# Lee Chapman
DevOps Lead | Senior DevOps Engineer | AI Infrastructure | Cloud Platforms

Sacramento, CA | Remote  
Contact via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-chapman-583ab796

## Professional Summary

DevOps Lead with 14+ years of technical experience and 5+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in semiconductor and storage.

Expert in Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, and Go with a track record of automating deployments, improving platform reliability, and leading infrastructure initiatives. I take priorities, timelines, and the weight of the work seriously, and stay clear-headed under pressure with a real work-life balance.

**Node.js since 2018** for backend services on an **internal engineering test platform**; production experience with **Kubernetes operators** (RabbitMQ, Redis, CloudNativePG, MongoDB, GitHub ARC) and **CSI** (including **TrueNAS CSI** upstream engagement).

Full-lifecycle ownership from design through deployment, monitoring, and incident response in mission-critical production.

Strong in infrastructure automation, performance characterization, root cause analysis, and cloud-native platforms.

## Core Technical Skills

**AI-Assisted Development:** Cursor (IDE, CLI), GitHub Copilot (IDE, CLI); MCP servers  
**AI/ML Infrastructure:** Freya: containerizing existing projects (Ollama, SwarmUI, ComfyUI) for Kubernetes on NVIDIA CUDA; GPU scheduling (nvidia.com/gpu), NVIDIA Device Plugin; PVC/CSI for model storage  
**Automation & Tools:** Ansible, Helm, Terraform, IaC, GitOps, Fleet  
**Binary Storage:** Artifactory, Harbor, GitLab Packages  
**CI/CD & Version Control:** GitLab CI (container image builds), GitHub Actions  
**Cloud & Virtualization:** Azure, Google Cloud, Proxmox VE, VMware, Hyper-V  
**Collaboration:** JIRA, Confluence  
**Infrastructure & Orchestration:** Kubernetes (RKE2, Rancher), Docker; operators (RabbitMQ, Redis, CloudNativePG / Postgres, MongoDB, GitHub ARC); DataDog on Kubernetes (company deployments)  
**Languages:** Python, Go, Rust, Bash, PowerShell, Java; **Node.js**; HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Angular  
**Observability & Monitoring:** DataDog, New Relic, Splunk, ELK Stack, Grafana Stack  
**Systems & Storage:** Linux, Windows, Networking, Storage (NFS, iSCSI), **CSI** (TrueNAS / multi-node NFS); open-source CSI contributions (see Portfolio)  

## Professional Experience

**DevOps Lead** | Solidigm | Rancho Cordova, CA | December 2021 – Present  
• Lead DevOps practices for engineering teams; design and maintain internal tooling and automation for large-scale application and infrastructure deployment  
• **Node.js backend** for an internal **test platform** web application; APIs and integration with engineering workflows (**Node.js since 2018** across roles)  
• Deploy and operate **Kubernetes operators** in production (RabbitMQ, Redis, CloudNativePG, MongoDB, GitHub ARC); **DataDog** on clusters per company standards  
• Automate deployment workflows improving reliability and velocity through CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Kubernetes)  
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams on system design, capacity planning, and launch readiness  
• Drive strategic planning and continuous improvement of deployment processes and operational practices  
• Build and maintain distributed systems infrastructure; measure availability, latency, system health; support incident response and blameless postmortems  

**DevOps Engineer** | Intel Corporation | Folsom, CA | April 2020 – December 2021  
• Automated application and infrastructure deployment for storage and semiconductor engineering environments using Python, Go, and Terraform  
• Partnered with development and infrastructure teams to innovate deployment processes and tools  
• Supported full lifecycle management from design through deployment and operation for distributed systems  
• Implemented monitoring and observability for production; supported capacity management and launch reviews  

**Software Engineer** | Intel Corporation | Folsom, CA | May 2019 – April 2020  
• Developed web applications and tooling for test automation and internal platforms  
• Collaborated on requirements, design, and support for delivered features improving developer efficiency  

**Validation Engineer** | Intel Corporation | Folsom, CA | January 2018 – May 2019  
• Designed test automation frameworks for storage devices; managed project codebase and automation infrastructure  
• Applied systematic problem-solving and root-cause analysis in validation of storage and firmware systems  

**Test Technician L3** | Kelly Services (Intel contract) | Folsom, CA | November 2015 – January 2018  
• Executed firmware and storage device validation; created and maintained test automation scripts and infrastructure  
• Supported large-scale validation environments and defect triage  

**Software Test Engineer / Test Technician** | Adecco (HPE contract) | Roseville, CA | February 2011 – October 2015  
• Developed and maintained automated test frameworks; wrote and debugged test automation scripts for firmware and security validation  
• Monitored test environments, reported defects, and maintained R&D systems supporting large-scale validation operations  

## Education

Bachelor of Science, Electronics & Communications Engineering Technology | ITT Technical Institute, Rancho Cordova | 2010–2012  
Associate of Science, Computer & Electronics Engineering Technology | ITT Technical Institute, Rancho Cordova | 2008–2010  

## Interests

Anime, gaming, and continuous learning, currently using AI to solve problems via DataKnifeAI.

## Portfolio

GitHub: https://github.com/DataKnifeAI | GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dk-raas/dkai  

**CSI / storage:** [TrueNAS CSI #3](https://github.com/truenas/truenas-csi/issues/3) (multi-node NFS / ControllerPublishVolume), [#4](https://github.com/truenas/truenas-csi/issues/4) (StorageClass mapAllUser / mapAllGroup)  

**Infra / GitOps:** [rancher-deploy](https://github.com/DataKnifeAI/rancher-deploy) (Proxmox → RKE2, Rancher, TrueNAS storage) · [gitops-tools](https://github.com/DataKnifeAI/gitops-tools) · [gitops-dev](https://github.com/DataKnifeAI/gitops-dev)  

**Agents / monitoring:** [pulseblade](https://github.com/DataKnifeAI/pulseblade) (Rust, Apache-2.0: collectors, hub, Postgres journal, MCP)