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Former flight ops lead now orchestrating containers instead of aircraft

Former flight ops lead now orchestrating containers instead of aircraft

Verified Domain Engineer (Beta)
Engineering Depth 2/5
Pivot Story

“Air traffic flow management is orchestration at its most literal. When I discovered Kubernetes, the mental model clicked immediately.”

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The Past

Jan 2008 - Jun 2016 (8 years 5 months)
Flight Ops Lead
Led departure flow management at a 200-departure-per-day hub. Reduced ground-delay minutes 15% through improved sequencing coordination with tower and TRACON.

The Now

Jan 2017 - Present (9 years 3 months)
Platform Engineer
Orchestrating ML training pipelines and microservice deployments on Kubernetes. Terraform and Helm for IaC. Built an internal platform serving six product teams.

About

Managed departure sequencing at a major hub airport. Kubernetes orchestration honestly feels familiar when your baseline is coordinating 200 daily departures.

Domain Signals

Domain Focus
Aviation
Tech Focus
Platform
Engineering Depth
Level 2/5
Self-rated hands-on software depth.