Gary White
Principal Engineer at Verizon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary White is a Principal Engineer and cloud technologist with 11 years of experience building and scaling CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, and open source programs for enterprises like Wayfair and Verizon. He blends hands-on systems engineering (Terraform, Puppet, Kubernetes, Rust, Go) with program-level strategy—driving Wayfair’s maintained open source projects from 35% to 87% and migrating CI from GitLab to Buildkite to achieve 95th-percentile builds under 10 minutes. A seasoned OSS advocate and speaker (KubeCon, TremorCon, Cloud Foundry Summit), he contributes to projects such as Buildkite agent/docs and tremor-runtime, and led a notable rewrite of an OpenTelemetry demo from Go to Rust. Gary is adept at translating business risk into actionable automation—he tracked 5k projects and 1M+ dependencies to quantify vulnerability and licensing exposure across an organization. He mentors engineers, drives developer advocacy, and combines pragmatic architecture instincts with rapid iteration to deliver resilient, production-grade systems. Based in Boston, he pairs enterprise-scale impact with a curious, community-minded approach (memes and snacks included).
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Rivier UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Spanish, English
Github Skills (24)
markdown10
git10
build-script10
docker10
apidoc10
artifactory10
rs10
environment-variables10
dockers10
cicd10
api-documentation10
go10
api10
markdown-it10
versioning10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/agent
Feb 2019 - May 2020
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Gary implemented features to support artifact uploading and downloading using Artifactory, a common artifact repository. They developed Go code to interact with the Artifactory API, manage authentication, and handle file transfers. Additionally, the user addressed path formatting issues, integrated the job ID into the upload path to avoid collisions, and improved the overall reliability of the artifact upload process.
continuous-deploymentgolangbuild-jobsjobsenvironments
tremor-rs/tremor-runtime
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Main Tremor Project Rust Codebase
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 44 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the Tremor runtime project by implementing and improving build processes, versioning, and testing infrastructure. They focused on integrating git branch and hash information into the build process and the application's version output. Additionally, the user made updates to the Docker build process and build configurations, integrating Git information for more informative builds. They also addressed linting issues, improving code quality and maintainability.
tremor-queryrusttremor-languagescodebasetremor
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