# Will Refvem > Software engineer exploring the brave new world of AI Location: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/willrefvem Software engineer looking for an opportunity to work on Kubernetes and applications developed for it. ## Work Experience ### Senior Platform Engineer @ CData Software Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 DevOps/Infrastructure role for mature startup. Responsible for maintenance and uptime of SaaS product Built and managed CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. Scripting and other coding in PowerShell, Go. Managed integration of in-house developed services with Azure services. Responsible for platform security, identity management with Azure. ### Senior Software Engineer @ StormForge - πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Worked on Optimize Live, an ML-based monitoring solution for Kubernetes. My role was developing and maintaining components that ran on customer clusters and phoned home to a StormForge backend. ### Senior Engineer @ Hillrom Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cary, North Carolina, United States Developed a Kubernetes operator to deploy dozens of micro services on a wide variety of Kubernetes distributions, along with tools for an opinionated Kubernetes installation experience designed for teams with little to no Kubernetes experience. My role was a combination of architectural work and hands-on coding in Go. ### Senior Software Engineer @ CloudBees Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Worked on Jenkins X, a next-generation open source CI/CD tool for Kubernetes. I was a software engineer, working in the trenches everyday coding in Go, while also contributing to coordinating with other open source projects that Jenkins X either depended or interacted with. ### Solutions Architect @ CloudBees Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Worked with the sales team to match customer needs to CloudBees solutions. This required technical mastery of the CloudBees product suite as well as cloud technologies such as Kubernetes. In addition, I participated in the creation and delivery of a new professional services offering around Kubernetes, working as part of a cross-functional team. In my abundant free time I contributed to Jenkins X, an open source project sponsored by CloudBees. My contributions include Bitbucket integration, which necessitated the creation of a client library in Go. ### Application Development Solution Architect @ Red Hat Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh, North Carolina Customer-facing technical resource attached to sales team. Responsible for product demos and deep dives for JBoss Middleware portfolio as well as OpenShift Container Platform, as well as thought leadership in modern application development on topics such as DevOps, microservices, and digital transformation. ### Senior Web Developer @ City of Raleigh Municipal Government Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh, NC I managed a broad portfolio of both internal and public-facing web apps, including the award-winning raleighnc.gov. My role in COR's web team was as a backend developer. Our apps comprise an ecosystem that includes apps built with bleeding-edge JavaScript technologies like React, Backbone and Ember as well as RESTful APIs built with Django and legacy Java EE apps. We also steadily moved many of our internal and externally-facing apps to Drupal. ### Software Engineer @ North Carolina State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 At NC State I did Django web development. Projects included a web app for the North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Foundation's Market-Based Cooperation Initiative. ### Database Administrator @ Duke University Health System Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ## Education ### Computer Programming Certificate in Computer Science NCSU Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Classical Languages Calvin University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/will-refvem-2b70884b --- Source: https://flows.cv/willrefvem JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/willrefvem/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22