Burton Rheutan
Principal DevOps Engineer at HubSharp Solutions, LLC
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBurton Rheutan is a Principal DevOps Engineer in Austin with 11 years of experience building reliable, automated delivery pipelines and production systems across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep software and architecture skills with hands-on DevOps work—improving build and deployment flows for projects like the widely used OpenFaaS CLI and contributing watchdog and gateway improvements to the core OpenFaaS project. A former BMW technician and Navy aircrew loadmaster, Burton brings a diagnostic mindset and systems-level troubleshooting approach that often uncovers software-root causes others miss. He has led CI/CD migrations, performance optimizations, and monitoring/alerting platforms that materially reduced downtime and operational toil. Constantly learning and asking tough questions, he balances pragmatic implementation with a strong open-source ethos and a track record of mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSIT, Software Engineering, 3.9GPA, BSIT, Software Engineering, 3.9GPA at University of PhoenixAssociate of Applied Science, Automotive, 4.0, Associate of Applied Science, Automotive, 4.0 at Universal Technical Institute
Github Skills (21)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openfaas10
golang10
functions-as-a-service10
serverless10
functionfs10
automations10
cli10
npm9
yaml9
api8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/faas
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 46 PRs, 223 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Burton primarily focused on improving the OpenFaaS watchdog component, fixing bugs, and optimizing its behavior. They modified the watchdog's configuration and logging, making changes to default settings and output. Additionally, the user updated the DockerHubStats function, adding support for repository pull counts and fixing JSON parsing errors. Furthermore, the user enhanced the gateway UI, adding validation for user input and additional fields for more advanced function deployments.
serverlessaws-lambdaprometheusawslambda
openfaas/faas-cli
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 13 PRs, 112 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Burton primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the OpenFaaS CLI. They updated the build scripts for different Node.js templates and addressed issues related to pushing function images to Docker Hub, including validation and error handling. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to prevent duplicate function creation using the append flag and also contributed to the npm installation process with tests.
golanglambdapythonfaas-clitemplating
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