Dylan Ratcliffe
Founder & CEO at Overmind
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Ratcliffe is the founder and CEO of Overmind and a seasoned infrastructure engineer with 11 years’ experience helping teams deploy confidently through better impact analysis and automation. He built Onceover for Puppet test automation and has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like voxpupuli/beaker and puppetlabs-lvm, improving test infrastructure and automating LVM management. Dylan progressed through technical and managerial roles at Puppet across EMEA and international teams, combining hands-on engineering with people leadership. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on simplifying complex systems for operators and has a practical streak demonstrated by adding structured facts and task automation to real-world infrastructure modules.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate II in Information Technology, Certificate II in Information Technology at St Augustine's CollegeBachelor of Information Technology (Industry Scholarship), Bachelor of Information Technology (Industry Scholarship) at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (20)
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
test-framework10
acceptance-testing10
automation10
automations10
devops10
ruby9
environment-variables9
sup9
su9
python-modules9
shell8
sh8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppetlabs-lvm
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Puppet Module to manage LVM
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 13 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dylan primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the Puppet module for managing LVM. Their work involved fixing instantiation methods, enabling `puppet resource`, and adding structured facts related to logical, physical, and volume groups. They also introduced tasks and plans to automate LVM management, reflecting a focus on automation and orchestration. This suggests an emphasis on infrastructure-as-code principles.
trusted-contributorlvmpuppet-modulepuppetsupported
voxpupuli/beaker
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Puppet Acceptance Testing Harness
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Dylan contributed to the `beaker` project by addressing testing-related issues and enhancing the test infrastructure. Their work includes modifications to testing procedures, as evidenced by the "Fixed Tests" commit and adjustments to the `spec/beaker/host_spec.rb` file. They also worked on removing uppercasing assumptions and other related cleanup tasks in the codebase, suggesting a focus on improving the codebase. They also enhanced environment variable handling within the testing framework.
acceptance-testingpuppettestingacceptanceharness
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