Spencer Gilbert

Spencer Gilbert / Platform & Infra

I used to file the tickets. Now I fix the causes.

Platform engineer, release infrastructure + dev tooling. I make the systems that ship software simpler, more reliable, and harder to compromise.

Timeline

  1. Platform Engineer · Mux

    Remote

  2. Software Engineer II, Agent Delivery · Datadog

    Remote

    • Reduced Agent release cadence from six to four weeks, maintaining a tighter active version window across millions of global deployments
    • Owned release pipeline infrastructure and public artifact publishing tooling, including OS package repositories and container image distribution
    • Led security hardening of release infrastructure, reducing human and system access by an order of magnitude without disrupting engineer workflows
    • Drove modernization of legacy release tooling, migrating Python and Bash systems to Go, and contributed to the datadog-agent's adoption of Bazel as part of a broader build system modernization effort
    • Drove team adoption of AI-assisted development tooling, measurably increasing delivery velocity without compromising release stability

  3. Software Engineer II, Vector · Datadog

    Remote

    • Authored Vector's initial OpenTelemetry integration, maintaining compatibility across rapidly evolving OTel and Kubernetes ecosystem versions
    • Owned Vector's deployment artifact ecosystem including Helm charts, Docker images, and Linux packages, establishing operational best practices and scaling guidance for a high-performance Rust-based observability pipeline
    • Supported deployment and operations for a large open-source community across a project with 21.5K GitHub stars, helping enterprise users scale and operate Vector in production environments

  4. Senior Infrastructure Engineer · Optoro

    Washington, D.C. | Hybrid

    • Built Kubernetes-based production infrastructure from the ground up, including tooling, best practices, and underlying private cloud hardware
    • Introduced and owned ArgoCD, driving fully automated staging environment provisioning alongside self-hosted CI/CD administration via Terraform and GitLab CI
    • Partnered with application teams to reduce infrastructure friction, embedding directly with Ruby and Python engineers to unblock development and resolve cross-cutting dependencies

  5. Infrastructure Engineer · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.

  6. Junior Infrastructure Engineer · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.

  7. Senior Platform Stability Associate · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.

    • Drove blameless postmortem culture and led cross-team incident response, consistently maintaining SLA commitments through faster time to recovery
    • Owned on-call monitoring and alert triage across a distributed production environment
    • Upskilled engineering teams on Docker, Consul, Vault, Terraform, and internal deployment tooling

  8. Platform Stability Associate · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.

  9. eCommerce Operations Analyst · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.

  10. Customer Care Associate · Optoro

    Washington, D.C.