Chaz Ruhl
DevOps Engineer at Thrown Elements Pottery
Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChaz Ruhl is a DevOps engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining resilient infrastructure across finance, media, and security firms, currently driving operations at Neustar Security Services. He pairs deep systems and UNIX/storage background with configuration and release engineering expertise developed at Cars.com and Bank of America, enabling reliable production delivery at scale. Known for clear communication, attention to detail, and a dry sense of humor, he excels at translating complex technical needs into elegant, auditable solutions. Outside tech he co-owns a pottery business and holds an MFA in Musical Theatre, a combination that surfaces in creative problem solving and calm leadership under pressure.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, Musical Theatre, MFA, Musical Theatre at Shenandoah University
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Github Skills (90)
python10
ssh10
lvm10
ansible10
recipe10
test-kitchen9
automation9
infrastructure9
devops9
kitchen9
mruby9
jenkins9
cookbook9
django8
scale8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chazzly/foodcritic
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
managed-by-terraformlintchefcookbooks
chazzly/knife-verschart
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
chartcookbooksknifeplug-inchef-resource
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