Cameron Sparr
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Sparr is a seasoned backend engineer with 11 years building Go-based microservices, container platforms, and resilient cloud systems, currently working on AWS Elastic Container Service at Amazon. He has driven production-ready work across companies like Brightcove and InfluxData, architecting highly available, containerized services and leading Telegraf development for metrics collection. Cameron combines hands-on DevOps expertise—CI/CD, Docker, and container lifecycle fixes in high-profile projects like Moby and the ECS agent—with deep systems knowledge demonstrated by cross-platform improvements to gopsutil and InfluxDB. He’s comfortable owning both test automation and low-level bug fixes, and has a track record of improving observability, robustness, and performance in large distributed systems. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Computational and Applied Mathematics degree from the University of Washington with an engineer’s pragmatism and attention to platform-level detail.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Washington
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Github Skills (49)
unit-testing10
debug10
docker10
system-programming10
icmp10
multiplatform10
testing10
databases10
linux10
cross-platform10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
homebrew10
containerd10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
go-ping/ping
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
ICMP Ping library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 16 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Cameron's contributions primarily focused on developing and testing the go-ping library. They initiated the project with the first commit, implemented unit tests to ensure code quality, and addressed issues related to packet sending and receiving. The user also updated documentation and sample code and integrated the project with a CI/CD pipeline to automate testing. This includes setting a random seed to avoid ID conflicts.
golangsnmpnetworkingicmpicmp-ping
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 518 reviews, 125 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily focused on improving the robustness of the ECS agent, implementing error handling and code improvements to ensure container lifecycle management. They addressed volume resource provisioning by adding terminal reason messages for errors and improved test coverage for volume errors. Additionally, they optimized the image cleanup process for non-ECS containers by removing 'dead' and 'created' containers, as well as implementing more robust and concise code. They made improvements to the agents error handling and configuration settings.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
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