# Sid R.

> Software Engineer | Kubernetes Infrastructure & Platform Engineering | Python, Observability, Cloud-Native | US Army Veteran

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sidr

My day-to-day spans infrastructure and application layers: architecting K8s environments for air-gapped deployments with DoD STIG compliance, developing platform plugins with Vue.js frontends and Node.js BFF layers, configuring CI/CD pipelines that ship the complete platform across environments, and building out Grafana and Prometheus monitoring to keep it all reliable.

Before engineering, I spent 5 years in the Army managing satellite and radio communications systems for 120+ personnel. Diagnosing problems under pressure, building redundancy into everything, and keeping critical systems running when failure wasn't an option. That experience shapes how I think about infrastructure. Reliability first, then iterate.

Earlier in my career, I helped launch mobile vaccination clinics for underserved communities at a healthtech startup and built an operational database processing 23,000+ evacuee records during the Afghanistan evacuation crisis. I'm drawn to work where reliability matters and the stakes are real.

Currently pursuing my MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (part-time) with a focus on deepening my backend and distributed systems fundamentals.

Stack: Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus, Node.js, GitLab CI/CD

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Beast Code
Jan 2023 – Present
• Architect and maintain multi-environment Kubernetes infrastructure (dev, staging, prod) for a greenfield digital twin and simulation platform in a high-compliance defense environment

• Design deployment strategies for air-gapped and on-prem environments, ensuring DoD STIG compliance and integrating with hardened container registries (Iron Bank)

• Build core platform microservices for technical manual search and 3D model visualizations (TypeScript/Vue, Node, C#)

• Establish service reliability via observability (Grafana, Prometheus) and incident response

### Project Lead - Data Analytics @ Pacific Council on International Policy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Architected and managed an operational database system processing 23,000+ evacuee records during the Afghanistan evacuation crisis, supporting real-time operational decision-making

• Established data management best practices and authored reports for congressional offices & media outlets, yielding data-driven predictions & actionable insights

### Product Manager @ Guild Financial
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
• Led MVP launch and product marketing for fintech platform, increasing user conversion by 372% (Seed)

### Project Manager @ SnapMedTech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Launched logistics infrastructure for 239 mobile vaccination clinics across 6 states, reaching underserved communities during COVID-19 rollout (Series C)

### Signals Communications Supervisor (Satellite & Radio Systems) @ US Army
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
• Led 120+ personnel in technical operations and real-time incident response for satellite and radio communications systems across high-stakes deployments

• Managed system reliability in environments with zero tolerance for downtime, developing troubleshooting protocols and backup procedures under operational pressure


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's degree
UCLA


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11