I’m Emilio Miller — an experienced Service Engineer who’s spent over a decade making infrastructure work reliably, at scale, and under pressure. My instinct is always to build: automate the thing, fix the pipeline, migrate the repo, ship it clean. I’ve done that across classified government systems, universities, and enterprise environments, and I bring the same mindset to every engagement.

I care less about the buzzwords and more about whether the system holds up at 2am.

What I Do

My bread and butter is DevOps and infrastructure automation — CI/CD pipelines, Python-driven tooling, IaC with Terraform, and the plumbing that keeps deployments from becoming incidents. I’ve led migrations, pioneered deployments on novel hardware, and built the kind of automated workflows that let engineers stop babysitting their infrastructure.

At CDWG, I’ve spent the last 3.5 years as a Service Engineer working across enterprise and public sector engagements. Highlights include:

  • Migrated 500+ repositories with zero downtime — coordinating a large-scale GitLab migration without dropping a single team’s workflow
  • First SIBRS software deployment on POWER9 systems — pioneering work that required solving compatibility and performance challenges no one had documented before
  • Contributed to a team recognized as GitLab’s 2024 AMER Services Partner of the Year and 2024 Public Sector Services Partner

Currently deploying Spectro Cloud Palette VerteX on AWS GovCloud — Kubernetes-native infrastructure at the intersection of cloud and compliance.

Tools & Stack

Cloud & IaC

  • AWS — EC2, VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, Transit Gateway
  • Terraform — modules, workspaces, remote state (S3 + DynamoDB locking), CI-driven plans and applies
  • AWS GovCloud

Containers & Orchestration

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Spectro Cloud Palette VerteX

CI/CD & Automation

  • GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash

Platforms

  • Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL), POWER9

Outside the Terminal

I run a home lab using a variety of hardware and technologies — it’s where I break things on purpose so production doesn’t have to. If I’m not behind a keyboard, you can catch me feeling the bass and dancing, or doing the outdoor things that Colorado does best.