1,400x faster
satellite imagery pipeline: ~1 month → <30 minutes
Novetta — infrastructure re-architecture and pipeline automation for a mission-critical geospatial intelligence platform.
timothyadams.org // status: operational // uptime: 17y
Timothy John Michael Adams
Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer · AI Sales Executive · AI Engineer
Seventeen-plus years keeping other people's infrastructure online. Army veteran. Ex-Google contractor. Now building and running four products of my own — solo, on GCP, cost-optimized end to end.
Open to remote roles — looking to be the engineer who moves the needle for the right team
01 // operator profile
Seventeen years on call. Now I'm the one I'm on call for.
My career started in Army intelligence systems maintenance, moved through Google's operations floor, and spent years building petabyte-scale geospatial pipelines at Novetta. Along the way I learned the same lesson in every environment: the infrastructure only matters if it stays up, and staying up is a discipline, not an accident.
Today I run that discipline on my own products. Four live GCP projects, one engineer on call, cost-optimized the same way I'd optimize a client's production bill — because it's my bill now.
- role
- Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer · AI Sales Executive · AI Engineer
- experience
- 17+ years
- origin
- U.S. Army, 35T — Military Intelligence Systems Maintainer/Integrator, Georgia Army National Guard (2009–2015)
- prior
- Google (Contractor, Operations Engineer) · Novetta · CloudTactics
- now
- Indie developer, 4 self-funded GCP products
- stack
- GKE · Cloud Run · Terraform · Go · Python · PostgreSQL
02 // track record
Impact, measured
99.93% uptime
annual downtime cut from ~6 weeks to ~6 hours
Led a team of 5 at Novetta — saved 1,000+ engineering hours annually.
Days → <15 min
environment provisioning, self-service for 50+ engineers
CloudTactics.io — greenfield Kubernetes-based internal developer platform for a Fortune 10 client.
3x
Hackathon winner
Novetta — monitoring solutions, custom SDKs, and CI/CD pipeline builds, recognized company-wide.
$2.5M+
mission-critical equipment, squad-level accountability
U.S. Army, 35T — Military Intelligence Systems Maintainer/Integrator. Georgia Army National Guard, 2009–2015.
Zero-touch
CI/CD pipeline design — built and run solo, across three live products
GitLab CI automation covering auto-signed Android builds, deterministic-simulation version locking for gaming compliance, and container vulnerability scanning. Repos are private at the moment — happy to walk through the actual pipeline architecture on a call.
"Tim Adams is an excellent DevOps engineer. His knowledge, experience, and cloud expertise have increased our development team's velocity and overall code quality by an immeasurable amount, all while undergoing triple digit growth in developer staff. His dedication to the mission is unquestionable."
"Tim is an exceptional leader, team member, and engineer. His knowledge and skills are only surpassed by his passion for the industry. Tim is equipped with outstanding aptitude and insight as well as the ability to view and plan the future even as he learns a new tool/objective/etc. He would make a great addition to any team!"
03 // live systems
What's running right now
marketplace
VetSwap
A classifieds and auction marketplace built exclusively for veterans — buy, sell, and bid within a trusted, service-verified community.
GKE · Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) · Go
visit govetswap.com
real-money skill game
FlappyJack
A real-money, skill-based browser game with a live, active player base — built solo, from gameplay mechanics to anti-fraud infrastructure.
Go · JavaScript · Cloudflare Turnstile
visit flappyjack.net
mobile game
Clandestine
A location-based, asymmetric espionage game — track, evade, and out-maneuver other agents in the real world.
Go · MapLibre · Mobile
visit clandestinegame.com randum.org live
gig marketplace
Randum
Random Jobs, Dum Easy — a gig marketplace matching people with quick, simple work they can pick up without friction.
Go · GCP
visit randum.org04 // how this runs
How this site is built
Treated like a production service, not a static page: a manual-trigger build pipeline, a container that scales to zero, managed TLS, and observability sized to the actual traffic — not over-built for its own sake.
- hosting
- Cloud Run (us-east1), nginx:alpine, scales to zero
- pipeline
- gcloud + Cloud Build, manual-trigger (auto-deploy on push is next)
- registry
- Artifact Registry, Docker, us-east1
- edge / TLS
- Cloud Run domain mapping, Google-managed certificate
- observability
- Cloud Logging + Cloud Monitoring — built-in, no separate stack
- cost
- ~$0/month at current traffic (inside GCP free tier)
05 // reach out
$ contact --list
email timskipladder@gmail.com
phone (910) 785-2312
linkedin linkedin.com/in/devopstim
gitlab gitlab.com/timskipladder
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