Derek Tamsen
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxData
San Francisco, California, United States
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SeniorDerek Tamsen is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in San Francisco with 14+ years building reliable, scalable infrastructure across cloud and on-prem systems. At InfluxData he manages 20 Kubernetes clusters across AKS, EKS, GKE and kubeadm, drives GitOps with ArgoCD, and uses Terraform and Atlantis to manage multi-cloud infrastructure and integrations like Vault, New Relic, and SSO. He blends hands-on automation—converting Helm to Jsonnet, running istio, and deploying k8s-vault sidecars—with architectural guidance on microservices, gRPC/protobufs, and backend-for-frontend patterns. An avid systems tinkerer, he’s contributed to Foreman provisioning templates (including LVM crypto and Windows puppet-agent setup), showing depth from hardware to cloud and a knack for pragmatic tooling choices validated by rigorous testing.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (10)
puppeteer10
provisioning10
puppet10
debian10
erb10
automation9
automations9
windows9
lvm9
git8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/community-templates
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
A place to share templates for various OSes for Foreman's provisioning
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 9 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to improving the template provisioning system within the Foreman project. Their work includes enhancing preseed scripts with options for update policies, post-install upgrades, and kernel image specification. They also added Windows puppet-agent setup and configuration to puppet snippets and fixed issues related to puppet repository inclusion. Additionally, the user made improvements to the preseed partitioning process and incorporated features like LVM crypto volume support and disk label specification.
placeprovisioningshareforeman
squarit/puppet-openlldp
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
puppet-modulelldppuppet
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