Ted McCormick
Ted McCormick
Principal AI Reliability & Quality Engineer
I build the systems, operating standards, and test infrastructure that let engineering teams ship with confidence.
My work sits at the intersection of SRE, quality engineering, AI-enabled development, and legacy modernization, with a bias toward pragmatic execution in regulated, high-consequence environments.
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Dexter, Missouri
I was raised in southeast Missouri. Small-town life tends to wire in accountability early: people know your name, your standards, and whether you follow through. That part stuck.
US Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Four years in Annapolis gave me the operational foundation I still rely on: discipline, standards, and composure under pressure. It also gave me a real engineering core behind a political science degree.
Surface Warfare Officer
I served six years as a Surface Warfare Officer, leading engineering and training programs in operational environments where reliability was not a slogan. That mindset maps cleanly to production engineering.
Family Life
San Antonio became home after the Navy. Family has a way of clarifying priorities, which is helpful when your job is separating signal from noise and investing effort where it matters.
Codeup
Codeup was the formal pivot into software, but not the start of technical leadership. It gave me the software delivery vocabulary to pair with years of operational ownership.
DevOps
My platform work has expanded from deployment automation into reliability leadership, quality gates, incident practice, and modernization strategy. The common thread is reducing risk while increasing engineering throughput.
Usio
At Usio, I built the first dedicated SRE function for a high-volume payments environment: runbooks, blameless post-mortems, observability improvements, deterministic test infrastructure, and a credible modernization path for a legacy authorization engine.
SWBC
SWBC was where I matured from a career-transition engineer into someone trusted with enterprise deployment patterns, security-sensitive incidents, QA strategy, and platform standards across multiple teams.