Curtis Hovey
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarCurtis Hovey is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud and web applications, especially around enterprise-scale services and CI/CD for multi-cloud deployments. He has deep hands-on experience from Canonical—where he led Juju packaging, multi-OS release management, and QA for 29 OS/architecture/cloud combinations—to earlier roles building high-performance web platforms and e-commerce systems. Curtis is comfortable across the stack and in DevOps roles, managing fleets of machines and automating releases and tests to ensure reliable production delivery. He introduced agile, TDD, and continuous integration practices at multiple organizations and engineered frameworks that dramatically reduced launch time for complex sites. An open-source contributor, he improved Homebrew packaging for Juju (including OS compatibility patches and bash completions), reflecting a knack for smoothing developer and operator experience. Based in Alexandria, VA, he thrives on interesting problems that require durable, scalable solutions and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
homebrew10
go10
bash7
devops6
cicd6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Nov 2013 - Jan 2016
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:38 commits, 19 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily contributed to the Homebrew formula for the `juju` project. Their work focused on updating the formula to include newer versions of `juju`, ensuring the software could be installed and managed using Homebrew. They also incorporated patches and updates to support new features and resolve compatibility issues, such as patching El Capitan support. Furthermore, the user added functionality, such as bash completion, to enhance the user experience within the Homebrew environment.
macoshomebrew
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