Jonah Connelly
Sherwood
Summary
Infrastructure Deployment Lead with experience delivering large-scale data center buildouts, contributing to 500 MW of deployed capacity in the past year. Skilled in coordinating cross-functional teams, removing operational blockers, and maintaining deployment standards across complex infrastructure environments including rack deployment, power distribution, and network hardware integration.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Infrastructure Deployment Lead
CoreWeave
10.2024 - Current
- Lead large-scale data center infrastructure deployments, coordinating construction teams, engineers, vendors, and technicians while contributing to 500 MW of deployed capacity.
- Serve as the primary on-site operational lead, resolving blockers and aligning cross-functional teams during rack installation, power distribution, and network deployments.
- Enforce deployment standards including rack layouts, cable management, and phase-balanced power distribution while performing real-time quality control.
- Manage deployment readiness by forecasting staffing needs, coordinating hardware shipments, and providing daily operational reporting to project managers.
Datacenter Technician
CoreWeave
02.2024 - 10.2024
- Maintained and optimized physical data center infrastructure including installation, configuration, and support of enterprise server hardware.
- Performed rack and stack deployments, hardware replacements, and routine maintenance to ensure reliable operations.
- Diagnosed infrastructure issues across servers and networking while collaborating with cross-functional IT teams.
- Managed service requests and maintained accurate documentation and asset records through ticketing systems.
Data Center Engineering Support Technician
Compucom
04.2023 - 02.2024
- Managed pre-production lab infrastructure including servers, GPUs, and CPUs supporting development and testing environments.
- Administered lab networking including Cisco, Arista, and Netgear switches while troubleshooting connectivity issues.
- Developed Bash automation tools for user onboarding and Docker database management including NetBox backups and migrations.
- Maintained LDAP access control and provided hands-on support for engineers in a lab data center environment.
Datacenter Technician
Compucom
03.2022 - 04.2023
Timeline
Infrastructure Deployment Lead
CoreWeave
10.2024 - Current
Datacenter Technician
CoreWeave
02.2024 - 10.2024
Data Center Engineering Support Technician
Compucom
04.2023 - 02.2024
Datacenter Technician
Compucom
03.2022 - 04.2023