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Jace Romero
Profile
Engineer with senior QA automation experience and hands-on platform, cloud, and infrastructure project work. Built independent project experience across Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Docker, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, and NATS, with a focus on delivery reliability, GitOps, observability, and automation.
Independent Project
Independent Application Platform
2025–Present
- Built and maintained a multi-service application stack using Go, Svelte, PostgreSQL, NATS, and containerized services deployed through GitOps workflows.
- Built and owned the infrastructure and delivery workflows across Kubernetes manifests, ArgoCD applications, Kustomize overlays, Helm values, image update automation, and deployment validation scripts.
- Added observability instrumentation and monitoring workflows using OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, and Tempo.
- Used strong QA automation and release engineering practices to improve deployment confidence, workflow resilience, and cross-service change safety.
- Structured implementation work to stay modular and repeatable, which made AI-assisted code generation, refactoring, and follow-on delivery work more effective.
Relevant Experience
Sr. QA Automation Engineer
Bold Penguin, Inc | October 2023 – July 2024
- Optimized GitHub Actions workflows and CI execution patterns to improve efficiency and release reliability.
- Collaborated on Kubernetes-based environments and infrastructure-adjacent developer workflows supporting dev/test delivery.
- Mentored engineers on automation, CI/CD, and maintainable delivery practices.
QA Engineer
WorkStep | February 2022 – September 2022
- Integrated automated quality gates into CircleCI workflows and supported environment configuration for reliable test execution.
- Expanded automated coverage to 100+ tests while helping teams adopt scalable quality and release practices.
Software QA Engineer
CenterEdge | May 2021 – February 2022
- Improved deployment readiness by integrating automated coverage into release workflows and pre-deployment checks.
- Assisted in CI and container-based workflow optimizations to improve build reuse and consistency.
QA Automation Engineer
Edquity | June 2020 – February 2021
- Used GitLab CI, Terraform, and basic Kubernetes tooling to support ephemeral test environments and automation workflows.
QA Automation Engineer
EverlyWell | June 2018 – September 2019
- Integrated automation into Jenkins, TravisCI, and AWS CodeBuild to improve release consistency and build confidence.
Skills
- Cloud & Platform: GCP, OCI, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, Terraform, GitOps
- Observability: Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Mimir, Loki, Tempo
- CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, Spinnaker, AWS CodeBuild
- Programming: Go, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, Bash
- Systems: PostgreSQL, NATS, event-driven systems, deployment validation, release safety automation
- Quality Engineering: Test automation, quality gates, E2E/API testing, developer workflow improvements
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test authoring, and documentation in modular, reusable workflows