Clint Armstrong
Co-Founder Engineer at Hot Aisle Inc.
Grantham, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolClint Armstrong is a Co-Founder Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient storage, networking, and automation infrastructure using open source tools. Based in New Hampshire, he has designed and operated multi-petabyte Filecoin storage clusters, automated deployments with Ansible and Go, and led datacenter rollouts that scaled to thousands of machines and hundreds of GPUs. A hands-on DevOps and backend engineer, Clint has contributed to prominent projects like HashiCorp Nomad and SaltStack—adding Docker network and static IP features—and optimized resource scheduling in the Filecoin Lotus implementation. He blends low-level systems tuning (cgroups, CPU scheduling) with practical network engineering (BGP, DMVPN, LLDP-based tooling) to deliver cost-effective, production-grade platforms. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex distributed systems requirements into maintainable, well-tested code and operational playbooks.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegeCompleted Coursework toward B.S., Computer Information Systems Management, Completed Coursework toward B.S., Computer Information Systems Management at Liberty University
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Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
docker10
python10
apidoc10
graph10
configuration-management10
network-monitoring10
collectd10
resource-management10
nomad10
dockers10
containerization10
php10
go10
saltstack10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Aug 2014 - Mar 2019
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:146 commits, 35 PRs, 103 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Clint contributed to the SaltStack repository by implementing and testing Docker container functionality. Their work included adding support for custom network modes, static IPs, and addressing related hostname issues. They also focused on improving the robustness of the system by catching invalid data and handling Unicode errors within the core grains functionality. This included modifying existing modules and creating new tests to validate networking configurations.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
librenms/librenms
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:168 commits, 19 PRs, 65 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Clint primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the LibreNMS network monitoring system. Their contributions included correcting collectd data sources, fixing issues with Apache collectd graphs, and addressing problems with the frequency data source used in collectd. They also implemented critical fixes to prevent the poller master from joining twice and to ensure proper URL encoding for graph names. Additionally, they made improvements to the handling of temperatures and fan speeds.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
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