Dennis Whitney
Principal Solutions Architect at Amadeus
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Whitney is a Principal Solutions Architect based in Texas with 11 years of experience specializing in automation, SRE, and multi-datacenter infrastructure. He architects and implements resilient automation platforms—having deployed Ansible Automation Platform at scale, redesigned Chef to Ansible playbooks, and built AWX/StackStorm solutions for production use. Dennis blends hands-on DevOps and backend work (notably contributions to the popular StackStorm project and its Docker deployment) with platform engineering, improving deploy pipelines via GitHub Actions and custom runners. He has a strong operational background across monitoring stacks (Zabbix, Splunk, Incinga) and artifact management for complex, geographically distributed environments. Known for pragmatic automation that reduces manual toil, he also designs integration workflows for ITSM/CMDB tooling like ServiceNow. A practical problem-solver, he often surfaces subtle operational gaps—such as proxy bypass bugs—and fixes them end-to-end from code to deployment.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Truckee Meadows Community College
English, Sign Language
Github Skills (29)
docker10
web-proxy10
deploying10
python10
testing10
bash10
proxy10
docker-compose10
dockers10
cicd10
http-proxy10
proxy-pac10
automation10
st10
http-request10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2-docker
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
StackStorm docker-compose deployment
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily focused on improving the deployment and automation aspects of the `st2-docker` repository. They implemented and refined startup scripts for the `st2client` and `st2chatops` services, including retry mechanisms and backoff timers to handle potential connection issues. Additionally, the user integrated BATS testing to ensure the functionality of the deployed environment. The contributions improve the robustness and reliability of the StackStorm deployment via Docker Compose.
containersdeploymentdockerstackstormcompose
StackStorm/st2
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dennis primarily focused on enhancing the proxy configuration for index searches within the StackStorm automation platform. They added the `no_proxy` configuration option and addressed issues related to proxy bypassing within the `requests` library. Additionally, they contributed to bug fixes and merged changes, specifically addressing the `no_proxy` issue in pack index searches. The user also made improvements to the build process, included fixes to the API, and also contributed to the test suite.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
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