Clinton Wolfe
Enterprise Software Architect at Progress
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClinton Wolfe is an Enterprise Software Architect with 13 years of experience helping organizations streamline delivery and reduce friction across the application lifecycle. He blends hands-on DevSecOps engineering—particularly in Ruby and infrastructure tooling—with leadership roles spanning engineering management and cloud architecture. At Chef and in notable open-source projects like Test Kitchen and its EC2 driver, he improved testing, installation, and AWS instance management including spot instances and GP3 support. Clinton has led large migrations and platform modernizations for financial and media clients, emphasizing security, cost efficiency, and developer experience. A DevOpsDays Philadelphia co-organizer, he pairs community leadership with practical tooling contributions. Based in Pennsylvania, he’s also an avid photographer and father, bringing a pragmatic, human-centered perspective to complex technical problems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computational and Applied Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (15)
ec10
ruby10
test-kitchen10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
amazon-ec210
provisioning10
automations10
aws10
testing10
terraform7
terraformer7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
A Test Kitchen Driver for Amazon EC2
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 23 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Clinton primarily contributed to the `test-kitchen/kitchen-ec2` repository by modifying code related to the creation and management of EC2 instances within the Test Kitchen framework. Their work involved expanding testing for tagging at creation, refactoring code related to spot instances, and pushing tag configurations into the instance generator. They also addressed issues with CentOS image selection and made updates to support GP3 volumes. These commits indicate a focus on improving the functionality, testing, and maintainability of the EC2 driver.
ec2ruby-gemtest-kitchenamazon-ec2kitchen
test-kitchen/test-kitchen
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Test Kitchen is an integration tool for developing and testing infrastructure code and software on isolated target platforms
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 18 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Clinton primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the project, specifically within the context of the `test-kitchen` repository. They focused on improving the installation process of Chef, the core technology behind `test-kitchen`. The user's work included refactoring install commands, adding error messages, and ensuring proper configuration for different operating systems. Furthermore, the user enhanced the project's concurrency and plugin management.
infrastructure-testingruby-gemtest-kitchendevelopingkitchen
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