Emily W.

About Emily W.

A non-traditional background in the service industry, operations, and logistics gave me the observational instincts and communication skills that now define how I work in tech. Today I lead DevOps at Orion Planning, where I own infrastructure, production incident response, and release operations for a web and mobile platform built on AWS. I specialize in building custom automations with Python, Lambda, and APIs; managing infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation; and coordinating complex changes across teams and integrations. Increasingly, I\'m leveraging AI tooling to deepen my individual problem-solving capacity and identify infrastructure improvement opportunities.

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer

   Orion

   Jul 2025 — Present

   Leading a DevOps team of three — including two offshore engineers — managing sprint planning, task grooming, assignment, and code review. Serving as the primary escalation point for production incidents and for production-level work requiring elevated permissions, and owning all Change Approval Board submissions for production releases.Coordinating cross-functional infrastructure changes including SAML certificate rotations and REST API credential management across internal systems and external integrations. Architecting and implementing cloud solutions on AWS — including S3 data migrations, Athena access provisioning, and CloudFront distributions for API cipher security compliance — supporting a web and mobile application platform.Continuously driving process improvement through automation and the practical application of AI tooling to accelerate problem-solving and surface configuration optimization opportunities. Facilitating daily DevOps standups and collaborate closely with broader engineering and product teams.

Education

• The University of Kansas

  Full Stack Certificate - Web Development

  2020 — 2020

• Creighton University

  BA, Spanish & Hispanic Studies, Business Administration

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Event Planning
• Problem Solving
• Cultural Sensitivity
• Netsuite
• Customer Service
• Research
• Nonprofits
• International Exchange
• Facebook
• Wordpress
• Bilingual-Spanish
• Organization
• Youth Development
• Social Networking
• Civic Engagement
• Proposal Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Microsoft Office
• Non-Profits
• Editing
• Event Management
• Cultural Competency