Stephen McKitrick

Stephen McKitrick

DevOps Engineer | Serverless Architect | Infrastructure Automation

More about me

U.S. Army Master Sergeant (E-8) turned self-taught full-stack developer with TS/SCI clearance. Proven at leading teams and delivering data-driven results under extreme pressure. Now channeling that discipline into AWS, Terraform, serverless, and AI tooling — shipping real solutions like the BusBuddy C# app that cut operational errors 30%.

  • Data Analytics (SQL · Tableau · Python)
  • Data Automation & Tooling
  • AI Cloud & DevOps (Code Platoon)
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Agentic Dev (context · plan · verify)
  • Leadership at Scale

Wiley, Colorado 719-640-2230 bigessfour@gmail.com LinkedIn

Experience
Preview Key Engineer Experience
  • Transportation Manager — Wiley School District · Led 12-person team; built BusBuddy (C# + SQL) and cut errors 30%.
  • Master Sergeant (E-8) — U.S. Army · $20M asset accountability across 50+ missions; automated inventory and payroll systems.
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Syncfusion EJ2 Accordion
Projects
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Town of Wiley Website
Angular · Amplify · AppSync

Production site for townofwiley.gov — SPA on AWS Amplify with AppSync CMS and serverless Lambdas.

Live site →
Wiley Widget
Blazor WASM · Amplify · Syncfusion

Municipal finance workspace — Blazor WebAssembly on AWS Amplify with Aurora, thin API, and Syncfusion UI.

Live app →
BusBuddy
C# · SQL · Operations

Real-time reporting app — 30% error reduction in district transportation.

Cloud Resume Challenge
AWS · Terraform · Syncfusion

This portfolio — agent-assisted build (context rules, MCP, CI-gated deploy), serverless visitor counter, EJ2 UI, and IaC on GitHub Actions.

Ollama Chat on AWS
ALB · ASG · Terraform

React + Flask + Ollama behind an ALB with private-subnet ASGs.

Live demo →

Recent Certifications

4 credentials

Career milestones

  • Town of Wiley — production municipal site on AWS Amplify (townofwiley.gov)
  • Wiley Widget — Blazor/Syncfusion finance workspace (wileywidget.townofwiley.gov)
  • Code Platoon Echo — AI Cloud & DevOps cohort (aico-echo)
  • Cloud Resume Challenge — Terraform + GitHub Actions pipeline live
  • Serverless visitor counter API (API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB)
  • Ollama Chat ALB demo on personal AWS account
View all on Credly →

Career Journey

Taking my past experiences, developing new tech skills to bring meaningful tools to existing problems

Projects

Selected Projects

Town of Wiley Website
Angular · AWS Amplify · AppSync · Lambda · Route 53

Production municipal website for Wiley, Colorado — Angular SPA hosted on AWS Amplify with Amplify Studio / AppSync CMS, bilingual EN/ES, document hub, NWS weather proxy, severe-weather alert signup, contact-update workflows, SES email alias routing, and Paystar payment integration scaffold.

Live site → Source code →

Wiley Widget (wiley-co-web)
Blazor WASM · .NET · Syncfusion · Aurora · App Runner

Wiley Widget for AWS — hosted Blazor WebAssembly municipal finance workspace with Syncfusion panel-first UI, Aurora PostgreSQL, thin API on App Runner, Cognito auth, QuickBooks import pipeline, and Jarvis AI recommendations via xAI/Grok integration.

Live app → Source code →

BusBuddy
C# · Microsoft SQL Server · Wiley School District

Production transportation reporting application integrating with SQL databases — delivered measurable operational improvements including a 30% reduction in errors.

Cloud Resume Challenge Portfolio
AWS · Terraform · Syncfusion EJ2 · GitHub Actions

This site — glassmorphism UI, live visitor counter, IaC-managed infrastructure, and CI/CD deployment pipeline. Built with context-first agent workflows and automated quality gates before every production release.

Frontend repo → Infrastructure repo →

Ollama Chat on AWS
React · Flask · Ollama · ALB · Terraform

Full-stack AI chat — React SPA, Flask API, and Ollama (gemma:2b) behind an ALB with private-subnet Auto Scaling Groups, Terraform IaC, and GHCR container delivery.

Live demo → Source code →

Experience

Professional Experience

Education

Education

Bachelor of Science, Agribusiness
Agricultural Business Operations · May 1992

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

ACE-Recommended Military Credits (95+ Semester Hours)
U.S. Army Joint Services Transcript · 1988–2014

Associate-level: Management (24 SH), Health Sciences (21 SH), Logistics (18 SH)

Vocational: Motor Transport (15 SH), Supply Chain (12 SH)

Skills

Technical Skills

Software

Visual Studio, GitHub, Microsoft Access/Excel (VBA/Pivot), SharePoint, Flask, React (Code Platoon — Bedrock module), Amazon SageMaker & Bedrock consoles

Operating Systems

Windows, macOS

Programming

C# (.NET), SQL, Python & Flask, VBA, HTML/CSS basics

Data Analytics (Google Professional Certificate)

Tools: SQL, Tableau, Python, Microsoft Excel & Google Sheets, Kaggle, presentation tools (Google Slides / PowerPoint)

Practice: ask data-driven questions; prepare, clean, and process datasets; exploratory analysis; dashboards and stakeholder visualizations; recommendations from analysis; capstone case study

AI for analytics: data cleaning and structuring, complex formulas, analysis prep, and visualization planning (per Google Data Analytics Certificate curriculum)

Verify on Credly →

Tools & Methods

Agile/Scrum, Data Pipelines, Remote Dev Environments, Unix/CLI & shell workflows, Terraform (IaC, modules, remote state), GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS deployments & networking fundamentals, Kubernetes, LangChain, Amazon SageMaker (ML pipelines), Amazon Bedrock (RAG, agents & flows), Amazon Lex, prompt engineering & production AI evaluation

Code Platoon (Echo): aico-echo curriculum → · program overview →

Agentic Development (Cloud Resume Challenge)

Workflow: context-first agent development — repository rules for static EJ2, Syncfusion MCP for component guidance, plan-then-implement prompts, and scoped follow-ups (markup, theme, controls, CI, deploy).

Governance: human review before merge; ESLint, HTMLHint, and Prettier in CI; deploy pipeline blocks committed secrets and generates runtime config at release.

Delivered: mockup-aligned landing, OIDC GitHub Actions → S3/CloudFront, visitor API wiring, and iterative portfolio updates on a static CDN stack.

Contributor agent setup (Cursor + MCP) → · frontend repo →

Cloud & DevOps (Cloud Resume Challenge)

AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Syncfusion EJ2, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB

Credentials

Certifications & Badges

View all on Credly

Additional credentials

  • Commercial Driver's License (CDL) — Active with School Bus and Passenger Endorsements
  • Military: Warrant Officer Candidate School (2009)
  • Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (BNCOC), 1996
  • Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC), 1993

Recognition

Notable Awards

  • Meritorious Service Medal (2014)
  • Army Commendation Medal (3rd Award)
  • Army Achievement Medal (3rd Award)
  • Army Good Conduct Medal
  • Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal (2nd Award)
  • Iraq Campaign Medal with 2 Bronze Stars
  • National Defense Service Medal
  • Armed Forces Reserve Medal (2nd Award)
  • Driver and Mechanic Badge

Contact

Get in Touch
Open to remote software and cloud engineering roles

Wiley, Colorado · TS/SCI clearance

bigessfour@gmail.com 719-640-2230 LinkedIn GitHub — @Bigessfour Code Platoon curriculum (aico-echo) Frontend repo Infrastructure repo Ollama Chat repo Ollama Chat live demo Town of Wiley site Town of Wiley repo Wiley Widget app Wiley Widget repo