Tobias Macey
Associate Director Of Platform And DevOps Engineering
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolTobias Macey is an Associate Director of Platform and DevOps Engineering with 12 years of experience, currently leading platform and DevOps for MIT’s Open edX instance. He blends software engineering, systems automation and data analysis—shipping Python and Ruby services, building data pipelines, and operating cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on SaltStack and immutable infrastructure on AWS/OpenStack. At MIT he introduced SaltStack to the toolchain, drove an immutable infrastructure migration, and was supervising the DevOps team within months of joining. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved reliability in projects like pre-commit and Salt by hardening test automation and fixing silently passing assertions, and he’s also the host of several engineering podcasts and an advisor through Boundless Notions. With formal training in computer engineering and theoretical physics, he brings a quantitative, systems-minded perspective to platform and data problems from his base in Montpelier, Vermont.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University
English, German
Github Skills (22)
git10
python10
testing10
automation10
precommit-hook10
precommit10
salt10
automations10
test-automation10
pytest9
django8
django28
ruby8
node-js8
scripting7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 20 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving and maintaining the test infrastructure for the Salt project, specifically related to the Testinfra module. They addressed issues by updating modules to work with newer versions of the TestInfra library and fixed bugs related to incorrect assertion logic, which would have silently passed all tests. Furthermore, they added the option to specify a user when running django commands during testing. The contributions centered on ensuring the reliability and correctness of testing procedures.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
pre-commit/pre-commit
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Role in this project:Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily contributed to the `pre-commit` project by implementing features and improving the configuration. They added the ability to specify additional dependencies to be installed in the pre-commit environment and refactored existing methods. They also improved the stability of the codebase by fixing typos and reformatting method signatures. These changes involved modifying several language-specific installation scripts and adding unit tests to verify the correct installation of dependencies.
linterpythonmulti-languagepre-commitrefactoring
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