Greg Schofield
Senior Software Engineer at Vercel
Orillia, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGreg Schofield is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling across startups and scale-ups. He has driven measurable platform improvements—halving CI times by rewriting orchestration services in Go, implementing GitOps for reproducible EKS clusters, and shipping ephemeral preview environments to speed reviews. Greg combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS networking, Terraform, and observability with practical security work such as SBOM generation and vulnerability remediation. A pragmatic DevOps lead and contributor to prominent open-source projects like Chef and Habitat core plans, he brings operational rigor to automation and packaging. Based in Orillia, Ontario, he’s equally comfortable leading teams and diving into low-level engineering details like custom DNS and SSH tooling that simplify developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing Computer Science at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (32)
package-management10
scripting10
package-manager-tool10
chef-client10
automation10
script10
packager10
package10
sh10
chef-solo10
automations10
package-manager10
shell10
devops10
build-automation9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Jul 2018 - Apr 2021
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Package Maintainer
DevOps Engineer & Package MaintainerContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 13 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on updating and adding core packages within the Habitat plan definitions. Their work included updating the Yarn package to a newer version, adding new plans for Sensu backend and agent, and introducing a plan for Ruby 3.0.1. They also addressed shell linting errors and ensured proper licensing. Additionally, the user upgraded the helm package.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
chef/chef
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Greg focused on improving the Chef Infra tool's functionality through the "knife ssh" feature. They added and modified features for SSH connection management, including PTY requests and configuration options. Furthermore, the user made enhancements related to the powershell package commands by adding user provided options.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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