Chris Trombley
Staff Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolChris Trombley is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with 18+ years of hands-on experience and over a decade in senior engineering roles delivering full-stack and systems solutions. He has led teams and platforms at New Relic and Indigo, driving developer productivity through tooling, SDLC platforms, and a Backstage-based developer portal. At New Relic he led the official Terraform provider and Kubernetes operator work, applying code generation and automation to scale feature delivery while improving observability-as-code. Currently at HashiCorp, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, testing, and deployment safety informed by extensive incident and runbook work on legacy monoliths. An active open-source contributor, he has improved test coverage and backend plugins in prominent projects like the Backstage framework and the New Relic Terraform provider. Known for curiosity and knowledge-sharing, he blends deep engineering craft with a bias toward delivery and reproducible infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (30)
back-end-development10
testing10
alertdialog10
typescript10
alertview10
alerts10
terraform10
terraformer10
backstage10
go10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
backend10
api-design9
git-repository9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/terraform-provider-newrelic
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Terraform provider for New Relic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 releases, 86 reviews, 514 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on fixing failing acceptance tests within the Terraform provider for New Relic. Their contributions involved modifying test configurations and code to address issues in various resources, including alert policies, conditions, and synthetics monitors. They also added new acceptance tests to improve test coverage. Furthermore, the user addressed build issues by fixing unit tests and contributing to project refactoring efforts.
newrelicproviderdeveloper-toolkitdeveloper-toolsterraform
backstage/backstage
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 27 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Backstage framework, specifically within the scaffolding and tech-insights backend plugins. Their work involved implementing features such as defining required status checks and updating the proxy endpoint, and refactoring code, demonstrating a focus on API and configuration management. These changes included adjustments to the `publish:github` action, and extending functionalities within the Tech Insights backend. They also updated various unit tests.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
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