Gary Larizza
Developer at IBM
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Larizza is an operations-focused developer and DevOps practitioner in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of hands-on experience helping enterprise customers adopt cloud and automation workflows. He’s delivered everything from Puppet migrations and large-scale Terraform modules to CI/CD and observability integrations for customers like Google, HashiCorp, Credit Karma and Twitter, and he contributed to the terraform-google-network project by improving its integration testing and CI/CD pipeline. Comfortable across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and tooling, he builds pragmatic automation that reduces review churn and surfaces the real-world impact of changes at scale. Known for a customer-first mindset, he pairs deep technical attention to detail with experience developing exam content and lab scenarios for HashiCorp certifications—evidence of his ability to translate complex systems into approachable learning and operational artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Programming Technology, Associates Computer Programming Technology at Bowling Green State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
gcp10
test-kitchen10
terraformer10
terraform10
cicd10
bash9
inspec9
networking7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-google-modules/terraform-google-network
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Sets up a new VPC network on Google Cloud
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gary focused on improving the repository's integration testing and CI/CD pipeline. Their contributions included migrating existing integration tests to Test Kitchen using kitchen-terraform and inspec-gcp plugins, which involved modifications to testing configurations and the introduction of testing scenarios. The user also made modifications to the CI pipeline configuration, and addressed environment variable handling, and incorporated teardown processes within the test execution. They further added the ability to delete default gateway routes using a custom script.
gcpvpcgooglenetworkinggoogle-cloud
glarizza/dotfiles
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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