Cody Garver
DevOps Engineer at NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Garver is a DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient release pipelines, infrastructure automation, and Linux distributions, best known as a co-founder and the persona "the OS" behind elementary OS with over 9 million downloads. He combines deep hands-on skills—Ansible, Docker, Debian/Ubuntu packaging, RPM build systems, and CI/CD—with security-minded update distribution and ISO generation for custom OS releases. At NOAA he operates self-hosted development platforms and Jenkins/Gerrit pipelines for critical weather systems, melding scripting (Bash, Python, Groovy) with container and configuration automation. Cody’s work spans both user-facing desktop app release management (Code editor contributions included) and low-level distro maintenance, making him equally comfortable fixing UI tooltips as orchestrating global CDNs and nightly container rebuilds. He’s practiced in leading distributed developer collaborations and organizing events, and often solves problems by inventing pragmatic, low-maintenance toolchains rather than buying complex platforms.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Brandon High SchoolAssociate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator, Associate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Hinds Community College
Github Skills (5)
debug10
gtk10
ui-design10
mson8
mesonbuild8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
elementary/code
Aug 2011 - Mar 2019
Code editor designed for elementary OS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 155 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the "Code" editor, working on both UI and application-level features. They fixed and added elements to the about menu and preferences dialog, integrating license information and visual elements. Furthermore, they made grammar and tooltip adjustments, as well as added filters to the file open dialog, demonstrating front-end and application feature development skills.
gtk3code-editorelementary-oselementarypantheon
elementary/os-patches
Oct 2013 - Oct 2019
Patched packages for elementary OS and the tools that keep them up-to-date
Contributions:663 commits, 5 PRs, 206 pushes in 6 years
patchedelementary-oskeepelementaryup-to-date
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