Derek Groh
DevOps Engineer at Kofax
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Groh is a DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and championing infrastructure-as-code across enterprise environments. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he has held senior operational roles at Kofax, Top Image Systems, and IBM’s SoftLayer, plus long-term systems leadership at Texas A&M where he led Windows environment consolidation and configuration management efforts. He contributes to major open-source work in Chef Infra, focusing on Windows system resources—refactoring, adding tests, and improving PowerShell compatibility—highlighting a practical depth in Windows automation that many cloud engineers overlook. Derek blends hands-on back-end development with operational rigor to deliver consistent, testable deployments and reduce production risk. He pairs an MS in Management Information Systems with a track record of mentoring teams and driving durable process improvements in both academic and commercial settings.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachlors, Business: Information and Operations Management, 3.0, Bachlors, Business: Information and Operations Management, 3.0 at Texas A&M University
English
Github Skills (15)
system-administration10
powershell10
chef-client10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
windows-administration10
admin10
devops10
server-administration10
testing9
unit-test9
unit-testing9
infrastructure8
ruby8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
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:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the `windows_workgroup` resource within the Chef Infra project. Their work included refactoring the resource, adding unit tests, and incorporating error handling. Additionally, the user modified the `windows_ad_join` resource, demonstrating a focus on Windows system configuration and automation. The user also made updates to the `windows_share` resource and addressed PowerShell compatibility issues.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
sous-chefs/windows_ad
Oct 2013 - Jul 2020
Development repository for the windows_ad cookbook
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 146 commits in 6 years 9 months
windows-servercookbookwindowswindows-8windows-service
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