GeorgeĀ Dean
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorGeorge Dean is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience spanning 29 companies, 10 languages, and tens of millions of users. He is currently a Software Engineer in the Creation Engine at Figma, applying breadth across the full stack to ship reliable, scalable features. In his VMware tenure, he led Panorama's migration from Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes on AWS, introduced Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and cdk8s, and implemented automated checks to catch breaking database migrations while strongly typing the frontend in TypeScript. His background also includes Pivotal Labs, VMware Tanzu Labs, and Dynamic Graphics, with hands-on work across Java/Kotlin/Spring, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, Node.js, React, and mobile, always championing TDD and clear ownership. Based in Oakland, CA, he holds an MS in Software Engineering (Development Management) from Carnegie Mellon and actively contributes to open source projects such as bosh-bootloader to strengthen CI/CD tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
bootloader10
dev-ops10
go10
devops10
testing10
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure9
bosh9
aws8
docker8
dockerce8
dockers8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Command line utility for standing up a BOSH director on an IAAS of your choice.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:56 commits, 3 PRs, 49 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:George's commits focused on the testing and deployment of the `bosh-bootloader` utility. They added tests that utilize `gexec` to invoke the `bbl` command, ensuring proper functionality. Further contributions involved refactoring and code cleanup, suggesting a focus on continuous integration and test automation within the repository, particularly related to the BOSH deployment process and supporting the underlying AWS infrastructure.
gcpboshcloud-foundryterragruntcommand-line-utility
gdean123/kappa-architecture
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:76 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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