George Cagle

George Cagle has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. George is currently working as the Director of Platform Engineering at Kitu Systems, Inc. Since November 2021, George has also held the position of Senior Site Reliability Engineer at the same company. In this role, they have designed, built, and maintained tooling and processes to ensure operational health across cloud resources and IoT devices.

Before joining Kitu Systems, Inc., George worked at Rocket Mortgage as a Senior Systems Engineer from April 2021 to November 2021. In this role, they focused on automating and securing containerized AWS ECS and EKS workloads using various tools and technologies.

Prior to Rocket Mortgage, George served as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Integration Innovation, Inc. from November 2018 to April 2021. At Decor Steals, they worked as a DevOps Engineer from May 2016 to November 2020. George also has experience as a Senior Systems Engineer and Senior Systems Administrator at Simple Helix, where they led a cross-functional development team and implemented monitoring and observability tools.

George's early work experience includes serving as a Systems Support Technician at Sonoco from April 2008 to October 2012. In this role, they provided hardware and software support, carried out infrastructure upgrades, and managed an ERP implementation project.

Overall, George Cagle has a strong background in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, and DevOps. George has experience in tooling, automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management in various industry sectors.

George Cagle completed their education chronologically as follows:

From 2009 to 2011, they attended Calhoun Community College, where they obtained an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) degree in Computer and Information Sciences.

From 2011 to 2013, they attended Athens State University, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science.

In addition to their formal education, George Cagle has obtained several certifications. In December 2020, they completed the DevOps Foundations certification from LinkedIn. In November 2019, they obtained the CompTIA Linux+ certification from CompTIA. In November 2018, they achieved the Security+ certification, also from CompTIA. In September 2020, George obtained the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification from Red Hat. Lastly, in December 2015, they acquired the AWS Certified Sysops Administrator certification from Kryterion.