Colin Johnson
DevOps Consultant And Owner at CloudAvail Technology Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolColin Johnson is a DevOps consultant and owner with 14 years of experience designing and operating web-scale infrastructure from his San Francisco-based boutique firm. He brings deep, hands-on expertise across AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, CloudFormation, RDS, S3, Route 53 and more), Linux, containers, CI/CD and configuration management, and routinely builds automation and production-ready tooling in Python. Colin has delivered migrations, bespoke training, and staff augmentation for Bay Area companies while contributing practical open-source tools for AWS resource management and automated backup/deployment pipelines. He pairs an operator’s focus on reliability and monitoring with software engineering rigor—adding unit tests and hardening systems in mission-critical environments. Notably, he has contributed boto modules to SaltStack testing and written widely used automation for AWS administration, reflecting a blend of consultancy, engineering, and open-source impact.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Merritt CollegeIncomplete, Liberal and Civic Studies / Religious Studies, Incomplete, Liberal and Civic Studies / Religious Studies at St. Mary's College of CaliforniaCollege of Alameda
English
Github Skills (6)
bash10
amazon-ec210
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
devops10
python7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cloudavail/aws-missing-tools
Jun 2012 - Apr 2019
tools for managing AWS resources including EC2, EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation and Route53.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Colin contributed to the management and operation of AWS resources, specifically focusing on EC2, EBS, and potentially RDS. Their work included adding features to manage AWS credentials, and updating the code for better semantics. They also worked on implementing and modifying scripts related to backup and HA releases. Further contributions were made to automate backup processes, and improvements to the deployment pipeline.
ec2rdsroute53amazonaws-resources
cloudavail/awstraining
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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