Amanda Mcguinness
Principal Consultant at Ammeon Solutions (now intive)
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanda Mcguinness is a Principal Consultant and technical lead with over 25 years of development and DevOps experience, currently driving infrastructure and automation programs at intive (formerly Ammeon). She is a senior maintainer of the well-known open-source StackStorm project, contributing both core deployment/infrastructure changes and extensive documentation that supports its use for event-driven automation and ChatOps. Amanda has led multi-site teams as Scrum Master and technical architect across cloud migrations, automated upgrades, CI/CD and orchestration projects using Python, Java, Bash and a wide toolchain (Puppet, Jenkins, Maven). Her background spans high-performance telecoms systems, middleware integration and big-data assisted fraud analysis, combining deep systems-level C/UNIX experience with modern DevOps practices. Known for practical, audit-ready designs, she also brings hands-on history porting legacy Solaris/Bash platforms to Linux and building automated functional test suites. A Cambridge Computer Science (1st) graduate, she blends academic rigor with decades of production engineering and open-source stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, 1st class Honours, BA, Computer Science, 1st class Honours at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (12)
automation10
rs10
automations10
deploying10
restructuredtext10
devops10
cicd10
documentation10
bash9
docker8
dockers8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2docs
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:69 reviews, 200 commits, 93 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily contributed to the documentation of the StackStorm project. Their commits focused on updating and modifying documentation files written in reStructuredText (RST). They updated install guides, upgrade notes, and information on packs, action runners, and workflows, including providing examples. They also addressed aspects of the documentation around RBAC and removed references to older components.
stackstorm
StackStorm/st2
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 290 reviews, 246 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Amanda primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects of the StackStorm project. Their contributions involved removing support for older operating systems (EL6, CentOS 6), removing SysV init scripts, and modifying the launchdev.sh script. The changes also included adding and removing files from the project, like tooling scripts, configuration files and test files. They also made changes to the test environment configuration files.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
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