Yrik-Max Valentonis
Hands-on Lead for Release Management, Quality, and DevOps
- Role
- Senior Manager of Platform Engineering at Fullsteam
- Location
- Tampa, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yrik-Max Valentonis
Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master (SSM), Software Release Management, DevOps, Quality Assurance.(Cartoonist and poet.) Max is a hands on servant-leader who leads teams through communication and feedback. He sees every internal team as spoke on a wheel leading to the customer. He facilitates interactions in order to reach consensus on achieving the best possible outcome within necessary time-frames. He encourages his team to learn more and new technologies without dismissing tried and true approaches. A constant growth of knowledge motivates and inspires workers to achieve better solutions.Max earned his Bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature from the University of South Florida in 1993 and his Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Naropa University in 1995. He has enhanced his studies through corporate and external training in: SAFe Scaled Agile Scrum Master, Agile, SCRUM, UNIX, C, PHP, Groovy, requirements analysis, configuration management, DevOps, and automated testing. Max has earned his black belt in jujitsu. Max transitioned his career path from academia to IT in 1997. He has performed the roles of game designer, customer support, developer, release engineer, quality assurance, and technical manager in start-ups, mid-size, and Fortune 500 companies. He has worked in the business domains of telecom, credit card processing, workflow management, game design, and worker’s compensation.Max focuses his efforts in finding ways to improve quality through automation, investigation, and education. He continually expands his knowledge of development processes in order to support his team in creating world class software.
Experience
Senior Manager of Platform Engineering
Apr 2025 — Present · Auburn, AL, US
Practical, proactive, and action-oriented leader with a strong focus on mentoring and empowering teams to achieve operational excellence. • Skilled in conducting risk assessments and prioritizing initiatives in unpredictable environments to ensure business continuity and resilience. • Architected solutions that align with corporate initiatives, driving new revenue streams while ensuring strict adherence to PCI and NSA compliance requirements. • Championed process simplification through automation and the development of repeatable workflows, enhancing efficiency and scalability across the organization.
Education
Naropa University
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Poetry, Prose, and Poetics
1993 — 1995
University of South Florida
Bachelor's degree, English and American Literature
1991 — 1993
Skills
- Documentation
- Sharepoint
- Testing
- Soa
- Web Services
- Visual Studio
- Databases
- Release Management
- Operating Systems
- Software Documentation
- Sdlc
- Java
- Css
- .net
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Ms Project
- Vss
- Tomcat
- Configuration Management
- Weblogic
- Agile Methodologies
- Oracle
- Requirements Analysis
- Spring
- Windows
- T-Sql
- Unix
- Problem Solving
- Change Management
- Sql
- Visio
- Linux
- Integration
- Web Applications
- Web Development
- Xml
- Database Design
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Sql Server
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