Josh Padnick
Founder at Gruntwork
Encinitas, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Padnick is CEO and co‑founder of Gruntwork with 10 years of hands‑on experience building infrastructure-as-code tooling and CI/CD automation. He’s a pragmatic DevOps and full-stack contributor known for work on Terragrunt and Terratest—adding automated integration tests, improved remote state handling, and AWS-focused utilities to make Terraform workflows scalable and testable. His contributions to Terraform modules and AMI publishing pipelines demonstrate deep expertise automating builds, testing, and multi-region deployments on AWS. He also helped steward the OpenTF Manifesto, reflecting active engagement in open-source governance and licensing debates. Combining a Wharton business education with technical roots, he bridges product, engineering, and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (32)
git10
scripting10
open-source10
bash10
circleci10
terraform10
terraformer10
automation10
packer10
script10
go10
aws10
ci-cd10
html10
sh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 184 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the infrastructure-as-code aspects of the `terratest` repository. They developed functions to generate RSA keypairs, import and delete EC2 key pairs, and manage S3 buckets, along with supporting functionality for CIDR block generation. These changes suggest an emphasis on creating and automating infrastructure using AWS services, and providing a framework for tests. This user also modified the tests to use terratest's convenient functions.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
hashicorp/terraform-aws-vault
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
A Terraform Module for how to run Vault on AWS using Terraform and Packer
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for AMIs within the repository. They implemented a `publish-amis.sh` script for building, copying, and making AMIs public across regions. The user added functionality to generate and push markdown documentation containing AMI IDs. Furthermore, they added checks and made it extra clear that example AMIs are not for production use.
terraform-modulespackervaultterraformaws
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