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  <title>Tait Hoglund | DevOps Resume</title>
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  <h1>Tait Hoglund | Platform / DevOps Engineer</h1>
  <div class="contact">
    Oklahoma City, OK | 651.233.8184 | <a href="mailto:hogtai@gmail.com">hogtai@gmail.com</a><br>
    <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/tait-hoglund/">linkedin.com/in/tait-hoglund</a> |
    <a href="https://gitlab.com/tait.hoglund">Gitlab.com/tait.hoglund</a>
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    <p class="highlight">Delivering Applications & Services at High Velocity</p>
    <p>Optimizing System Performance, Stability, & Reliability</p>
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      Cloud-native technician with 100+ documented cloud engineering projects automating and streamlining software development and infrastructure management through CI/CD. Proficient in Linux, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tools. Proven ability to increase efficiency, reduce downtime, and drive IT-driven results.
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    <h2>Technical Skills</h2>
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      <li><strong>Cloud Platforms:</strong> AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.), GCP (GKE, Cloud Deploy, etc.), Fastly, Kubernetes</li>
      <li><strong>DevOps Tools:</strong> Terraform, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, Cloud Deploy, Cloud Build, Kaniko</li>
      <li><strong>Monitoring/Security:</strong> New Relic, Vault, Doppler, Signal Sciences</li>
      <li><strong>Networking/Web Servers:</strong> VPC, Load Balancing, NGINX, API Gateway</li>
      <li><strong>Languages:</strong> Python, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, JSON, Boto3</li>
      <li><strong>Testing:</strong> Locust, Trivy, SonarCloud, Fastly VCL</li>
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    <h2>Featured Projects</h2>
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      <li><strong>3-Tier HA Architecture:</strong> Built using AWS EC2, ASGs, Launch Templates across AZs</li>
      <li><strong>Kubernetes Microservices:</strong> Deployed Redis, Postgres, Apache services via MicroK8s</li>
      <li><strong>E-Commerce Platform (Terraform):</strong> HA 2-tier app with EC2, Subnets, Route Tables, etc.</li>
      <li><strong>Jenkins Pipelines:</strong> CI/CD pipeline using Terraform Cloud + GitHub + AWS</li>
      <li><strong>Serverless Order Fulfillment:</strong> REST API + Lambda + SQS/SNS + DynamoDB</li>
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    <h2>Professional Experience</h2>

    <h3>Site Reliability Engineer | Life.Church | Oklahoma City, OK | 2023–Present</h3>
    <ul>
      <li>Boosted system availability to 99.97% and reduced error rates across 24 apps to under 1%</li>
      <li>Cut build and delivery time by 50% through optimized CI/CD pipelines</li>
      <li>Reduced MTTR by 75% by developing runbooks and improving incident response workflows</li>
      <li>Lowered infra and dev costs by 15% through Kubernetes migration</li>
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    <h3>Director of Operations & IT | Trout Lake Camps | Pine River, MN | 2014–2023</h3>
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      <li>Directed 3-site operations, managing 9 reports and 500+ seasonal staff</li>
      <li>Cut server misconfigurations by 50% using Terraform/IaC workflows</li>
      <li>Improved build times by 75% via automated cloud CI/CD pipelines</li>
      <li>Maintained 99.97% uptime through DR planning and autoscaling</li>
      <li>Led $5.2M budget and three site expansions, improving customer satisfaction to 97.5%</li>
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    <h2>Certifications</h2>
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      <li>Certified Kubernetes Administrator (In Progress)</li>
      <li>Certified Cloud Engineer – Level Up In Tech</li>
      <li>AWS Certified Developer Associate – AWS</li>
      <li>Terraform Associate – HashiCorp</li>
      <li>Linux Essentials – Linux Professional Institute</li>
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    <h2>Education</h2>
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      <li>MA in Leadership – Bethel University</li>
      <li>BA in Business Administration – Charter University</li>
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