Cameron Thornton
Software Engineer at Google
Frisco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Thornton is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and enterprise applications, currently contributing to Terraform for Google Cloud at Google. He blends backend systems work with technical writing—adding compute instance features and docs to the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-google and related Magic Modules—demonstrating both implementation and communication strengths. Previously at Capital One he worked across Java microservices and Angular frontends, and started his career in full‑stack and Unity development during his studies. Holding a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, he enjoys tackling hard infrastructure problems and improving developer experience through clear docs and test coverage.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (11)
testing10
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
go10
google-compute-engine10
google-cloud10
terraform10
documentation10
gcp10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2093 reviews, 228 commits, 1265 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to improving the documentation and updating code for the Google Cloud Platform support within the Terraform "magic-modules" repository. Their work included adding documentation for new features and updating existing documentation pages. The user implemented changes related to compute instances and network configuration and made code changes to incorporate support for new Google Cloud Platform features. Furthermore, they added and enhanced tests across resources.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform (Beta)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 125 reviews, 123 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cameron's commits focused on enhancing the `google-beta/resource_compute_instance.go` and `google-beta/resource_compute_instance_template.go` files, suggesting work related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) compute instances. Their primary contribution involved adding support for a display device to compute instances, including corresponding tests in `resource_compute_instance_test.go` and `resource_compute_instance_template_test.go`. The changes involved modifications to resource schemas, expansion, flattening of data structures, and updates.
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