Andrew Shafer
Principal at Ergonautic
Greater Tucson Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shafer is a principal technology leader with 15 years of experience architecting cloud-native platforms, automation, and analytics to modernize organizations at the intersection of people, process, and technology. He has led transformation programs at Red Hat and Pivotal and co-founded Puppet, helping pioneer infrastructure-as-code and DevOps practices that scaled across enterprises and service providers. Known for turning theory into practice, he builds high-performing teams and pragmatic systems that change behavior, not just metrics. Based in the Greater Tucson Area, he now advances human-technology collaboration through Ergonautic, focusing on simple, durable solutions to complex sociotechnical problems. Notably, his background spans hands-on engineering from embedded systems to large-scale OpenStack and hybrid cloud deployments, giving him deep credibility across product, delivery, and operations.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Weber State UniversityChemistry, Chemistry at Reed College
Stackoverflow
437reputation
19kreached
1answer
1question
matrix
top-5%
Github Skills (85)
docker10
ecosystem9
matrix9
golang9
kubelet9
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
gcp9
google-cloud9
cloud-platform9
bootstrap9
container9
graph9
go9
openstack9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
littleidea/weirdtrickmafia.fm
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Site for the podcast.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 11 branches in 5 months
podcast
jessfraz/weirdtrickmafia.fm
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Site for the podcast.
Contributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
podcast
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