Elliot Jordan
Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarElliot Jordan is a Senior Client Systems Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience automating macOS fleet security and management at organizations including Netflix and Nordstrom. He combines DevOps practices with pragmatic scripting to scale provisioning, packaging and release pipelines, and is a core maintainer of AutoPkg while contributing to Munki, jss-importer and many other Mac admin projects. As co-creator of AutoPkgr and Recipe Robot, much of his open‑source work has focused on improving AutoPkg’s build/release automation, unit testing and cross‑Python compatibility for recipes. A frequent Mac admin conference speaker and active MacAdmins Slack participant, he pairs enterprise systems engineering with hands‑on troubleshooting roots from his early years as an Apple Genius.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (24)
maintenance10
python10
testing10
packaging10
software-update10
recipes10
automation10
code-cleanup10
macos10
automations10
github-ci9
github-actions-workflows9
github-action-workflow9
github-actions-workflow9
system-administration9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
autopkg/recipes
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Recipes for AutoPkg
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 91 commits, 83 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily contributed to the automation and packaging aspects of the repository. Their work included modifying recipes for AutoPkg, applying suggestions from python-modernize, and making changes to ensure compatibility with different versions of Python. They addressed issues related to file paths, URL handling, and standardized indentation, indicating a focus on build processes and system-level configurations.
pythonrecipesrecipepackagingautopkg
autopkg/autopkg
Jul 2015 - Dec 2022
Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS.
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 releases, 11 reviews, 156 commits in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the AutoPkg project. Their contributions involved fixing bugs in error messages, and correcting typos to improve the codebase readability. They also added unit tests for specific processors and enhanced the testing framework, contributing to improved code quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user modified scripts to automate the building and deployment of releases.
pythonsoftware-distributionmacadminpackagingautopkg
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