Ammon Lauritzen
Senior Server Engineer at Certain Affinity
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorAmmon Lauritzen is a Senior Server Engineer in Austin with 13 years of experience building and maintaining Linux-first infrastructure and Java-based services. He blends systems administration and software development expertise across Debian, Nginx, and MySQL/MariaDB stacks, while contributing to both client- and server-side tooling. At Certain Affinity he focuses on reliable server systems; prior roles at Aspyr Media and Night Owl Games underscore his game-industry backend experience. An active open-source contributor, he improved build stability and security for a Helm S3 plugin by updating dependencies and Go tooling. Comfortable with automation and orchestration, he pursues interests in Chef, containers, virtualization, and network architecture. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, behind-the-scenes engineering that keeps complex services running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
security10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
updater10
security-scan10
aws-s39
docker8
dockers8
jenkins6
shell6
jenkins-pipeline6
svn-checkout6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hypnoglow/helm-s3
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
⎈ Helm plugin that adds support for AWS S3 as a chart repository.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Ammon primarily focused on improving the build process and dependency management of the Helm plugin. They addressed security vulnerabilities by updating dependencies, including `helm/v3` and related libraries. The user also updated the Go version and resolved issues related to go mod tidy. These contributions improved the project's security and build stability.
helm-registryhelm-plugincharthelmhelm-plugins
ExtrabiomesXL/EBXL
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
Clean rewrite of EBXL.
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
rewriteclean
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