Edwin A
Lead Engineer - Platform AI
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin A is a Lead Engineer specializing in Platform AI with a decade of hands-on experience building and automating cloud infrastructure at scale. He blends deep expertise in CI/CD and deployment tooling—Spinnaker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Drone—with infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Packer, Docker, Consul, and Vault across AWS and GCP. At Target and previously at AWS and Code42 he has led platform and server group deployment efforts, moving teams from manual ops to repeatable, secure pipelines. He contributes to notable open-source tooling like spinnaker/halyard, where he improved OpenStack bakery functionality and enhanced Docker registry security—Practical fixes that reflect a focus on production reliability. A polyglot engineer comfortable in Python, Go, and shell, he pairs technical leadership with pragmatic coding to ship resilient systems. Based in Minneapolis with a BA in Linguistics, he brings an unusual mix of operational rigor and clear communication rooted in a language-focused background.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Linguistics, BA Linguistics at Carleton College
English, Spanish, Japanese, German
Github Skills (9)
javas10
configuration-management10
openstack10
java10
hal10
dockers9
docker9
devops8
bash7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/halyard
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
A tool for configuring, installing, and updating Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily focused on adding and improving Openstack bakery functionality for the Spinnaker/Halyard tool. This involved adding commands, fixing formatting, and addressing virtualization settings. They also implemented domain name validation for the Openstack bakery defaults. Furthermore, the user added functionality to configure a password command for Docker registry, enhancing security.
installingupdatingspinnaker
aws-samples/aws-deploy-spinnaker-halyard
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
AWS CloudFormation templates and scripting around launching an EKS cluster to run Spinnaker. The Spinnaker installation will allow for EC2 and EKS deployments.
Contributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
scriptingaws-cloudformationec2cost-optimizationinstallation
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