Dave Sanderson
Cloud Architect at JobNimbus
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDave Sanderson is a Cloud Architect with 11 years of experience designing secure, automated cloud and database solutions, currently leading cloud architecture at JobNimbus from Salt Lake City. He blends hands-on DevOps and systems engineering—from VMware and NetApp to Azure and AWS—with a strong focus on cloud security and deployment automation. Previously he supported customers at AWS as a Senior Technical Account Manager and led DevOps and Azure transitions at enterprise firms, giving him both operational depth and customer-facing strategic experience. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved Windows support in HashiCorp Packer’s salt-masterless provisioner, showing a knack for cross-platform provisioning edge cases. Practical, security-minded, and product-aware, he pairs deep infrastructure skill with a history of shipping reliable, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Cyprus High School
English
Github Skills (9)
windows10
powershell10
saltstack10
devops10
automation9
automations9
go9
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dave primarily focused on enhancing the `packer` project's functionality by introducing and refining support for the Windows operating system within the salt-masterless provisioner. This included implementing commands for Windows, adjusting file paths, and modifying the bootstrapping process. The contributions show the user addressed existing issues and improved the reliability and functionality of the salt-masterless provisioner for Windows environments. Furthermore, the user implemented new functionality for remote file and directory operations.
packer
brokenbot/binaryreaderwriter
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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