processes by developing web applications and RESTful APIs for hundreds of suppliers. Automated unit testing using Selenium, Cucumber, Spring, and Maven frameworks. - Used JMeter to measure load-balancing and stress-handling capabilities of a web application by multithreading hundreds of requests and analyzing bottleneck data. ### Web Developer @ EKR Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah Area - Technologies: PHP, Laravel Blade, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery - Work within an agile team to develop, produce, and maintain the Micro Focus Corporate site that was awarded the 2016 WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development, and its subsidiary companies’ sites: Novell, NetIQ, Attachmate, and SUSE - Reduced manual file integration and creation by 50% by leading a successful web integration project to automate template creation using PHP, XML, XSL, and bootstrap - Reduced number of page edits by 67% by developing code to automate the addition, removal, and sorting of events based on dates, which was then integrated into another site at a later date, using PHP and HTML - Saved an additional man-hour during the QA process by automating banner updates and reducing page edits to one file, down from three, by using PHP and HTML ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Management Information Systems, General Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Systems, General Brigham Young University Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 ### General Study in General Studies Brigham Young University–Hawaii Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/levibowser - GitHub: https://github.com/LeviBowser?tab=repositories --- Source: https://flows.cv/levi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/levi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22