Derek Bartlett

Now

DevOps Engineer at Revenue Solutions, Inc., working remotely from Grand Rapids. Active across seven client implementations and roughly seventy environments at any given time.

Studying for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate (target 2026) and putting reps in on infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration to round out the platform engineering side.

Open to new roles. The right fit is somewhere I can build the paved path rather than just walk it.

Projects

Representative systems I’ve built, operated, or used to sharpen platform engineering skills.

• Self-hosted homelab — retired

  Single-server Proxmox host with RAID 1 storage, every service running as its own VM: TrueNAS, Jellyfin, the Sonarr stack, Home Assistant, and Pi-hole. Treated my own kit like prod — segmentation, snapshots, and recovery practiced where the consequences are personal rather than political.

• LoRaWAN IoT network — research, CMU

  Designed and deployed end-to-end LoRaWAN infrastructure at CMU’s DISCR Lab alongside peer institutions. Database, MQTT broker, Grafana dashboards, and the containerized services tying it together.

• Multi-environment delivery platform — work, RSI

  Azure DevOps release pipelines running daily .NET, Java, SQL, SSRS, and SSIS deployments across seventy-plus individually configured environments for twelve government client implementations. Pipelines, gates, configuration management, and the documentation that lets developers self-serve.

• Self-service deployment tooling — work, RSI

  PowerShell GUI utilities that replaced manual multi-server deployment workflows, plus environment reset utilities that take routine ops work off the team’s plate. Paving-the-path work, before I had the vocabulary for it.

Skills

CI/CD & DevOps. Azure DevOps end-to-end — Pipelines, Repos, Boards, work-item customization. Release management, SDLC process design, JAMS scheduling.

Cloud & IaC. Azure and AWS in production. Terraform Associate in progress; building real-world reps where I can.

Infrastructure. Windows Server 2016–2022, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS. VMware ESXi/vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox.

Scripting. PowerShell as a first language for tooling. SQL daily. .NET deployment pipelines. Working exposure to JavaScript, Python, React, and HTML/CSS.

Data & observability. SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS. Grafana, Kibana, application log analysis.

Platforms. Git. Linux on Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine. ServiceNow, OpenText Content Server.

Experience

• DevOps Engineer Revenue Solutions, Inc. · Feb 2021 – present

  Building and maintaining multi-environment delivery infrastructure for enterprise tax and revenue applications serving government agencies. Each client implementation spans five to six individually configured tiers (Dev, Test, MOD, Preprod, Production) with full lifecycle ownership from initial provisioning through production release.

  Design and maintain Azure DevOps release pipelines executing daily deployments across all client environments, supporting ten to fifteen developers with environment-specific configuration. Built developer self-service tooling and environment reset utilities to remove ops dependency from routine tasks. Wrote PowerShell GUI deployment utilities replacing manual multi-server workflows. Customized Azure DevOps process templates, work-item types, and approval gates. Authored release pipeline documentation enabling team self-service. Provisioned and configured new client environments through standardized cloning. Managed infrastructure patching, application configuration, and server maintenance across on-prem and cloud-hosted client environments.

• Systems Engineer II D9 Technologies · May 2020 – Jan 2021

  Provisioned and maintained customer environments using Windows Server, VMware, and Hyper-V. Conducted security monitoring via Sophos and managed patching cycles across client infrastructure.

• B.S., Information Technology Central Michigan University · Aug 2019

  Specialization in Systems Administration and Networking; Dean’s List. Research at the DISCR Lab on LoRaWAN IoT network infrastructure alongside peer institutions.

Off the clock

Community symphonic band — same satisfaction as shipping a clean release, just with reeds and brass. 3D printing — iteration loops are short and the failure modes are visible. Cooking — treating recipes like systems. Long urban walks — the best debugger I’ve found for problems that don’t fit on a screen. Gaming, and streaming gaming on Twitch.

Contact

Best way to reach me: derek@derekbartlett.com. You can also reach me on LinkedIn, catch the code experiments on GitHub, or watch a stream on Twitch.