Joshua Schipper

About Joshua Schipper

Automation Engineering Manager with 20 years of experience in architecture, development…

Experience

1. Chief IT Engineer Applications

   Kaiser Permanente

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Working in the core DevOps team to automate DevOps tools and how our customers use them. Rearcitected the chef infra for the core tools team. Allowing for less code and more automation while simplifying how the end-users use the code. Built an end-to-end solution to automate the management and deployment of the Jenkins agent fleet used by all KP digital teams to deploy their code. Managed and improved the Nginx auth proxy and cache for the internal employee website. Got the auth and caching improved along with an overall speed improvement of 27% by finding inefficient code and improving network routing and nationwide placement of key infrastructure. Built an ansible skeleton framework to improve developer adoption for migration to ansible form chef and puppet and custom scripts.

Education

• Life

  Life and a lot of hard work., Anything I can get my hands on.

  1996 — 2019

• Lincoln High School

  High School Diploma, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Xml
• Quality Assurance
• Automation
• Visual Basic
• C#
• Wcf
• Chef
• Javascript
• Soa
• Agile Project Management
• Sql
• Devops
• Cicd
• Business Process
• Agile Methodologies
• Architecture
• Sdlc
• Databases
• C++
• Jquery
• T-Sql
• Visual Studio
• Iis
• Test-Kitchen
• Crystal Reports
• Openstack
• Software Development
• Access
• Packer.io
• Powershell
• Linux
• Nunit
• .net
• Web Services
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Integration
• Asp.net