Amelia Downs
Staff Software Engineer at VMware
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmelia Downs is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-availability, Go-based backend systems and cloud-native networking for PaaS platforms. At VMware/Pivotal she drives technical direction for Tanzu networking—spanning high-throughput HTTP/TCP ingress, CNIs, overlay networks, and iptables policy—while mentoring teams and creating enduring onboarding curricula. She blends hands-on systems work (including contributions to the golang compiler and core Cloud Foundry projects like gorouter and diego-release) with sustainable engineering practices, CI/CD, and TDD. Comfortable leading severity-1 customer escalations, she pairs deep debugging skills with the communication needed to de-escalate and coordinate cross-team mitigations. Her background in physics and early lab automation work informs a research-minded approach to reproducibility and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dev BootcampBS in Physics, Minor in Mathematics, BS in Physics, Minor in Mathematics at Tufts University
Github Skills (49)
test-automation10
bosh10
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
programming-language10
tls1210
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
gomega10
api-design10
routers10
restful-api10
testing10
css10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/gorouter
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
CF Router
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 39 commits, 57 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Amelia primarily contributed to the Cloud Foundry gorouter, focusing on improving the router's behavior and stability. Their work involved implementing TLS-related features, specifically around client certificate validation and handling. They also addressed bugs and implemented code changes related to access logging, including human-readable timestamps and session affinity enhancements, enhancing the router's observability and functionality. Furthermore, the user reverted a change and fixed a race condition, showing attention to detail and the stability of the system.
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cloudfoundry/diego-release
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
BOSH Release for Diego
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:22 reviews, 37 commits, 33 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Amelia's contributions focused on infrastructure and configuration management within the Diego release. They primarily updated and refined the BOSH release configuration templates and scripts, including the `rep_ctl.erb` script, and added configuration for features like trusted certificates. The changes included adding and modifying file limits, and ensuring correct IP parsing for various Diego components, reflecting a focus on improving operational readiness and stability. These updates demonstrate a strong understanding of deployment configurations and best practices for the system.
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