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Cedric Bridges

Platform engineer building Kubernetes infrastructure and developer tooling.

Experience

Platform Engineer — Guidewire

May 2023 — Present
  • Maintain the backend endpoint service for a custom settings service and built its UI.
  • Build custom developer tools for platform users.
  • Use Crossplane and KubeVela to implement custom Kubernetes components for developers.

Senior Systems Analyst / Programmer — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Hoover, AL

Feb 2016 — May 2023
  • Built and maintained a JSP, HTML, and CSS web application giving business users self-service access to backend systems for testing future-dated claims.
  • Also supported legacy EDI processes on the mainframe (COBOL, JCL).

Projects

Hyve — GitOps CLI for Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management

  • Go CLI that manages Kubernetes clusters end-to-end from a Git state repository: create/scale/delete against any cloud, then drift-detect and reconcile in-cluster resources on every cycle.
  • Pluggable module system lets any provider (Civo, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS shipped as first-party examples) be scripted as a versioned, content-addressed package — no cloud SDKs embedded in the core.

Education

Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL

Aug 2011 — Dec 2015

Computer Information Systems — Minor in Business Administration · Magna Cum Laude

Skills

Platform / Infra

Kubernetes · Crossplane · KubeVela · Docker

Cloud — AWS

EKS · Aurora (RDS) · Secrets Manager · S3 · IAM

Cloud — GCP

GCP Compute Engine · App Engine · Cloud Storage · Cloud Run · Cloud Build · Firebase

Languages

Go · Java · JavaScript · SQL · HTML · CSS · C++ (some) · COBOL

Frameworks

Node.js · Next.js · React · React Native · Spring Boot

Databases

MySQL · PostgreSQL · DB2 · Oracle (some)

Tools

Git · Maven · VS Code · Eclipse · Postman · Passport · Topaz · VMware ESXi

Mainframe

ISPF · TSO · JCL