Devon Staggs — DevOps & Cloud Engineer

01 // About

Passionate DevOps & Cloud Engineer with hands-on experience building and managing homelab infrastructure including container orchestration, DNS management, reverse proxying, and Kubernetes clusters. Focused on automation, reliability, and modern cloud-native practices.

02 // Experience

Quality Technician — Nippon Steel Pipe America

Seymour, Indiana

April 2024 – Present

Calibration of all gages alongside communication with vendors to get more ordered; or get outsourced calibration.
Responsible for all record keeping of gages and gage parts ordered. I create reports for monthly gages and for location of each location to track when and where it was used.
Recieved certification of metallurgy

Quality Assurance Gage Calibration

Sales Representative — Comcast

Columbus, Indiana

February 2022 – April 2024

Review and repackage customer on home and internet packages.
Help manage inventory of routers,phones,accessories. push sales to create more packages
Train new hires on programs to use that was able to calculate rates and deals with packages that were wanted by the customer.

Sales Customer Service

03 // Projects

Homelab Infrastructure

Self-Hosted / Personal

Nov 2025 – Present

Deployed and managed a Raspberry Pi-based K3s Kubernetes cluster with Traefik ingress controller
Configured Cloudflare Tunnel for secure zero-trust remote access with no open ports
Self-hosted Pi-hole for network-wide DNS filtering and ad blocking
Managed Docker containers via Portainer including Minecraft server migration from bare metal to Docker
Built a custom Python Flask dashboard for Minecraft server management with live log streaming
Deployed Headlamp as a Kubernetes GUI with persistent cluster-admin RBAC access

Kubernetes K3s Docker Cloudflare Pi-hole Traefik Python Nginx Helm

Server Rack

Hardware / Networking

Apr 2026 - Present

5U edge-style homelab infrastructure to simulate a real-world cloud and DevOps environment. The system was built to support containerized applications automated deployments and scalable workloads
Virtualization & Infrastructure: Proxmox VE, Linux (Ubuntu Server, Raspberry Pi OS) Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes GitOps & CI/CD: Argo CD, Gitea Networking & Access: Cloudflare,Pi-hole Development & Automation: VS Code,Bash scripting
Created a fully self-hosted DevOps lab capable of running scalable applications and services Achieved repeatable, automated deployments with minimal manual intervention Gained hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture, clustering, and GitOps practices

Multi OS systems Containertized and orchestraded nodes self-hosted Git Service and CD deployment, Self-heal, and Gitops workflow Secure DNS tunneling and Filtering Remote Development & management and automated updates and deployments

04 // Skills

Container & Orchestration

Docker
Kubernetes / K3s
Helm
Portainer
Traefik

Networking & Security

Cloudflare Tunnel
Nginx
Pi-hole / DNS
UFW / Firewall
Zero Trust Access

Systems & OS

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)
Raspberry Pi OS
Systemd
Bash Scripting
Windows

Development

Python / Flask
HTML / CSS / JS
YAML / JSON
Git
REST APIs

Cloud & IaC

Cloudflare
Terraform (learning)
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Monitoring & Tools

Headlamp
K3s Metrics Server
Argo
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05 // Education

High School Deploma

Crothervilles K-12

2020 – 2021

CCNA Cisco Certifcation
Computer Engineering/Networking Ivy Tech Courses

06 // Certifications

Metallurgy

Nippon Steel Pipe America

Issued: March 2026

RHCSA

Red Hat, Inc.

Issued: In-Progress

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS

Issued: Planned