Walker Sasser

Northwest GA · (470) 889-9827 · thewalkersasser@gmail.com

Christian, husband, and father with years of experience in a wide variety of technologies. I studied programming, operating systems, data structures & algorithms through my Computer Science degree earned from Kennesaw State University, though most of my professional experience has been geared more towards scripting, automation, platform engineering & cloud governance.

Experience

Cloud Engineer

COUNTRY Financial
  • Research and develop IaC workflows for Azure and Tanzu Application Service
  • Manage and facilitate platform upgrades for Tanzu Application Service
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across platforms
  • Develop custom dashboards to track resource consumption across platforms
  • Create CI/CD automation workflows using Gitlab and Python
  • Perform POCs to showcase and demonstrate platform capabilities
  • Train application development teams on platform usage
  • Participate in KT and prepare documentation for team members to perform operational work
  • Design and develop standards for Docker usage
May 2020 - Present

Applecare Advisor

Apple
  • Troubleshooted and resolved technical issues with Apple products
  • Provided educational experiences in order to enrich customer satisfaction with Apple products
  • Worked with managers and team members to improve overall team performance by 20% in 2019
February 2019 - May 2020

Site Supervisor

Perfect Game USA
  • Recorded, updated and maintained player statistics to ensure accuracy
  • Managed employees and helped to administer events
  • Worked to resolve issues and disputes between officials, parents, players, employees and coaches
May 2017 - May 2020

Education

Kennesaw State University

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science

GPA: 3.67

August 2017 - May 2021

Harrison High School

Honors Tract

GPA: 4.125

August 2015 - May 2017

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Experience
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • CI/CD with Python and Gitlab
  • Git Version Control
  • Maintaining Tableau Dashboards
  • VMWare Tanzu (CF-CLI, operations, troubleshooting and deployments)
  • Azure (VMs, Networking, Tagging, ARM & Bicep, AAD and AKS)

Interests

  • Finance
  • Bitcoin
  • Computer Science
  • Exercise
  • Self-Hosted Applications
  • Consulting

Awards & Certifications