Mike Dopp

Mike Dopp

DevOps & SRE engineerRelease pipelinesAI automation

I automate everything that ships or breaks: deployments, releases, certificates, failovers, hardware and software. If a human has to remember the steps, I'm not done yet.

  • 20+ yrs infra
  • 10+ yrs DevOps
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure · AWS
  • PowerShell 7
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Mike Dopp

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Loc: Utah

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Automated: everything that ships or breaks

8 of 8 bays online

  • Deployments

    Azure DevOps Classic and YAML pipelines, including multi-region release pipelines into AWS.

  • Releases

    Octopus Deploy workflows from dev to test to prod, built to stop drift between them.

  • Certificates

    Pulled from the vault, bound to IIS, SSRS and RabbitMQ, verified, and alerted before expiry. 20+ servers, zero calendar reminders.

  • Failover

    A pipeline-gated, two-datacenter database failover, cut from 35+ minutes to under 10.

  • Hardware

    Server builds driven from config files cut setup time 50%. BoardScout maps what's under the lid.

  • Software

    4,000+ reusable PowerShell functions for releases, load balancers, diagnostics and config checks.

  • AI agents

    AI-written code works from templates and has to pass parser, security, lint, test, build and smoke checks to ship.

  • Local AI

    RAG search over 28,914 chunks on a local model, from 21.8 s to 30–50 ms per query. The data never leaves the box.

Mounted: public repos

Multi_Install_ISO

v0.9.0 · Prerelease · offline-proven · no VM built yet

Builds vSphere and Hyper-V servers straight from install ISOs. No templates, no golden images, no "who touched the base image" meetings.

Source
Multi Install ISO's Plan page: four Windows Server VMs validated with zero blocking issues and the plan's SHA-256 hash.
The plan. Four servers, zero blocking issues, one SHA-256 that every later step has to quote.
Multi Install ISO's Overview page listing what is planned, what is built, and what has not been proven yet.
The overview, including an honest list of what hasn't been proven yet.
What it does
  • Reads a YAML, JSON or CSV definition and writes a read-only plan with a SHA-256.
  • Builds one answer-media ISO per VM (autounattend.xml or ks.cfg), reads it back byte for byte and hashes it.
  • Applies one VM at a time, only after you quote the plan hash and name the target. A receipt after every step.
  • PowerShell engine, .NET 10 desktop app, vSphere and Hyper-V targets.

Note The apply paths haven't built a real VM yet, and the README says so up front. Optimism is not evidence.

BoardScout

v1.9.0 · Released · October 2026 · MIT

Maps a PC's motherboard, bandwidth, drivers, storage and OS in one portable Windows app. It never installs drivers, which is more restraint than most driver tools show.

Source
BoardScout's interactive board map of an ASRock B550M motherboard showing CPU, memory, PCIe slots, M.2 drives and SATA ports.
The board map. Hover any part for live status and what it's good for.
BoardScout's Connections view: every USB, SATA and network device, the link speed it negotiated, and warnings for links running below spec.
Connections, with the links that are running below what the device supports flagged.
What it does
  • Flags links running slow, like a PCIe 4.0 SSD on 3.0 lanes or a USB 3 drive on a USB 2 port.
  • Live disk and network traffic drawn along the real device paths.
  • Portable single exe. No installer, no admin rights, no .NET install needed.
  • C# and .NET 10, with WebView2 for the interactive views.

Note Fourteen releases since August. Every one since 1.1 ships with SHA-256 checksums.

Also racked

Patch panel: skills

24 ports patched · every link up

  1. PowerShell 7
  2. Python
  3. C# / .NET
  4. Bash
  5. Azure DevOps
  6. YAML pipelines
  7. Octopus Deploy
  8. TeamCity
  9. Git / GitHub
  10. ARM / Bicep
  11. Docker
  12. AKS
  13. Azure
  14. AWS
  15. Key Vault
  16. PKI / TLS
  17. SQL Server HA
  18. Load balancers
  19. Azure Monitor
  20. Datadog
  21. vSphere / PowerCLI
  22. Windows Server / IIS
  23. Ollama / local LLMs
  24. RAG / embeddings

Yes, every port is labeled. Somebody has to.

About

Twenty-plus years in enterprise infrastructure, more than ten of them in DevOps and automation. I build the pipelines that ship code and the automation underneath that keeps it running: releases, certificates, failovers and server builds. PowerShell 7 is the daily driver; Python and C#/.NET when the job calls for them.

SRE habits come standard: gated steps, state-aware checks, logs that explain themselves, alerts that fire before users notice, and incident work that crosses app, network and data layers.

And AI, with guardrails. Agents work from templates and pass the same checks as everyone else's code; local models keep sensitive data on the machine.

  • Four peer-nominated awards in three months for automation work. Apparently people like not clicking things.
  • Led a DevOps team through an on-prem to AWS move that cut infrastructure costs 30%.
  • VMUG Salt Lake City regular, plus volunteer IT support for local community services.

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