Alex Schultz
Senior Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Schultz is a Senior Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer with 12+ years building and operating large-scale cloud platforms across startups and enterprises, currently working at NVIDIA. He specializes in stability, troubleshooting, and scaling, with deep hands-on expertise in AWS, OpenStack, containers, virtualization, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and CI/CD systems. A long-time OpenStack contributor and core reviewer, he has materially improved deployment tooling such as TripleO, Kolla, and Packstack—bringing production-ready container and deployment innovations to upstream projects. At Clumio and Red Hat he led SRE and platform efforts, delivering FedRAMP-moderate AWS environments, automation for cost and inventory, and significant performance fixes for Ansible at scale. Known for turning complex infrastructure lifecycles into repeatable, auditable processes, he combines developer empathy with operations rigor. Based in Denver, he often surfaces non-obvious reliability wins by focusing on deployment primitives and CI integration rather than just surface-level metrics.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (27)
puppeteer10
docker10
python10
puppet10
configuration-management10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
heat10
automation10
infrastructure10
openstack10
aac10
build-automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openstack-archive/tripleo-heat-templates
Sep 2016 - Dec 2021
RETIRED, Heat templates for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:500 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to infrastructure and deployment aspects within the OpenStack Heat templates repository. Their work focused on enhancing the deployment process by introducing features such as parameterized deployment hosts and the ability to install rpms via DeployArtifactURLs. Furthermore, they addressed critical issues related to container configuration and added support for Python3, ensuring the project's compatibility and maintainability. They also worked on improving the performance and reliability of the deployment process through various optimizations.
openstack
openstack/kolla
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:13 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex made several significant contributions to the Kolla project, primarily focused on enhancing build processes and configuration management for OpenStack deployments within Docker containers. Their work includes implementing features like `network_mode` and `distro_python3` options to customize container builds, as well as adding `base_package_type` and `distro_package_manager` configurations for improved flexibility. Furthermore, the user addressed deployment issues, such as increasing Ansible gather facts timeout, and addressed issues related to Magnum builds on RHEL systems. They also refactored Dockerfiles to use the new configurations, improving maintainability.
openstack
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