Austin Hemmelgarn
Site Reliability DevOps Engineer at Netdata (netdata.cloud)
Dayton, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAustin Hemmelgarn is a Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer with 13 years of IT experience and over five years focused on system administration, reliability, and software integration. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he leverages deep expertise in Linux and BSD plus fluency in multiple programming languages to diagnose and remediate performance and reliability issues in complex distributed systems. At Netdata he has helped harden the popular open-source Netdata Agent—improving alarm notifications, reducing email spam, adding new integrations, and automating cross-platform packaging and Docker reliability. His background includes hands-on IT operations at a manufacturing firm, giving him practical insight into bridging legacy infrastructure with cloud-native tooling. Outside of engineering he studies linguistics and history, a curiosity that surfaces in his methodical troubleshooting and attention to communication. He combines pragmatic ops craftsmanship with active open-source contributions that improve observability at scale.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Kettering Fairmont High School
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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18kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (28)
docker10
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bash10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
devops10
alerts9
alertview9
alertdialog9
go9
system-administration9
automated-tests8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
netdata/netdata
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Architected for speed. Automated for easy. Monitoring and troubleshooting, transformed!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1134 reviews, 723 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Austin primarily contributed to improving the reliability and functionality of the Netdata Agent. They focused on enhancements to the alarm notification system by addressing email spam issues and adding support for Prowl and Fleep integrations. Additionally, the user made contributions to the build system by automating the packaging of dependencies and adding support for various operating systems. They also addressed key issues related to the system's Docker images and the reliability of the update mechanisms.
observabilitynotificationsgrafanaprometheusdashboard
netdata/helper-images
Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
Docker base, builder and package- builder images for Netdata
Contributions:53 reviews, 101 commits, 324 PRs in 3 years 1 month
package-builderdockerbuildernetdata
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