Garison Draper
Director, Elastic Engineering at ROOSTERS FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolGarison Draper is an experienced engineering leader with 25+ years in IT and a decade-plus directing cloud and elastic engineering at Rackspace Technology, where he now serves as Director, Elastic Engineering. He combines deep hands-on cloud architecture and DevOps expertise—documented by contributions to AWS-focused open-source tooling like cloudtools/stacker—with strategic leadership in large-scale migrations and HIPAA-compliant cloud designs. Garison has led teams through complex transformations (including Onica’s acquisition and integrating Sturdy Networks), consistently driving automation, cost optimization, and production reliability. Based in Irvine, CA, he pairs operational rigor from early telecom and school-district IT roles with a board-level commitment to local charities, having directed high-impact fundraising efforts for children’s causes. Notably, his work often focuses on practical infrastructure fallbacks and deprecation handling that keep large cloud fleets resilient and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AA Business Administration, AA Business Administration at Irvine Valley CollegeIrvine High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
aws-s310
error-handling10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
devops10
python10
s3-bucket10
configuration-management9
testing8
documentation7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/stacker
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 commits, 19 PRs, 71 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Garison's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `stacker` project's interaction with AWS CloudFormation and S3. They implemented a fallback mechanism to handle S3 bucket region issues, and added features related to handling and resolving deprecation warnings in the use of `stacker`. Additionally, they introduced updates to the hook functionality and enhanced the codebase with fixes and new features within AWS integrations.
pythonaws-cloudformationdevopscloudformation-stackorchestrator
GarisonLotus/stacker
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
An opinionated AWS CloudFormation Stack builder.
Contributions:84 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 9 months
aws-cloudformationcloudformation-stackbuildertflintaws
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