Andy Shinn
Principal Engineer at Guideline
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndy Shinn is a Senior DevOps Engineer in Austin with 15 years of experience designing and operating compute, storage, and network infrastructure across startups and established companies. He combines deep systems and scripting expertise—evident from contributions to the widely used gliderlabs/docker-alpine image and Homebrew formula maintenance—with hands-on roles building reliable build and deployment pipelines. At Mindful he continues to drive infrastructure resilience while previously shaping platform tooling at Glider Labs, Natera, and Eye-Fi. Outside of work he’s a musician, runner, and racer, bringing the discipline of endurance sports and creative problem solving to complex operational challenges. Notably, his focus on automating image builds and streamlining testing reflects a pragmatic commitment to minimalism and reproducible infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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nginx
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Github Skills (40)
docker-machine10
alpine-linux10
docker10
package-management10
scripting10
bash10
docker-compose10
apache10
dockers10
homebrew10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
sh10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
gliderlabs/docker-alpine
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Alpine Linux Docker image. Win at minimalism!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:86 commits, 65 PRs, 754 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the project's build process and infrastructure, modifying scripts to automate and enhance the image creation. They introduced features for automated builds, including the ability to add extra repositories and set the timezone during image creation. Additionally, they refactored build scripts, optimized the build options, and improved testing procedures, focusing on streamlining the build pipeline. Their work centered on the shell scripting and integration with Docker to manage Alpine Linux images.
alpine-linuxdocker-image
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 14 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to updating and maintaining formulas within the Homebrew package manager. Their work focused on updating various software packages, including fleetctl, docker, boot2docker, and deis, by modifying their respective formula files. These changes involved updating URLs, SHA hashes, and version numbers to reflect newer releases of these software projects, effectively ensuring the availability of current software versions through the Homebrew ecosystem. Additionally, they introduced the deisctl and dxpy formulas.
homebrew
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