Allison Walther
Senior II Infrastructure Engineer at Hex
Buena Vista, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAllison Walther is a Senior II Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, most recently owning cloud at Hex after leading infrastructure at dbt Labs and Strava. She has deep hands-on experience provisioning GKE, networking (NCC hub, PSC, VPC), large-scale Kafka ecosystems, and automation with Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Allison also brings data engineering chops from roles at Viasat and Apple—managing half-petabyte-per-day Kafka clusters and delivering analytics pipelines and observability tooling. She has contributed technical documentation and validation tooling to prominent open-source demos for the Confluent Platform, demonstrating an attention to clarity and reproducibility. Based in Buena Vista, Colorado, Allison pairs strong operational rigor with a commitment to mentoring and advancing the LGBTQ+ community in tech.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Centre College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (5)
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sphinx9
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kafka9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-demo
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Confluent Platform Demo including Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, Control Center, Schema Registry, Security, Schema Linking, and Cluster Linking
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Allison primarily focused on updating and migrating documentation for the Confluent Platform Demo. Their work included modifying documentation files (e.g., `index.rst`, `conf.py`) to reflect changes in links and versions, and to incorporate updates related to the platform. The commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining the accuracy and relevance of the demo's documentation, specifically addressing changes in how the documentation is hosted and how the components interact. They also updated a validation script.
linkingconfluent-platformkafka-connectapache-kafkasasl
awalther28/rawSnap
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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