Justin R Meyer

303-834-7418 | resume@justinrmeyer.com | Denver, CO | JustinRMeyer.com | /in/justinrmeyercom

Summary

Seasoned engineering leader with 26+ years spanning cloud infrastructure, site reliability, and AI/GPU systems. Proven record of building SRE organizations from scratch, driving FedRAMP/SOC2 compliance, and scaling multi-cloud platforms across regulated and high-throughput environments. Currently leading AI infrastructure and observability at Andromeda Cluster, focused on GPU-centric cloud platforms and distributed ML training pipeline reliability.

Experience

Andromeda Cluster — AI Infrastructure Engineer

Dec 2025 – Present | Denver, CO (Remote)

Delivered escalated support for Andromeda customers, partnering directly with GPU hardware vendors to diagnose and resolve infrastructure-level hardware and storage issues across cloud environments.
Launched the first unified observability platform across a heterogeneous fleet of Slurm clusters and GPU Kubernetes deployments, migrating from bespoke Prometheus instances to Victoria Metrics and Alloy to improve visibility, incident response time, and operational consistency.
Managed AI/ML training pipeline infrastructure leveraging modern tools on distributed GPU clusters; integrated DCGM and NVIDIA NGC for GPU health monitoring and model deployment.
Led regular Argo CD and Helm upgrade cycles, conducting peer reviews and enforcing deployment best practices to maintain platform stability and release reliability.

AppOmni — Technical Lead Manager

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 | Denver, CO

Served as DRI for FinOps and billing contract negotiations, reducing GCP spend by over 20% through CUD laddering and favorable vendor terms.
Championed agile process improvements that elevated team discipline, visibility, and delivery predictability.
Extended observability platform to include hourly cost-of-operation metrics, providing real-time visibility into surge costs.
Established a blameless incident culture with regular retrospectives and FireHydrant-driven incident response, fostering continuous improvement and team accountability.

AppOmni — Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Nov 2023 – Jan 2025 | Denver, CO

Grew SRE team from 1 to 5 engineers, improving operational resilience and efficiency.
Managed and scaled SSPM/SEIM systems, supporting organizational security and compliance.
Maintained FedRAMP and SOC2 compliance, bolstering stakeholder trust.
Optimized cloud architecture, alleviating oversubscribed stacks and reducing costs.

Crusoe — Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Aug 2021 – Nov 2023 | Denver, CO (Remote)

Ground-to-cloud management of GPU cloud offering.
First SRE hire; grew and led the team to 6 members, scaling from 1 mobile data center to 5.
Full lifecycle cloud infrastructure: PXE, MaaS, Ansible, Rocky Linux, libvirt, Tailscale, nginx/Pomerium, Kubernetes, gRPC.

Adobe — Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2021 – Aug 2021

GCP migration and alignment; led SDLC across multiple projects.
AWS re-architect for Sales Connect.

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer — Marketo (Adobe)

Mar 2019 – Jan 2021

Ongoing migration to containerized and cloud-native deployments.
Monitoring and logging improvements for Marketo's bare-metal Kubernetes clusters.
Management of 6k hosts via Puppet, pdsh, and Ansible.
Unified authentication with sssd, pam.d, and corporate LDAP.

eBay — Site Reliability Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 | Remote

Covered 300B events/day across 6k services in the NOC/SEC.
Expanded mobile market into China; implemented oAuth flows (Scala/Play, Python/Flask).
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, GCP, Drone CI/CD, chatbot integration.
Multi-region monitoring, GKE cost analysis, log aggregation, HashiCorp Vault secrets management, fraud detection.

AppThis — Full Stack Dev / SRE

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017

AWS engineer: cost reduction, near 1B events/day throughput.
Automation with Salt Stack.
Custom HAProxy scaling with request processing SLA < 100ms.
Log shipping migration to streams.
PHP (HipHop, PHP7), Java, Scala (Play).

CenturyLink — Full Stack Java Developer

Nov 2016 – Jan 2017 | Contract

VeuxDu team member on e911 and SpeakEasy projects.
Java 1.8 + Spring Boot microservice migration.

Starz Entertainment — Sr. Cloud Engineer

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016

Maintained AWS and local tooling: Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Packer, Docker, Bamboo, Ansible.
Built PaaS-agnostic redirect dashboard for starz.com (Meteor/Node + Angular2 frontend managing nginx cluster).

Think Tank — Senior Developer

2015 – Jun 2016

Full-stack Java developer supporting and maintaining hosted and installed SaaS collaboration product.
Employed in-memory database for contribution-based transaction shipping and long polling.
Led microservices migration from monolithic architecture.
Stack: Spring Security, SAML2, Angular, Redis, ActiveMQ, DataDog.

Rocket Science Innovation, LLC — Founder / Contract Developer

2006 – 2019 | Remote / On-site

Founder of a technology development company specializing in industrial IoT and infrastructure automation.
13-year engagement with Open Range Access: oilfield telemetry, edge data processing, and ETL to production ERP systems.
Full-stack development across Python, JavaScript, and Java; hardware design including PCB layout, microcontroller firmware, and multi-modal comms (satellite, RF, cellular).
Cloud architecture, VPC design, and on-premise to cloud migrations.

Xilinx — System Developer

2009 – 2015

Codeffects.com, LLC — Co-Founder

2001 – 2006

University of Colorado Web Communications — Lead Developer

1999 – 2006

Technical Skills

Category	Technologies
OS / Container	Linux/Unix (Rocky, Debian), Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm, Podman
Cloud Providers	Crusoe, GCP, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean
AI / ML	CUDA, NCCL, DCGM, PyTorch, SLURM, NVIDIA NGC, AI/ML pipelines, InfiniBand
Storage / HPC	Ceph, Weka, LightBits
Testing	Cypress, Headless Chrome, Selenium, Gatling, JMeter, QUnit, TDD
Build Tools	GitLab CI, Drone, Jenkins, SBT, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Nexus/Artifactory
Source Control	Git, SVN — ChatOps: hubot, yetibot, atlantis
Programming	Python, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Go, C/C++/C#, Scala, .NET/MVC, PHP, Ruby, embedded-VB, CSS, bash/zsh
Deployment	Argo, FluxCD, AWX, Helm, MaaS, Docker, Install4J, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Packer, Terraform, Terragrunt
Frameworks / Servers	FastAPI, Flask, Django, Play, Spring, Sencha, jQuery, D3.js, Highcharts, Hibernate, MyBatis, CQ5 / Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Jetty, Tomcat, Node, Comet, IIS
Databases	PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, BigTable, Spanner, Redshift, RDS, PL/SQL, MSSQL, Flyway
ETL / BI	R-Project, Talend, Spark, POSIX RegEx
Other	Tailscale, HashiCorp Vault, PagerDuty, IAM, Hadoop, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, Parallels

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

Aug 1999 – May 2004 — Bachelor of Computer Science

General Assembly

Oct – Dec 2019 — Data Science in Python

Regis University Denver

Aug 2020 – Mar 2023 — Master of Data Engineering, 4.0 GPA

Professional Development

Project Management Professional Certification (PMI.org)
Coursera: Computing for Data Analysis; Data Analysis and Statistical Inference; Programming Mobile Applications for Android
Udemy: Leadership Masterclass; 80/20 Product Ownership
Certified Scrum Master (ScrumAlliance.org)