Conor Nosal is a senior software developer and tech lead with over a decade of experience building backend, platform, and mobile systems across healthcare, supply chain, and cloud-native environments. He has led engineering teams at VMware and Verily, architecting Kubernetes-native security tooling, orchestrating large-scale vulnerability scanning, and reducing developer toil through automation. Conor is an active contributor to Cloud Foundry projects like BOSH and bosh-cli, where he improved deployment lifecycle, CLI semantics, and instance management—work that reflects both deep backend engineering and pragmatic DevOps practice. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, regularly authoring design docs and unblocking customer deployments. He brings a practical mix of security-conscious platform design and product-focused delivery, with an early background in mobile and embedded tooling that informs his systems-thinking approach.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Conor focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) functionality for the BOSH deployment tool. Their contributions included adding flags like `--converge` and `--no-converge` to commands like `bosh start`, `bosh stop`, `bosh restart`, and `bosh recreate`. They implemented logic to handle these flags, preventing invalid combinations, and ensuring that the commands behave as expected when interacting with specific instances. This work involved modifying multiple files related to CLI commands and the underlying deployment logic.
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 50 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Cloud Foundry BOSH project's codebase. They streamlined instance management tasks by consolidating several jobs into a single "update_instance" job, enhancing event logging and deployment processes. Furthermore, the user addressed health monitor alerts and added signing URLs to the syncing of DNS. These contributions suggest a blend of back-end improvements and DevOps practices within the BOSH environment.
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Conor Nosal - Senior Software Developer (Tech Lead) at Verily