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I am a builder with over 25 years of experience in software engineering and information technology. I currently work as a Distinguished Engineer at GEICO, where I build awesome developer experiences.

I find joy in helping engineering teams deliver at their peak efficiency. I contribute regularly to open source and maintain a project called nektos/act that developers use to run GitHub Actions locally.

Open source projects

• - cdklabs/cdk-ecs-codedeploy — CDK constructs to create CodeDeploy ECS deployments
• - nektos/act — Run your GitHub Actions locally
• - stelligent/mu — Continuous delivery of microservices on AWS
• - stelligent/pipeline-dashboard — Simple dashboard for pipelines on AWS

Publications

• - AWS Well-Architected DevOps Guidance — Version 1.0, September 20, 2023
• - Deployment Pipeline Reference Architecture — Version 1.0, January 30, 2023
• - JAX-RS: Java™ API for RESTful Web Services — Version 2.1 Final Draft, June 15, 2017

Talks

• - AWS Summit DC 2021: Improve the developer experience with AWS CDK
• - Run GitHub Actions locally for fast feedback - GitHub Satellite 2020
• - DeliveryConf 2019: The Last Bottleneck of Continuous Delivery
• - AWS re:Invent 2019: From monolith to cloud native in 30 minutes or less! (DVC05)
• - AWS Summit 2019 - Santa Clara: Continuous Delivery on AWS with Zero Downtime (DEV10)
• - AWS re:Invent 2018: Containerized Workloads Made Easy with ECS, Fargate and EKS
• - AWS re:Invent 2017: Using AWS to Achieve Both Autonomy and Governance at 3M (DEV332)

Webinars

• - AWS Containers from the Couch | Builders Series
• - AWS Heroes Panel | Open Cloud Innovations
• - Microservices as Containers on AWS...for Fun and Profit
• - AWS re:Invent 2017 DevOps Re:Cap
• - Dos and Don'ts for DevOps Automation on AWS
• - AWS re:Invent 2018 DevOps Re:Cap

Podcasts

• - Last Week in AWS: Creating 'Quinntainers' with Casey Lee (Ep. 346)
• - DevOps on AWS Radio: Serverless Delivery with Casey Lee (Episode 2)
• - DevOps on AWS Radio: mu - DevOps on AWS tool (Episode 10)
• - DevOps on AWS Radio: Containers on AWS with Casey Lee (Ep. 21)

Blog posts

• - Cost optimization for Kubernetes on AWS
• - Faster Feedback for Delivery Pipelines with Skaffold
• - Pipelines For Container Applications Made Easy with mu
• - Announcing EKS Support in mu
• - Introducing mu: a tool for managing your microservices in AWS
• - Microservice testing with mu: injecting quality into the pipeline
• - Microservice databases with mu
• - Service discovery for microservices with mu
• - Serverless Delivery: Architecture (part 1 of 3)
• - Serverless Delivery: Bootstrapping the Pipeline (part 2 of 3)
• - Serverless Delivery: Orchestrating the Pipeline (part 3 of 3)
• - Microservices Platform with ECS
• - Drift Detection in Continuous Delivery Pipelines
• - More DZone posts...