https://jeffbilder.com/Recent content on Jeff BilderHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jeffbilder.com/post/designing-a-gitops-pipeline/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jeffbilder.com/post/designing-a-gitops-pipeline/The best compliment a deploy pipeline can get is silence. Nobody Slacks about it. Nobody “just kicks off the build.” It runs because someone merged a pull request, and the system quietly makes reality match the repo. That’s the whole idea behind GitOps, and it’s less about tooling than it is about a single rule: the desired state of your system lives in git, and a machine — not a human — is responsible for closing the gap between git and production.https://jeffbilder.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://jeffbilder.com/about/I’m Jeff Bilder — a DevOps and infrastructure leader with 20+ years across the software, risk management, and security sectors. My career started where a lot of good infrastructure people start: hands-on, configuring redundant Cisco networks, building Linux mail clusters, and writing scripts to make manual work disappear. Over time that grew into architecting datacenters, managing multi-million-dollar budgets, and today leading a team of 7 DevOps engineers operating a multi-region SaaS platform across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and Azure DevOps.https://jeffbilder.com/experience/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://jeffbilder.com/experience/From hand-configuring redundant Cisco networks in 1999 to managing a team automating multi-region AWS, GovCloud, and Azure DevOps estates today, the throughline has stayed the same: take infrastructure that’s sprawling, fragile, and manual, and turn it into something automated, observable, and secure. Equally at home diagnosing a 2 AM production outage and presenting architectural trade-offs to executives. Below is the path that got me here.