Andrew Stangl
Senior Consultant at Daemon
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolAndrew Stangl is a Senior Consultant and platform engineering specialist with 14 years’ experience designing and automating scalable cloud-native infrastructure across startups and enterprises. He blends deep SRE and DevOps practice—Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus and CI/CD—with hands-on configuration management from Puppet to Packer, and has led migrations to managed cloud services and zero-downtime upgrades. As founder of Ascendant Systems and through roles at Weaveworks, VIOOH and others, he has advised teams on GitOps, cluster architecture and operational resilience. An active OSS contributor, he’s improved testing and AWS integrations in prominent projects like voxpupuli/beaker and fog/fog, showing attention to idempotent builds and real-world automation pain points. Based in Gauteng but seasoned by six years in London, he combines consumer-scale production experience with a knack for pragmatic tooling and test automation that reduces operational friction.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
C++ Programming, C++ Programming at CTIA+, A+ at CompTIA
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Github Skills (24)
autoscaling10
docker10
cloud-computing10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
aws10
vagrant10
test-automation10
puppeteer9
puppet9
dns9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
bash7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/beaker
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 36 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and automation of the Beaker project. Their commits implemented SSH agent forwarding for Docker and Vagrant environments, adding tests to validate this functionality. They also modified the build process, improving the configuration of Docker options and ensuring idempotent repo installations. Furthermore, they added functionality to preserve colored output from SUT hosts.
acceptance-testingpuppet
fog/fog
Nov 2013 - Mar 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `fog/fog` repository by adding functionality related to AWS Auto Scaling, specifically the `AssociatePublicIpAddress` attribute in launch configurations. They modified several files related to AWS services, including requests, models, and parsers, and made code changes to integrate the new functionality. The user also merged upstream changes and resolved merge conflicts. This involved making changes to DNS tests, including modifications to DNS resource records.
cloud-servicesruby
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