About Me
Hi, I'm Martez Reed
A technologist with a passion for automation, infrastructure, and helping organizations navigate the evolving landscape of hybrid cloud technologies.
Background
I'm currently the Vice President of Field Solutions for RiverMeadow Software, focused on helping partners and customers understand how to leverage the RiverMeadow platform to enable workload mobility, optimization, and modernization. My career spans client-facing consulting, DevOps initiatives, and helping organizations modernize their infrastructure practices.Systems & Infrastructure
Deep background in system administration evolving into modern platform and infrastructure engineering.
Automation & Orchestration
Hands-on experience with StackStorm, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet across enterprise environments.
Technical Marketing
Translating complex technical concepts into compelling content, demos, and enablement for practitioners.
Technical Expertise
Technologies and platforms I write about and work with.
Vault, Terraform, Nomad, Packer — secrets management, IaC, and workload scheduling.
Private cloud, VEBA event-driven automation, workload identity, and container hosts.
Container orchestration, KubeVirt, cloud-native patterns, and platform engineering.
Jenkins, GitOps, Argo Workflows, pipeline design, and chaos engineering.
Vault hardening, Chef InSpec, audit logging, supply chain security, and policy management.
Puppet, Chef, Ansible — policy-based autosigning, bolt provisioners, and inventory plugins.
Speaking Engagements
I've had the privilege of speaking at DevOpsDays events and VMware User Groups across the country.
DevOpsDays Indianapolis
2018 & 2019
DevOpsDays Raleigh
2019
DevOpsDays Minneapolis
2019
DevOpsDays Chicago
2018
Indy VMUG UserCon
2017, 2018 & 2021
Chicago VMUG UserCon
2018
ChefConf
2018
Cloud Field Day 3
Tech Field Day Delegate
Connect
github.com/martezr
linkedin.com/in/martezreed
@greenreedtech