DevOps Engineer · Ford Motor Company

Michael
Swartz.

5+ years automating, monitoring, and scaling software delivery pipelines. I make sure the code ships — reliably, repeatably, at speed.

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Years Experience

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Pipelines Shipped

Unsolved P1s

// 01 — About

Building systems that
just work.

Hey, I'm Michael.

I'm a DevOps Engineer with 5+ years at Ford Motor Company, working at the intersection of software development and operations. My job is to make sure that the path from code to production is fast, automated, and bulletproof.

I've built CI/CD pipelines, owned monitoring platforms, automated infrastructure provisioning, and driven engineering best practices across large cross-functional teams. The best DevOps work is invisible — when systems just work, the engineers building them can stay focused on what matters.

Outside of work I build side projects — IoT monitoring with Raspberry Pi and Zabbix, home automation via MQTT and Home Assistant, pixel-sorting art, and deployment tooling I wish existed.

~/profile — bash

❯ whoami

michael-swartz

❯ cat profile.json

"role": "DevOps Engineer",

"employer": "Ford Motor Company",

"experience": "5+ years",

"stack": ["Python","Go","Docker","K8s","Terraform"],

"status": "shipping" // always

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Automation First

If something runs more than twice, it gets automated. CI/CD, provisioning, deployment, cleanup — all of it.

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Observability Obsessed

Zabbix, Grafana, custom dashboards. If it's running in production, it's being watched in real-time.

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Multi-Cloud

Hands-on experience across AWS and GCP — provisioning, scaling, and managing cloud infrastructure at enterprise scale.

// 02 — Stack

Tech I work with every day.

The tools I reach for in production — and the ones I build side projects with at midnight.

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Languages

Python Go C# C++ Bash Processing

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DevOps & CI/CD

Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI

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Monitoring

Zabbix Grafana Prometheus MQTT Log Analytics Alerting

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Cloud & Infra

AWS GCP Terraform Ansible Cloudflare Linux Networking DNS IaC

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IoT & Edge

Raspberry Pi Home Assistant MQTT Arduino Sensors

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Practices

Git Agile SRE Code Review Docs On-call

// 03 — Work

Where I've shipped things.

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CURRENT ROLE

DevOps Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Pipeline architecture: Designed and maintained enterprise-scale CI/CD systems that accelerate software delivery across multiple engineering teams
Infrastructure automation: Built Terraform and Ansible-driven provisioning workflows, eliminating manual environment setup across dev, staging, and production
Monitoring ownership: Owned end-to-end observability stack — alerting, dashboards, and runbooks — to maintain platform reliability and minimize MTTR
DevOps culture: Drove cross-functional alignment between dev, QA, and security on deployment standards, code quality gates, and release processes
Performance optimization: Reduced build and deployment cycle times through workflow improvements and parallelization strategies
Cloud infrastructure: Managed and scaled workloads across AWS and GCP, leveraging cloud-native services for reliability and cost efficiency

2019 – Present

Let's build something.

Open to conversations about DevOps, infrastructure, automation, or just talking shop. Find me wherever developers hang out.

Connect on LinkedIn →

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/michael-swartz-777768189

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GitHub github.com/Michael-Swartz

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Email [email protected]

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Michael Swartz.