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Joy Palmer
DevOps Engineer Intern with supervised experience in deployment speed, reliability, observability, automation, and cost. Practical work includes Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD.
Experience
Salesforce
New York · United States
DevOps Engineer Intern
Jun 2026 - Aug 2026
- Under supervision, split Terraform plans by environment, reviewed resource replacements before approval, and rehearsed restoration of the previous deployment with the on-call engineer.
- The team standardized progressive delivery and automated rollback checks for 27 services; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team kept the service stable through the next period of peak demand; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- The team set service-level indicators and actionable alerts for 16 customer-facing paths; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review. The team reduced repeat incidents from the same failure mode; confirmed with my mentor that my contribution was limited to the assigned support and validation work.
- Under supervision, owned a Kubernetes rollout checklist using Terraform plans and CI/CD health gates, reducing failed deployment recovery from 28 to 12 minutes in a staging drill.
- Under supervision, built Python monitoring checks for AWS resource drift and Linux service failures, resolving stale alerts before publishing the on-call documentation.
Selected project
DevOps Engineer — independent case study
Intern project team member
Sep 2025 - May 2026
- In a mentor-reviewed simulation, provisioned Kubernetes environments with reviewed Terraform plans and CI/CD promotion gates. Tested rollback on a failed health check so the previous release could be restored without a manual configuration change.
- As a second supervised exercise, added Linux service monitoring and a Python check for expiring certificates, stale deployments, and disk pressure; linked alerts to an owner and a tested recovery command.
- Under supervision, the team moved 83 manually managed cloud resources into reviewed Terraform modules; I supported research preparation, validation, and documentation under mentor review
- Built an isolated fixture with normal, malformed and interrupted inputs; recorded the expected response before running the implementation so failures were distinguishable from a changed assumption.
- Packaged the reproduction steps, configuration and regression tests with the project; checked the instructions from a clean environment and documented the unsupported cases instead of claiming production readiness.
- Owned the independent regression fixture using isolated inputs, resolved a failing edge case and released a reproducible test package with expected outputs.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science — in progress
Sep 2023 - Jun 2027
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS · CI/CD · Observability · Incident response
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Dec 2025
Publications
- Published an independent technical note using the project’s before-and-after traces, explaining the failed assumption, regression coverage and cases the implementation does not support.


