Infrastructure engineering & applied AI

I build cloud platforms
for engineers.

I’m Caleb. I lead cloud infrastructure at Gearbox and help build AI tools for our engineers.

I work on infrastructure supporting more than a million concurrent users worldwide. I’m interested in making complex systems easier to build and operate.

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Currently at GearboxPreviously Electronic Arts

Hours → minutesDeployment time after the platform migration Engineering with AIAn AI assistant for engineering work AI-assisted deliveryTools for implementation and validation

01 / Selected work

🎁 Selected work. 🎁

My role is noted on each project, from personal implementation to technical direction.

01 / Platform engineering

Designed & directed

Deployments that take minutes.

I led the architecture and migration of Gearbox’s cloud platform. Our infrastructure team brought delivery and observability into a shared set of tools.

Deployment time dropped from hours to minutes. Most individual transitions now take about 60 seconds from the deployment trigger. That covers merge request to dev, dev to stable, or stable to production.

Inside the transformation

Perforce and Bamboo → GitLab and GitLab CI/CD.
CloudFormation → Terraform.
Consul → AWS Secrets Manager.
Fragmented logging and metrics → unified, cost-tracked observability in Datadog across the stack.

Our original two-person DevOps team grew into a cloud infrastructure team. New hires already knew the tools we had adopted, which made onboarding easier.

DEPLOYMENT, REWORKED

HoursMinutes.

MR→Dev→Stable→Prod

~60 seconds per transition in most cases.
Measured from the deployment trigger.

02 / Applied AI

Contributed to design & implementation

AI companion for online engineering department.

I helped design and build an AI assistant that engineers interact with through a variety of interfaces. We use it to prepare release notes, review security vulnerabilities, triage incidents, and manage on-call rotations.

My contribution included design and implementation alongside other engineers.

ENGINEERING ASSISTANT

Engineering support

01 Release notes02 Security vulnerabilities03 Incident triage04 On-call rotations

Available through a variety of interfaces

03 / Engineering automation

Helping lead development

Agents that implement and verify changes.

I’m helping lead development of agents that work across implementation, code review, testing, and deployment.

We’re building the platform knowledge and validation tools those agents need to make useful changes. Engineers use the resulting evidence to decide what’s ready to ship.

Happy to talk through the work on a call.

DEVELOPMENT FOCUS

AI-assisted delivery

01 Planning02 Implementation03 Code review04 Testing & validation05 Deployment

02 / Operating principle

“Make on-call
not suck.”

When on-call becomes unsustainable, our engineering leaders join the rotation until the workload improves.

I authored and implemented our launch rotation and incident-management framework. We run mock launches so engineers can practice investigating unfamiliar systems under pressure.

03 / A little background

🎅 About me.

I'm based in Texas and have worked in software engineering since 2010. Before that, I was a network administrator.

At Gearbox, I lead cloud infrastructure engineering. My responsibilities include technical direction and cloud cost management. I also help guide how we run AI workloads across the organization.

I enjoy hands-on engineering, especially prototyping new systems and developing them based on what we learn.

Cloud platformsDeveloper infrastructureApplied AI

📜 Experience

2019–present

Gearbox Software

Senior Technical Director of Infrastructure

2014–2019

Electronic Arts

DevOps Engineer

2010–2014

CGI Federal

Development Team Lead

2005–2010

Thrasher Engineering

Network Administrator

MS, Computer Science · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Computer Science · Bluefield State University

04 / Let's talk

Have something
in mind?

I enjoy comparing notes with people working on developer infrastructure and applied AI.

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