Corey Hemminger
Principal Customer Architect at Progress Chef
Monticello, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolCorey Hemminger is a Principal Customer Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient DevOps and systems engineering solutions for large enterprises. He combines early-career expertise in network and command center operations with modern cloud and automation tooling—AWS, Terraform, Chef, PowerShell, and VMware—to lead migrations, releases, and risk-averse deployments. A long-time contributor to prominent open-source Chef projects (including work on chef/chef and chef/bento), he brings practical automation experience building base images and hardening client configuration logic. Corey’s background in the Air Force and high-performance computing gives him an uncommon operational discipline and focus on uptime, while his cross-functional career lets him translate business constraints into pragmatic technical choices. Based in Monticello, MN, he excels at keeping servers, networks, and services running smoothly while automating repeatable infrastructure workflows.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Elective Studies Information Systems, Bachelor of Elective Studies Information Systems at St. Cloud State University
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windows10
linux10
bash10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
packer10
powershell10
chef-solo10
automations10
vagrant10
vmware9
devops9
virtualbox9
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chef/bento
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 101 reviews, 36 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to automating the build and deployment processes for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes. The commits show modifications to build scripts, including Bash scripts and PowerShell scripts, for various platforms like Amazon Linux, Debian, and Windows. They worked on adjusting build configurations, fixing errors, and integrating updated OS versions and versions of tools like VirtualBox and VMware.
hyper-vfreebsdvmware-fusionvagrantvms
chef/chef
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 45 commits, 56 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the Chef Infra automation platform, focusing on enhancements to the Windows Task resource and client configuration. Their work included bug fixes related to day validation with monthly frequencies, adding features like expire and inactive options for the Linux user resource, and improving the directory creation logic. They also updated tests and made linting improvements to the code, as well as the configuration process.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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