Conner Crosby
Infrastructure Platform Engineer V
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolConner Crosby is a Systems Admin/Programmer V with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and automation for healthcare and defense environments. He blends GNU/Linux systems expertise with Python and Go development to deliver reliable IaC, CI/CD, and observability solutions—having architected Terraform account provisioning and halved test pipeline runtimes at TimelyCare. A committed open-source advocate, Conner contributes to high-impact projects like ansible-lint, improving playbook linting accuracy and developer experience. He brings practical cross-platform skills from RHEL/Debian migrations and VMware hardening to containerization and AMI automation, and he actively mentors teams on Terraform best practices. Based in Gainesville, FL, he pairs a pragmatic tool-first mindset with a long-standing preference for open-source workflows.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Georgia Southern UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Effingham County High School
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Github Skills (8)
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible9
yaml9
cicd8
devtools6
code-duplication6
ansible-role6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-lint
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 25 PRs, 38 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Conner primarily focused on improving the Ansible Lint project's functionality and reliability. They fixed issues related to role variable prefix detection, handling of FQCNs within `import_playbook` calls, and improved the handling of versioning and file paths. Their contributions enhanced the linter's accuracy and its ability to correctly identify and report issues within Ansible playbooks and collections, ultimately improving the user experience.
ansible-lintansiblepre-commit-hookdot-configpep-621
cavcrosby/shellfuncs
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
A repository of shell scripts that I wish to sync across *nix systems.
Contributions:18 PRs, 200 pushes, 22 branches in 11 months
nixshell
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