Andrew Gaffney
Senior DevOps Engineer at Applause
Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Gaffney is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 14+ years of experience building and automating large-scale Linux infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. He has led migrations from legacy systems (DC/OS, Linkerd 1.x, Jenkins) to Kubernetes and implemented production-grade automation using Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, and custom tools in Go and Python. Andrew combines deep systems expertise (including at-scale Consul, Mesos/Marathon, OpenStack, Ceph) with a knack for pragmatic engineering: creating utilities, operators, and DSLs that make developer workflows seamless. He is an active contributor to the Ansible project, having implemented core improvements like a stdout callback plugin and key bug fixes. Based in Missouri, he excels at translating operational chaos into repeatable, auditable automation and often prefers solving problems by building small focused tools rather than overengineering.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible10
devops9
documentation8
linux7
yaml5
bash4
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Dec 2015 - Dec 2019
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 54 commits, 63 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Ansible project by implementing and improving various aspects of its core functionality. They developed a new stdout callback plugin to filter output. Additionally, they addressed quoting issues in the codebase, updated documentation, and fixed bugs related to service manager detection and file transfer. The contributions involved Python code, documentation updates, and modifications to the Ansible core, indicating a good understanding of the project's architecture and operational aspects.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
blinklabs-io/gouroboros
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Go implementation of the Cardano Ouroboros family of protocols
Contributions:77 releases, 358 reviews, 157 commits in 1 year 1 month
cardanogogolangnetworkprotocol
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