Greg Boyington
Principal Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorGreg Boyington is a Principal Systems Development Engineer at AWS with 14 years of formal experience and a 30-year hands-on background spanning sysadmin, DevOps, backend engineering, and IT leadership. He specializes in socio-technical systems at the intersection of ethics, resiliency, human factors, and operations, helping teams design empathetic, safe, and scalable systems. At S3 Glacier he helped scale the business 100x while keeping operational budgets to a fraction of that growth, redefined the SysDE role across Amazon, and built training, interview, and career-development programs adopted company-wide. He has deep practical experience converting legacy architectures to horizontally scalable, CD-driven platforms and creating operator-centric practices like cohort-based oncall and resilience-focused postmortems. Greg pairs technical craftsmanship with people-focused leadership—he’s equally comfortable coaching engineers, advising VPs, or rebuilding a data-moving pipeline that processes petabytes daily. Still a self-described “cranky sysadmin,” he brings pragmatic skepticism, an allergy to dogma, and a knack for translating human problems into durable engineering solutions.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (21)
padding4
human-readable3
twine3
expressions3
regex2
bootstrapping2
nfa2
poster2
twitter2
python2
minecraft2
mastodon-api2
fabric2
pixelfed1
debian1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
evilchili/telisar-website
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
The website source for telisar.evilchi.li
Contributions:160 pushes in 4 years 5 months
evilchili/telisar
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Tools and Tomfoolery for D&D5e Campaigns
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
campaigns
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