Darwin Sanoy
Field CTO, Digital Engineering And Embedded Systems at GitLab
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarwin Sanoy is a Field CTO and seasoned DevOps/embedded systems architect with 11 years of experience helping complex physical-product teams (Aerospace, Automotive, IoT, semiconductors) apply lean Agile and DevOps practices to digital engineering. He blends hands-on coding—40% of his week is technical design and implementation—with customer collaboration and enablement, authoring working examples, trainings, and conference talks to accelerate adoption. At GitLab he’s driven partner engineering and integrations with AWS, built reusable enablement architectures, and now focuses on adapting software-centered DevOps for safety- and stability-critical edge systems. An active open-source contributor and Chocolatey trusted packager, he’s improved cross-platform PowerShell installation and containerized build flows in widely used projects like PowerShell Core. Known as a coach and mentor, he pairs pragmatic automation with product-minded architecture to deliver value-dense tools that teams are excited to use.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems (MIS) at Ambassador University
Github Skills (17)
scripting10
bash10
amazon-linux10
automation10
script10
install-script10
powershell10
automations10
devops10
dockers9
linux9
docker9
command-line9
shell9
macos8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PowerShell
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 195 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Darwin primarily focused on enhancing the installation scripts and build processes for PowerShell Core across various operating systems. They made significant contributions to the `install-powershell.sh` script, adding support for Amazon Linux and improving the autodetection of necessary tools like `curl` and `wget`. Furthermore, they implemented changes to streamline the installation process, incorporating features like preview releases and the addition of a path cleanup utility. The user's work also involved creating and modifying Dockerfiles to support containerized builds and testing.
powershellwindowsmacoslinuxcommand-line
DarwinJS/ChocoPackages
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:315 commits, 18 PRs, 313 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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