Andy Grimm
President Elect at Apex Sunrise Rotary Club
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Grimm is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 14 years in engineering and site reliability roles, now serving as VP of Engineering Operations at Pendo and President Elect of the Apex Sunrise Rotary Club. He has deep cloud and platform experience from hands-on roles at Red Hat and Eucalyptus, including back-end work on the well-known Eucalyptus cloud platform focused on upgrades, DB migrations, and authentication improvements. Andy’s career spans technical leadership—managing SRE teams and release engineering—to strategic operational roles that scale engineering processes across fast-growing companies. He combines practical systems expertise (Linux/Solaris, OpenShift, cloud orchestration) with nonprofit board leadership, having led Meals on Wheels of Wake County as board president. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who moves between code-level problem solving and cross-functional operational strategy. Based in Apex, NC, he brings a rare mix of open-source contributor experience and enterprise operations leadership.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Math Computer Science Economics, BS Math Computer Science Economics at Ohio UniversityBrooke High School
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Github Skills (15)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
back-end-development10
groovy10
cloud-computing9
openshift6
nodejs6
linux6
mongodb6
haproxy6
scaling6
operating-system6
java5
postgresql5
javas5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
eucalyptus/eucalyptus
May 2012 - Apr 2013
Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andy's contributions focused on upgrading the Eucalyptus Cloud-computing Platform, particularly in the context of database migrations and configuration updates. They worked on scripting upgrades to new versions, which involved significant modifications to the core Groovy scripts used for the upgrade process. The user also made changes to improve the handling of user authentication, image metadata, and other core functionalities. The commits include bug fixes for existing upgrade operations.
cloudkubernetescloud-computingcomputing
pendo-io/gcs-s3-sync
Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
A Google Cloud Function to sync files from a GCS bucket into an S3 bucket
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 10 months
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