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Bart Ilg

Reliability, Automation, Infrastructure

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Bart Ilg

  • Software Engineering
  • Reliability
  • Automation

Software engineer and automation specialist with deep experience in Linux systems, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, and secure cloud architecture. Focused on scalable, self-healing systems that reduce operational overhead and improve reliability.

Based in
Irvine, CA
Available
For new work

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

  • Investigated and resolved production issues across Kubernetes infrastructure, improving reliability through direct root-cause analysis.
  • Built internal tooling to analyze cluster alert trends over time, making recurring failure patterns visible earlier.
  • Developed an internal log analysis workflow using ML-based pattern detection to surface repeat failures faster.

2025 - Present

TP-Link Systems

Software Systems Engineer (DevOps)

  • Served as the primary infrastructure engineer on a lean IT team supporting a 2,600+ employee private equity-backed organization.
  • Automated infrastructure migrations for acquired companies and handled environment-specific edge cases during cutovers.
  • Built backend automation pipelines for onboarding, offboarding, asset tracking, and cross-system synchronization.
  • Led the architecture and deployment of Zero Trust Network Access to secure internal applications with identity-based access controls.
  • Replaced legacy Windows servers with containerized and serverless cloud-native platforms using Terraform, reducing cost and operational overhead.

2023 - 2025

Champions Group

Systems Administrator

  • Developed custom auditing software that identified billing errors and recovered $80,000 in savings.
  • Built self-healing automation for 900+ endpoints to improve patching, software deployment, and compliance enforcement.
  • Automated email parsing and reporting workflows to improve internal operational efficiency.

2018 - 2023

Service Champions

Engineering Intern

  • Designed and modified components for use in the aerospace industry.
  • Utilized 3D computer-aided design software, specifically SolidWorks.
  • Updated digital models and blueprints of parts to meet new specifications.

2016

Absolute Technologies

Projects

Terradrift

Terraform state-drift analysis tool for auditing and reconciliation workflows.

Homelab Infrastructure

Personal platform spanning TrueNAS, a GPU server, and a Talos Kubernetes cluster managed with FluxCD.