Cameron Otts
Senior Software Consultant
Denham Springs, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Otts is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, backend-first systems primarily in Go, SQL, and cloud-native AWS environments. He has deep hands-on expertise in distributed networking and peer-to-peer platforms, contributing to OpenZiti and zrok where he worked on CLI tooling, raft interactions, token-based account flows, and database schema evolution. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered SDKs in Python and TypeScript and has shipped React front-ends for admin tooling. As a consultant he combined data engineering, reporting (Looker), workflow automation, and early experimentation with LLMs to solve small-business problems. Based in Denham Springs, Louisiana, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a gamer’s curiosity for fun problems and system-level robustness.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Southeastern Louisiana University
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Github Skills (28)
command-line-interface10
networking10
go10
sql10
command-line10
golang10
network-security10
zero-trust10
cli10
api-design9
restful-api9
vpn9
api-rest9
security9
rest-api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openziti/ziti
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
The parent project for OpenZiti. Here you will find the executables for a fully zero trust, application embedded, programmable network @OpenZiti
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 29 commits, 24 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily focused on enhancing the edge and fabric command-line interfaces for the OpenZiti project. They implemented features such as router cost and traversal controls, adding related flags and functionalities to the CLI tools. The user also addressed dependency updates and made changelog adjustments while integrating circuit creation timespan and fixing gopsutil-related deprecation issues to improve system integrity. Additionally, they added new commands for raft interactions, demonstrating involvement with the underlying distributed consensus mechanisms.
zero-trust-network-accesszero-trust-securityopenzitizero-trustztha
openziti/zrok
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Geo-scale, next-generation peer-to-peer sharing platform built on top of OpenZiti.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 28 commits, 32 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the zrok platform. They implemented a stored token implementation, including generating invitation tokens and integrating it with the account request system. The user also made modifications to the database schema and SQL queries. Furthermore, they worked on the admin portal, including security, and the configuration endpoint, demonstrating involvement in core service features.
file-sharinggolangnetworkpeer-to-peerreverse-proxy
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